post1.JPGAdopters and investors are questioning the economic viability of the open source model. Open source solutions are now becoming a choice of large projects and even by conservative businesses. They are now concerned with this question when a few years back this would not have even reached the discussion table. Now more than ever before, even the conservative IT shops are starting to seriously look at when and where open source softwares would make sense to them.

There are some issues that argue that OSS is not long term viable because of the lack of a viable economic model. Successful and expanding implementations of OSS in the mainstream IT world continue to disprove this assumption. Open source does not have a unique business model or a singular model for that matter. The advantage of OSS model is that it can be leveraged within a wide array of profit, non-profit, indirect and direct revenue business model strategies.

Source: eosj.com