Comments on: The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?

By: Why the F22 Crashed and the iPad Took Off « Evil Fish

Why the F22 Crashed and the iPad Took Off « Evil Fish — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:04:41 +0000

[...] anti-competitive habits , either explicit or hidden that were common in past years. It also allows sharing of development costs across organizations. Younger generations are used to great user experience, and would not “go back” when [...]

By: The Open Source Year Ahead

The Open Source Year Ahead — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:43:43 +0000

[...] Open source is now the maturity phase, and it is interesting to look at how compares open source and cloud computing (courtesy of Google Insight for search). [...]

By: Meet the New Kingmakers: Same as the Old Kingmakers – tecosystems

Meet the New Kingmakers: Same as the Old Kingmakers – tecosystems — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:50:17 +0000

[...] Think big picture. Consider, for a moment, the component pieces of the venerable LAMP stack. Linux is the de facto alternative to Windows on the server and Apple in mobile, Apache is powering nearly sixty percent of the world’s websites, MySQL is the most popular relational database on the planet – important enough to hold up Oracle’s acquisition, and as for the dynamic languages, well, even Microsoft has been compelled to pimp them. Open source has so thoroughly transitioned to the mainstream, in fact, that some projects are exhibiting symptoms typical to mature businesses [coverage]. [...]

By: Christopher Baus

Christopher Baus — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:16:11 +0000

That quote by Ballmer really struck me.

That’s the type of question the company should be asking. Will there be a third?

How do you replace the revenue of Windows and Office? I wrote a quick response to it: http://baus.net/will-there-be-a-third

By: Bursting Bubbles & the “golden age of open source?” « commons re:source™

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:38:13 +0000

[...] post begins with a reference to Simon’s post (and Stephen O’Grady’s The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline? post which Simon also discussed) and comes to the conclusion that we are witnessing ”the [...]

By: i, quaid › Yay! More new people to play with

i, quaid › Yay! More new people to play with — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:06:45 +0000

[...] community and collaboration. He and Aslett refer to Stephen O’Grady’s post, “The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?“, which is rich with trend analysis over the years to show that some projects are in [...]

By: Pensare al prossimo passo prima di completare il primo « Idl3's Blog

Pensare al prossimo passo prima di completare il primo « Idl3's Blog — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:11:35 +0000

[...] source. Ecco ad esempio cosa ha scritto Stephen O’Grady nell’articolo “The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?“: “Il business legato alla vendita di software open source e’ piccolo confronto [...]

By: ✍ Is the “Open Source Bubble” Over? « Wild Webmink

✍ Is the “Open Source Bubble” Over? « Wild Webmink — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:01:14 +0000

[...] been numerous reports about it, not least from the New York Times, but one that caught my eye was the meta-analysis from analyst Stephen O’Grady. O’Grady is characteristically detail-rich and his article is packed with Google Trends [...]

By: ChaTo

ChaTo — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:19:46 +0000

I don’t know; if I search for “software” in Google Trends I also see a clear trend downwards. I think it is just that some changes get ingrained into the discourse and become invisible. That is how success looks like, I guess. http://www.google.com/trends?q=software

By: Alex Rollin

Alex Rollin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:58:10 +0000

This is a terrible way to judge whether something is “not startup.” You spent a lot of time on this. Too bad you couldn’t build anything reusable instead. Like code, you know? Or community? You are just making a mess in my opinion.