I was reading this OStatic interview with Ken Drachnik , marketing manager for open source software infrastructure products at Sun and a co-founder of GlassFish (Sun’s open-source application server), and it made me wonder if it’s time for some consolidation in the open-source stack. Yes, I’m the one who argues against consolidation in enterprise software , but another part of me wonders why we spend time reinventing wheels….
Yes, we have de facto winners in most software categories: SugarCRM in CRM, JBoss in application servers in enterprise adoption (with Tomcat winning out for unpaid deployments), MySQL in the database market, etc. Think of how much better these projects would be if we concentrated development on these, rather than creating a range of lightly developed and even more lightly used open-source alternatives.
I guess my underlying question is, “Do we need a myriad of open-source alternatives to the proprietary sof...
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