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April 17, 2005
open source liability - no problem
Ray Lane, the man who helped Oracle come back from tough times during the early 90's is now a VC at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He put together a panel at a recent Open Source Business Conference, where the challenges of established enterprise software were discussed.
He said CIO's
"are looking for alternatives, and open source may offer them greener pastures" adding, "Their interest in open source is not just about economics, but about higher quality, better participation, and improved responsiveness". Prescient indeed.
There is another side to the Open Source story these days though, it's reaching an almost fadish state of success.
Posted by admin at April 17, 2005 02:42 PM