Serving Two Markets

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 14, 2007 7:12 PM EDT
InfoWorld; By Zack Urlocker
Mail this story
Print this story

One of the challenges open source companies have is that you serve two distinct markets: your customers as well as non-paying community users. Paradoxically, the non-paying users can be the most vocal and demanding. Matt Asay blogs about this as the "Open Source Community's Double Standard on MySQL." I had not thought about it quite the way Matt has framed the discussion, but his observations ring true to me.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial; Groups: MySQL

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.