{"id":114,"date":"2007-05-16T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T16:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/16\/open-source-think-tank\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T09:40:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T16:40:01","slug":"open-source-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/16\/open-source-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Think Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Sal Darji, a couple of reports from the recent Open Source Think Tank conference:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A pdf <a title=\"Olliance Group\" href=\"http:\/\/thinktank.olliancegroup.com\/ostt2007report.pdf\">report <\/a>from the Olliance Group, which sponsored the conference, and;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Hyperic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperic.com\/\">Javier Soltero<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Open Source Think Tank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperic.com\/blog\/hyperic\/2007\/05\/09\/open-source-think-tank-redux\/\">notes<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Open source per se is not especially attractive to corporate IT shops; lower cost is attractive, but enterprise customers don&#8217;t really care about the development process, as long as the offering solves a problem they have.<\/li>\n<li>You still need a sales force and all the support (pre-sales, POC, etc.) if you&#8217;re going to sell to corporate IT; the promise of the grassroots adoption approach is a lie.<\/li>\n<li>The enterprise is still hung up on the &#8216;viral&#8217; nature of the GPL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This third point is especially interesting to me, because I run up against it all the time and it&#8217;s not widely enough acknowledged.\u00a0 I think it may be an instance of the gap between enterprise IT and the rest of the IT community (by which I mean startups, VCs, Silicon Valley, and the vocal blogosphere).\u00a0 Corporate America, at least, still doesn&#8217;t understand or trust the GPL.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not talking here about GPLv3; that&#8217;s a detail that&#8217;s lost in the noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Sal Darji, a couple of reports from the recent Open Source Think Tank conference: A pdf report from the Olliance Group, which sponsored the conference, and; Javier Soltero&#8216;s notes: Open source per se is not especially attractive to corporate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/16\/open-source-think-tank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-1Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}