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Story: Bursting the proprietary-software bubble

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Pre and Post Tipping Point

I think Mark has it about right.

I have been in the Open Source trade for a decade or so and have seen two previous recessions in the UK IT industry. On both those occasions I was more deeply involved in IT training than in the delivery side and I took a pretty cold bath. When the dust settled and I got to the bottom of what happened, the situation was that people were seriously looking at Open Source as a strategy, but they had yet to reach the tipping point; the top of the hill as it were. The downward pressure on those businesses forced them back down the hill. They withdrew from all their Open Source projects for a while.

This time, it seems people are the other side of the tipping point, going down the other side of the hill. This time the downward pressure is pushing them further into their open source projects to try and capture some of the cost savings earlier than plan.

So guess what, this time I have little or nothing to do with the Linux training trade and its doing really well!

Life .. Don't talk to me about life ;-)

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