Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, emphasized the silver lining surrounding the current financial crisis at DLA Piper’s Global Technology Leaders Summit on Tuesday -- that innovation loves a crisis. Consequently the technology sector is uniquely positioned to take advantage of new opportunities created by the current economic crisis in the near-term when compared to other industries.
He also gave the pragmatic perspective of today’s innovators and entrepreneurs who frequently have little or no fund and turn to open source software because it’s free. He gave the example of Facebook which started by using MySQL for the site which embedded MySQL in the architecture of company's infrastructure. Open source products also are popular in universities because there’s no expense to license the software they’re teaching. For example, MySQL is the most widely taught database in university.
Trying to fight the movement to open-source software, Schwartz said, is like trying to fight gravity.
This reality will create opportunities for open source software companies. For example, most high-performance computing centers use only open source software.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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