It’s actually open source software that’s eating the world (VentureBeat)
For a far-outside view, it's hard to beat this
VentureBeat article, wherein a venture capitalist talks about how
"open-source companies" are taking over. "The OSS companies that
will be pillars of IT in the future are the companies that leverage a
successful OSS project for sales, marketing, and engineering prioritization
but have a product and business strategy that includes some proprietary
enhancements. They’ve figured out that customers are more than happy to pay
for an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may have
security, management, or integration enhancements and come with
support. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionality
proprietary won’t alienate the community supporting the project the way
something such as a performance enhancement would."