8/11/2005

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.