How can a small business benefit from Open source?
Satya: Let’s say you have One Lakh Rupees to start your business with, you need to build your infrastructure and you need to buy your software licenses. You will spend about 75 thousand to buy the various licenses and you have 25 thousand to start your business. In the open source alternative, you have 1 lakh to start you business straight away. Limitation for proprietary software? Satya: Most proprietary software is becoming open source now. So far Jboss has had 12 million downloads and if even 1% of them have seen the source code, we have 120,000 people who have looked at it. It is unthinkable for code in proprietary software to be seen and checked by so many people. Microsoft uses their heft and might to influence other people… For e.g. SAP has certain predilection towards operating systems, this is because Microsoft uses their corporate might to influence other friendly corporations to use their platform. We do believe in using the Web as the platform, we provide applications on
