The 'stack' in the Open-Source environment, for products and services just keeps on growing!
As this continues ... there will be less money to be made from "packaged stuff"
Greg Stein, Chairman of Apache Group and Google engineer, said: "All of your software [will be] free".
This would 'translate' to: paying 'someone' for 'assistance' that can derive benefits from the 'free stuff'. This is predicted to happen in the next five to ten years.
Even today, 'free' (someone is paying) software projects have overtaken commercial efforts, when it comes to functionality! WHY? Simple, there are many more developers in the open-source community!
Providing 'Assistance-services' for functions such as installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrading, testing and customization, is where the 'bread-n-butter' will be found!
Stein further said, "As our systems grow more and more complex, more and more assistance is
necessary."
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