Following I’ll post an insight to three IT-companies that are using open source as part of their business strategy and are greatly benefiting from it.
MindTouch
http://www.mindtouch.com/
An interesting little it-tiger. The company offers collaboration platform for firms, gaining its revenue from segmenting its product line. Basically its sells its products but maintains the ability for a free download of its CORE product.
MindTouch has been currently stated to own the third place in communication platforms, right after IBM and Microsoft.
More information:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:ls5NnWgualUJ:news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10282668-16.html+companies+benefiting+from+open+source&cd=3&hl=et&ct=clnk&gl=ee
Sun Microsystems
Company known to many. Although today Sun is under Oracle, who bought the firm, many believe that Sun’s successful open source products like OpenOffice and MySQL will continue to boost, even under new management.
More information:
http://www.ostatic.org/blog/recession-a-boon-for-open-source
Asterisk
http://www.asterisk.org/
Linux for VoiP. The company offers a call-center like software platform for firms of different sizes, gaining its revenue from support and training features.
More information:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2006/tc20060707_042679.htm
PS: Symbian
Although this news is “fresh out of the oven”, Symbian is implementing Open Source to its development also.
More information:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9975902-16.html
No comments:
Post a Comment