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Joel Osserman and 20 other people answered this question

What are some of the best small business pbx phone systems?

We are a small dealerhip and while we are right up on internet technology, we had a horrible experience with fiber optic and so returned to Verizon wired phone service.
For 22 years we used the Southwestern bell KSU 246 system with 4 FS800/900 headsets. ... more

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May 4, 2012

Alvaro Cervantes and 5 other people answered this question

Why do projects based on open source products often ultimately fail?

I really like this kind of honest and very knowledgeable discussion, love intelligent people. However, i think we should define our problem first, in a kind of philosophy manner, that is from a global perspective (please pardon me for my English writing, I am a ... more

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April 25, 2012

Soumya Prakash Dhar answered this question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What are the major differences between marketing open source versus more traditional products?

I would think based on my experience that it would be easier - for one their are no lock in fees, updates and upgrades are often free. Besides all that there is often an hacker credo behind the product which means that there are usually ... more

April 21, 2012

Jim Zemlin answered this question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What about promoting linux in schools, is any special linux version prepared for schools?

There are a wide variety of versions of Linux available for schools. Check out Edubuntu: http://www.edubuntu.org/ or the One Laptop Per Child Project: http://one.laptop.org/. more

April 21, 2012

Jim Zemlin answered this question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

Does the GPL (as opposed to the Apache license for instance) hurt the open source brand?

Both are widely accepted and commercially adopted licenses. I don't think it makes much of a difference. It is really a matter of developer choice as to which license they pick. We find that complying with open source licenses is simple and low cost. For ... more

April 20, 2012

Scott Albro answered this question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What are some open source brands that marketers should be looking at right now?

There are a few open source projects or brands that marketers should study:
1. Linux - From a marketing perspective, Linux is interesting in a number of different ways: it has a declared position and mission; the Linus Torvalds brand is incredibly important; and there ... more

April 20, 2012

William Palmer asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

In the extreme, if the software world becomes totally open source, what is the incentive for new development to take place?

April 20, 2012

Otto Konopa answered this question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

How do you scale from part-time OSS product development to full time, sustainable? Especially when the workload is ahead of the payback?

At Red Hat (shameless plug) we rely on community-driven innovation. Our business model rests on the ability to take bleeding edge tech, and productize it for enterprise, mass adoption. We manage a communities that drive more than $5 Billion in R&D, engineering on a scale ... more

April 20, 2012

Scott Albro asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What's the driving factor behind the rise of open source?

April 20, 2012

Nathanael Jones asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

How do I make an open source project sustainable from a business perspectivewithout destroying my open-source values?

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Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What are the biggest open source projects right now and what do their brands represent?

April 20, 2012

Scott Albro asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

Which open source vendors are great at marketing?

April 20, 2012

Craig Rosenberg asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

How do big, traditional vendors handle their open source marketing?

April 20, 2012

Craig Rosenberg asked a question at this roundtable

Marketing and Open Source [4/20 @ 11 am]

What are the one or two open source marketing strategies that can/should be adopted by others?

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