Comments on: Polese opens up on open-source plans

Industry vet Kim Polese reveals details of start-up SpikeSource's bid to provide support for open-source software on corporate networks.

This woman has no clue.

I recently read an interview with Kim Polese on her company Spike Source and it read like a 5 year old essay. She used big words like ?pretty?. It seems she has very little knowledge of open source software and the community that surrounds it. She talks about open source as if it is extremely difficult to figure out and maintain. This is quiet the opposite. I would consider my experience to be moderate to expert and I had no problem, with a little reading, figuring out open source software. The question I ask is this; if my IT staff cannot figure out Apache, do I need them working for me? The answer is no of course. She still seems to hold on to the .COM era of ?we provide a service no one will need or use?. I just wonder how she got the money to back this insane idea. Hmmm. On a side note; there are a few companies that already do this for free.

[Mario Nogueira]

Economies of scale and econommies of scope

Ok, keeping your own open source IT infrastructure may be rellatively easy. But, what about costs and time savings, specially in comnies with gigantic IT infra-structures?

It's very easy to push a button. What about pushing one million buttons? It's still easy, but really time consuming.

So, companies like SpikeSource and SourceLabs are saying "leave this drudgery to us". Of course, they may focus on customer with really big IT infrastructures so that the economies of scope and of scale of its management are significant and thus, good candidates for this kind outsourcing.

The fact that the focus is on open source software only increases the potential aforementioned economies, adding value to the service itself.

[Mario Nogueira]

Economies of scale and economies of scope

Ok, keeping your own open source IT infrastructure may be rellatively easy. But, what about costs and time savings, specially in comnies with gigantic IT infra-structures?

It's very easy to push a button. What about pushing one million buttons? It's still easy, but really time consuming.

So, companies like SpikeSource and SourceLabs are saying "leave this drudgery to us". Of course, they may focus on customer with really big IT infrastructures so that the economies of scope and of scale of its management are significant and thus, good candidates for this kind outsourcing.

The fact that the focus is on open source software only increases the potential aforementioned economies, adding value to the service itself.