When I started writing this I wrote “Last week Opscode came” obviously now that is “A couple of months ago Opscode came with a bunch of announcements … one of them being that they are also going to support the Open Source Chef .. rather than only their own platform.
I’d love to see more companies formally do this .. Over the past couple of years I’ve had numerous situations where organizations where happy to pay for support to an commercial backer of Open Source software… but they were not interested in , software updates, fancy dashboards , unneeded features.
There is this constant discussion about Open Core vs Open Source vs Proprietary Software , Fauxpen Source, Open Source Business models etc.. you probably know all the usual suspects involved, first up lets agree that nobody will ever agree on what’s best, (off course it’s pure open source.. ) , but one of the important aspects is to know what values are important for you and your customers
Simon Phipps thinks we should build a scorecard that lists the different values we attach to a certain level of openness
For years now I’ve been struggling to educate the market on the fact that the business around open source software is not about software. It’s about solutions.
Let me repeat that .. it’s not about selling software …
It’s about solutions
And obviously FLOSS is the Ideal platform to build value for your customers
By now everybody and their neigbour has realized that indeed Everything is a funky dns problem, Frank is giving talks about it at ZooCamp, and Serge figured out the hard way the downtime of planet.geekdinner.be was due to a dns problem :)
But I told you different things before … and some of you listened others are still reinventing the wheel as we go …
Matt A. points out that the OpenBravo folks realized that one should try to build on top of Open Source projects rather than modify core code ..