SoCal CTO
MARCH 5, 2007
However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. I understand his frustration.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 11, 2009
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.
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The Next Web
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). Big frameworks and enterprise CMS are starting to loose loosing the game against open source software and systems that were initially very basic tools built by visionary kids. Similar stuff is happening in the e-commerce arena.
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. However, a severe budget limitation may tip toward a platform with ready-to-use open source components that can be leveraged as-is or with minimal tweaks. Those requests had better be worth it!
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. The Past (1985-2002).
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