Shai Agassi & SAP on Open Source...

Interesting perspective on Open Source from Shai Agassi, SAP Exec Board Member in charge of Product and Technology Group . For those of you who don't have the time to read the entire article, Shai's has clearly expressed his commitment to the Open Source movement. He sees it providing openness of source code for customers, developers, partners etc.; enabling innovation while protecting the author's ownership of the source code and offering commodity component stacks such as LAMP.

Next, it will be interesting to hear the perspective from innovators involved with Open Source startups. Obviously they don't have to worry about existing customers as SAP does and are highly motivated to create disruptive changes.