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This post by Dan Kusnetzky highlights one of the things that open source and free software projects have to contend with: Free isn't enough to carry the day.
A key challenge faced by any open source project is getting mindshare. It?s a truism that if decision makers don?t know about a product, they won?t consider it. If they don?t consider it, they?ll select other approaches. There are too many people shouting out their own Xen messages.
Virtualization vendor VMware is the latest company to join The Linux Foundation, a national organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. While there are several software vendors in the consortium, VMware is the first to focus solely on virtualization and cloud computing.
By Raj Bala
Trends in data storage and server computing are changing rapidly, and there are some unexpected shakeups to come, with open source implications. Hardware continues to get cheaper. Bandwidth isn?t quite free yet, but it?s hardly expensive. High-quality open source software now abounds in enterprise data centers, but grid computing solutions remain half-baked and hardly commoditized.
These trends are all behind why I think Yahoo! and EMC are set for a future technology collision, given their respective philosophies--and open source is too.
