It’s actually open source software that’s eating the world (VentureBeat)

For a far-outside view, it's hard to beat thisVentureBeat article, wherein a venture capitalist talks about how"open-source companies" are taking over. "The OSS companies thatwill be pillars of IT in the future are the companies that leverage asuccessful OSS project for sales, marketing, and engineering prioritizationbut have a product and business strategy that includes some proprietaryenhancements. They've figured out that customers are more than happy to payfor an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may havesecurity, management, or integration enhancements and come withsupport. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionalityproprietary won't alienate the community supporting the project the waysomething such as a performance enhancement would."