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SaaS - The Right Business Model for Open Source?
What does Software as a Service (SaaS) have to do with open source? Not much, you might think. SaaS, as you probably know, is a delivery - and business - model for software that has been proving quite disruptive to the traditional software business - just as the open source model has been. The two combined may turn out to be even more so.
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A great article on the benefits of the combined technologies. There are many companies that are starting to realize these benefits. If you notice, companies like salesforce.com, are starting to have "open source strategies" and partner with vendors with this model.

For example, we use saleforce and integrate using a product called Jitterbit to do our integration work. Jitterbit is a stronger offering than what we saw in the commercial space, and due to its low pricepoint for the offering and services, our budget is safe.


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Lewis Cunningham wrote: On a related note, I recently created a database survey to learn some database usage patterns between commercial databases and OSDBs. I plan to release the data openly, as well as my initial analysis, upon completion of the survey. I would love it if you and your readers would participate. It's j...
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