Open Source Vendor Positioning
"As I was thinking about the way companies (mostly software vendors) position towards Open Source, I realized I could try to categorize them. Here is what I came up with:
The truly committed
The mixed-codebase
The pragmatics
The anti-strategist
The headless chickens
The in-denial
The anti-OSS "
Read more in this post from the JBoss Matrix and also this analysis from Sadagopan that points to this post from Rajesh.