Michael Dolan Dot Com

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Open Source May Stifle Excitement – Not Innovation

Gartner gathered a lot of press saying open source stifles progress and innovation in the technology market. Today as I read about the new IBM z9 mainframe, over at The Register and thought about something – open source may stifle excitement not innovation… With open source, we know the roadmap, we can see the developer builds as they progress… What’s missing with open source is that “new product announcement” that wows the crowd and no one expected. Although come to think of it I also saw a post that Windows Vista has already been pirated – This lack of excitement may not be just an open source issue. I wonder if Gartner will also declare MSFT is killing innovation now…