[Fwd: WHY LINUX COMPANIES GO BROKE?]

[Amit Sathe <nsathe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is from the pune linux users' group..

amit

Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:

> WHY LINUX COMPANIES GO BROKE?
> The Open Source business model may make for an interesting college thesis.
> But, when it comes to making some serious money, Linux companies are a
> disaster in progress. A case in point is TurboLinux. The Silicon Valley
> company has a great solution to run everything from a single Linux
> workstation to clusters of powerful Linux servers running large
> enterprises. But, as for revenues, it just seems to be drawing a blank.
> http://www.ciol.com/content/news/trends/100111003.asp?nl=ctd-nov10
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