Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 06, 2002 08:13 AM
Is there any light in the tunnel for companies developing open source software or are most of them still heading towards bancruptsy?
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Most of them are and have been doing quite well. It's the large IPOs that are having problems. The large IPOs (Red Hat, LNUX, etc) tried to do Linux like you do proprietary software. Even though they said "services", if you look at their business model, they were way too focused on applications. The ones doing well are the smaller companies developing customer solutions for customers. They are usually smaller companies (i.e. - not publicly traded), but doing well.
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Re:Was just wondering.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 06, 2002 08:13 AM*********
Most of them are and have been doing quite well. It's the large IPOs that are having problems. The large IPOs (Red Hat, LNUX, etc) tried to do Linux like you do proprietary software. Even though they said "services", if you look at their business model, they were way too focused on applications. The ones doing well are the smaller companies developing customer solutions for customers. They are usually smaller companies (i.e. - not publicly traded), but doing well.
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