Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 25, 2002 11:52 PM
An OSS customer that's so important in its market that the third parties have to accomodate it. Here's Dreamworks _telling_ their software suppliers "We want it on Linux", and the suppliers having to listen. That kind of market power alone is worth whatever work went into the project. RH & hp know this, and are fully entitled to crow over this major success. This is one market that is NOT 0wn3d by the Empire, which is _exactly_ what OSS needs right now.
This is a very far cry from what happend a couple of years ago when the Civil Engineering consultants I was working for tried to get the Bently (Microstation mechanical CAD) people to port their UNIX code to Linux. Their response was that they literally had maybe a dozen requests for such a product. At $50K each (the going price for a MicroStation license), this represented $600,000. We offered to do the port for them, we figured that if we could get the UNIX source (under NDA, if that's what it would take) we could recompile it for Linux in way under a man-year. We offered them _free_ development, in exchange for, at most, a couple of licenses for the finished product. Bently totally refused to even listen. The mechanical CAD market _is_ 0wn3d by the Empire.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 25, 2002 11:52 PMThis is a very far cry from what happend a couple of years ago when the Civil Engineering consultants I was working for tried to get the Bently (Microstation mechanical CAD) people to port their UNIX code to Linux. Their response was that they literally had maybe a dozen requests for such a product. At $50K each (the going price for a MicroStation license), this represented $600,000. We offered to do the port for them, we figured that if we could get the UNIX source (under NDA, if that's what it would take) we could recompile it for Linux in way under a man-year. We offered them _free_ development, in exchange for, at most, a couple of licenses for the finished product. Bently totally refused to even listen.
The mechanical CAD market _is_ 0wn3d by the Empire.
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