Cnet – Years ago I proclaimed open source would never be relevant in the application market. Now I work for an open-source applications company.
Lesson? It’s generally not a good idea to underestimate open source’s potency.
To wit, here are three “Who would have thought open source could do that?” announcements that recently hit my RSS reader:
NovusEdge is demoing open-source energy management for “massive commercial buildings.” OpenRemote does open-source home automation, but this suggests the idea can take on a different scale.
Human resource professionals spend time and money tracking job applicants. Well, now they can save their money by using open-source applicant-tracking applications. People used to say open source could only commodify broad application markets. I don’t think this qualifies…
