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Sales and marketing for open source – same difference

Matthew Aslett, April 1, 2010 @ 6:32 am ET

Pentaho’s CTO James Dixon has been defending the open core licensing model against criticism from myself and Gartner’s Brian Prentice. Specifically, James states: “Matt Aslett (451) and Brian Prentice (Gartner) talk about code contributions and R&D practices but rarely mention S&M”. He goes on to explain how he sees fundamental differences between the sales and [...]

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