via Matthew Aslett

Matthew is bringing a good example of a project which wouldn’t really benefit from an opensourcing approach. And explains why.

SteelEye is well-known as a Linux-related company and does contribute to the Linux development process, but its software is not actually open source. According to SteelEye’s president and CEO, Paul Adams, that situation is unlikely to change in the near future.

[…] While the company is keen to contribute to the open source development process, it is unconvinced that opening up the code to its core projects would be worthwhile. Key to the debate is whether it would be possible to create a thriving community around the company’s high availability clustering technology.

[…] Clearly open source is not always the solution, and the ability to generate a thriving community should be a key consideration for any vendor.