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By nivanov
via jroller.com
Published: Feb 08 2008 / 01:29

Having been on both sides of this “issue” I can offer certain insights on what many commercial software companies do to fight off open-source competition (I’ve seen direct presentations, done them myself, and have heard them live). Very few companies will directly admit these practices but many on the commercial software side does it.
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willcode4beer replied ago:

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How to fight off open source competition? Make a better product :-)

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Dmitriy Setrakyan replied ago:

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Hm. That is assuming that Open Source is a bad product by default, which has not been the case for years already with emergence of Spring, JBoss, Grails, Mule, GridGain, etc...

Nowdays it is very tough for commercial companies to compete with OpenSource ones (of course I am talking about Professionally Supported Open Source).

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William Louth replied ago:

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I think many commercial companies have competed very well against open source competition. A very good example of this is Oracle (Tangosol) Coherence.

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