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How Open Source Will Prosper in the Cloud

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Ronak Mehta
How Open Source Will Prosper in the Cloud

The price of software has always been a problem for both suppliers and the customer. Before the arrival of the Internet, the price of software on computer servers was approximately proportional to the cost of hardware. In the days of mainframes and minicomputers, it seemed rational, but as the servers became an isolated Intel machine in a high-end cluster, the situation became complicated and it was very possible for expensive software, such as base products Big Name data, The software pricing structure could limit or determine the choice of hardware.

This has evolved to such an extent that, for example, Oracle database technology has been specifically designed to run on economical standard servers (through Oracle RAC technology). The idea is that if the cost of the equipment is low, the general price of the ticket is lower. Such developments would be appropriate if all suppliers remained fully in phase in terms of pricing policy. But that does not happen.

Business technology buyers are struggling to establish rational commercial networks at reasonable prices. The license is a potential nightmare that completely distorts costs. The disorder is further aggravated by the advent of virtualization, which further disturbs the already supersaturated mud waters.

Once a seller obtains a monopoly position or even a significant leverage position, he tends to maintain the price of his product and seeks to trivialize everything around him. The battle is played in your network. In the case of software publishers, if their sales increase, their unit costs are significantly reduced, but the customer sees few benefits.

That's one of the reasons why open source is important and that companies really should have the policy to use it to some extent, and I'm not just talking about Linux here, I'm talking about the LAMP stack more than the JBOSS stack more A bit of Open Office and everything that can bring benefits. This will help keep providers of software private and, by the way, much of the open-source software is quality software.

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