A valuable business model was built around its own - or closed source - software. Perhaps the best example is the operating system of Microsoft. However, in the early days of computing, many people regularly common software, changing the source code along with improvements or additions to other users. Such open source development again became prominent with the increasing popularity of Linux, the operating system is open source strong enough to win the approval of the corporate and more widely used. This case, as companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems to use open source software in 2001, and the challenges and opportunities that are opening up the development of the software is for the hardware and software manufacturers and users. "Hide
by Robert A. Burgelman, Philip Meza Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 34 pages. Publication Date: November 28, 2001. Prod. #: SM85-PDF-ENG
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