Does open source matter?
As I said last week, I can't understand why folks want to vilify Oracle for buying up open source companies such as Sleepycat and Innobase. By the same token, I can't really fault those companies for selling out, either. For small software companies, getting bought has always been a viable exit strategy.
It seems that, although some misgivings may remain, the open source community is coming to terms with the realities of the software business. Whereas at one time an open source software company might have been booed out of the room for charging license fees for commercial deployments, these days that practice is becoming the norm, as Matt Asay observed in a recent blog post.
But what of that? If a business model that says "develop for free but pay to deploy" is acceptable, then what does enterprise IT need open source for, anyway?
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