What does the future look like for commercial for-profit software companies (ISVs)? ...especially smaller, emerging software companies that are facing free/open source competition in their software category.
What is your advice? What references would you recommend reading?
Is it possible for a software company to be based on one of the free source/open source business models and still operate on a for-profit basis (with a business plan that is based on more than just a support and services model)?
Michael Herman
Founder and CTO
Parallelspace Corporation
http://www.parallelspace.net