Open Source 2.0: Tim O’Reilly

Very good and interesting presention of Tim O’Reilly. Disturbing in a way, because he is already two steps ahead.

Some notes:

• The 5 characteristics of Open Source 2.0:
1. architectures of participation beyond software development (web 2.0)
2. open source licenses are obsolete
• software is rather performed than distributed
• not just source code, but also data/database
3. asymmetric competition
• craiglist, top sites on internet 2005 – rank 7, with 18 employees
4. operations as advantage
• “in the future, being on someone’s platform will mean being hosted on their infrastructure”
• pay more attention to open source tools that support scalable operations
5. open data
• mashups are based on open data ; who is owning these data?
• creative commons
• the new face of open source

• = framework
• = clonable web apps
• = mashups, web services

we don’t yet know

• what the platform of the future will look like
• what the sources of lock-in and competitive advantage will be

think ahead, don’t think back

Cross-posted on the ecenter solutions blog.