Individual and enterprise users of software today have many options for meeting their computing and networking requirements. Open source software is one of them, and it is often selected because of the broader choices open source can deliver. There are a number of ways software vendors can take advantage of this trend through an understanding of open source business strategies. The ideas discussed in this paper provide powerful examples of new software services and business models that leverage open source.
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