Business Strategies (Products, Technology, Marketing & Sales)

Compiere, the leading Open Source ERP vendor, announced today that it is being acquired by Indiana based Consona Corporation. This provides further evidence to what I alluded to in one of my earlier posts about SaaS stealing Open Source‘ thunder. It would not come as a  surprise to me if more open source application vendors […]

Open Source software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) represent the two real disruptions in the arena of enterprise software. In the last decade both have experienced real success and challenged the inertia that persisted in the enterprise software controlled by proprietary vendors. New business models, Product offerings have provided consumers with choices on both the price-performance as […]

Over the last decade Open Source technologies have made major strides in maturity and presented a credible alternative to the proprietary software vendors. Just as they make inroads into various aspects of enterprise IT landscape, we have started seeing a spate of acquisitions of those open source companies by those very “nasty” commercial software vendors. […]

In the last decade Open Source software has found its way into every company in some shape or form. Adoption of open source software range from embedding a open source component into a new software product, to using Open source system management products to manage the IT infrastructure. In addition to pooling together the creativity […]