Comments on: On Hybrid Source: Of course people buy tools http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/09/17/on-hybrid-source-of-course-people-buy-tools/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DinisCruz http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/09/17/on-hybrid-source-of-course-people-buy-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-541897 DinisCruz Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:00:09 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/?p=2239#comment-541897 <p>Great analysys from James RT Good write-up on the Business of open source: ‘On Hybrid Open Source’ <a href="http://bit.ly/3EMvQm" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/3EMvQm</a> @mjasay @monkchips</p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://twitter.com/DinisCruz/statuses/4073874522" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></i></p> Great analysys from James RT Good write-up on the Business of open source: ‘On Hybrid Open Source’ http://bit.ly/3EMvQm @mjasay @monkchips

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]]> By: Stephen Walli http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/09/17/on-hybrid-source-of-course-people-buy-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-541857 Stephen Walli Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:19:14 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/?p=2239#comment-541857 James: Thanks for the commentary. I agree with your Levitt commentary. (I used to buy a lot of books because they represented the person I wanted to be.) I like the Levitt quote more for the shock value of reminding a company that what they're selling isn't name-of-their-own-god-like-technology but rather a solution to a customer's problem. It's the difference between core value proposition (outward customer focus) and the core competencies (inward focus) that enable the value proposition. Microsoft wasn't a software company to its customers, they were a business appliance company that enabled business people to break the chains and the wait with corporate IT departments. The core competency was software. Indeed today Microsoft really does the certified warranted binary (competency) better than anyone when you consider the size of the test matrix they need to exercise (OEMs, ISVs, devices). But people think Red Hat some how invented certified warranted binary support as an "open source business model". James: Thanks for the commentary. I agree with your Levitt commentary. (I used to buy a lot of books because they represented the person I wanted to be.)

I like the Levitt quote more for the shock value of reminding a company that what they’re selling isn’t name-of-their-own-god-like-technology but rather a solution to a customer’s problem. It’s the difference between core value proposition (outward customer focus) and the core competencies (inward focus) that enable the value proposition.

Microsoft wasn’t a software company to its customers, they were a business appliance company that enabled business people to break the chains and the wait with corporate IT departments. The core competency was software. Indeed today Microsoft really does the certified warranted binary (competency) better than anyone when you consider the size of the test matrix they need to exercise (OEMs, ISVs, devices). But people think Red Hat some how invented certified warranted binary support as an “open source business model”.

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]]> By: mjasay http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/09/17/on-hybrid-source-of-course-people-buy-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-541839 mjasay Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:37:36 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/?p=2239#comment-541839 <p>Good write-up on the business of open source RT @monkchips: On Hybrid Source: Of course people buy tools <a href="http://bit.ly/3EMvQm" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/3EMvQm</a></p> <p><i>This comment was originally posted on <a href="http://twitter.com/mjasay/statuses/4052195428" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a></i></p> Good write-up on the business of open source RT @monkchips: On Hybrid Source: Of course people buy tools http://bit.ly/3EMvQm

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