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2007 05 15

Understanding the New Software World;

Red Hat: Grasping The Open Source Software Concept

See, it's not really a software company, in that its margins (should it mature) won't resemble what people are used to with companies like Microsoft and Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL). That's because it doesn't sell software, it sells services on software.

http://s5h.net/u?zf617
Indeed, but the author fails to realise that the whole industry is going to evolve towards this model. That's why SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others pull money from their safe, or even use dirty tricks. Also from /. today: Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ Intersting little benchmark...
http://s5h.net/u?zf8c0