[CCID News] On October 16th, the Sun Microsystems and other technical companies have recently successively "contribute to the open source community" part of their own products, is it for generosity and greatness? ? I am afraid it is not the case, and the reason why it must have its specific motivation and strategy. Dai Wei Smith, Vice President of Gartner, told the newsfactor, "These manufacturers use open source as a competitor, and the source code of the open part of the product is just a moment." He said, "Most manufacturers only use open code as the whole code. Part of the software strategy and do this in the necessary time, and the company intends to completely open code is almost one. "Meet your own needs? In order to win a reputation that can integrate into the open system, manufacturers must contribute a little value, and it seems that it is not the purpose of interest, and Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC system software project. Kusnetzky said, "For example, IBM just provides some of the necessary codes that make Linux running on its ZSERIES, which is not helpful for open source sports, and purely profitable is a starting point." Collaboration with other manufacturers can be greatly Reduce the development cost of system software and make an open code. Kusnetzky added, "providers are very smart, supporting a world-class UNIX system requires at least $ 100 million a year, while the industry is shared by their engineering maintenance costs." Taking me for the main strategy listed company I have to pay attention to my own image everywhere, and large sellers have seen the connection between open source products and the so-called virtues, but they don't mean that they have no selfishness for this open organization. Yankee Group Application Architecture and Software Engineering Senior Analyst Dana Gardner said, "manufacturers are only passionate about the advertising effects, accounting for the upper wind in competition, and there will be no loss on their revenue." He said "So far, the number of codes contributed is still insignificant." "Gartner's Smith said that" manufacturers will still use open codes when competing in companies that mainly rely on commercial software business competition. " Yang Ji Group's Gardner believes that the main providers will find that open code exercise can save costs. In this sense, they need to cultivate open communities, not just some postures.
