Re: Hal's new white paper
Tim O'Reilly <[email protected]>
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On Mar 28, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: > > Amusing that they quote Websphere as an example of commercial s/w that > runs on Linux, when Websphere is based on Apache. But WebSphere does have many commercial components as well. It's a classic example of one model for how to commercialize open source: wrap a bunch of free and proprietary components together into an inseparable whole, and sell that. Much the same model as OS X, just in another sector of the industry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 707-827-7000 http://www.oreilly.com (company), http://tim.oreilly.com (personal)