Friday, November 11, 2005
? Who is threatened by open source now? SAP | Open Source | ZDNet.com
? Who is threatened by open source now? SAP | Open Source | ZDNet.com: "Getting in front of open source and defying it is like getting in front of a freight train. But SAP has little choice."
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Good rhetoric, but will it work? Doubtful. Companies don't buy rhetoric, they don't install rhetoric. They buy and install solutions. They look to things like Total Cost of Ownership. Scaled open source projects may still be vulnerable there, because most have not yet scaled. But they are scaling, fast, and no matter how fast SAP sails the community, together, is sailing faster.
Agassi also called Oracle names, names like "pirate." But it's actually SAP that should be the pirate right now, stealing enterprise customers who must transition now out of the products Oracle bought, and are thus vulnerable to a sound sales pitch.
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Good rhetoric, but will it work? Doubtful. Companies don't buy rhetoric, they don't install rhetoric. They buy and install solutions. They look to things like Total Cost of Ownership. Scaled open source projects may still be vulnerable there, because most have not yet scaled. But they are scaling, fast, and no matter how fast SAP sails the community, together, is sailing faster.
Agassi also called Oracle names, names like "pirate." But it's actually SAP that should be the pirate right now, stealing enterprise customers who must transition now out of the products Oracle bought, and are thus vulnerable to a sound sales pitch.
