Global Strategy and Business

OI Unix Open Enterprise Systems such as Oi UNIX (formally Sun's Opensolaris),Fedora,BSD,and Susie were all destined to create a new low cost sever market in 2011.This has still yet to happen in 2012.BSC Consulting puts forward some suggestions on how the Open source model needs to change to compete with proprietary systems in 2012.Arguing that Open source needs to deliver the same product experience as proprietary systems whilst defining Open source processes as the customer choice. The notion that the Open source route is sheltered from a customer focus is clearly untrue. Theoretically Open source should be the preferred product in recessionary times been relatively less effected by the economic cycle.Urging a change from a developer dominant community to a wider community skills base with defined traits.Producing a defined strategy to develop and dominate a market segment.Building  business professionals within the business or community.Use professional marketeers to innova...

The business man who helped Apple to challenge the personal computing, mobile device and music industries status quo has died. Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs died aged 56 in California. Fans and employees gathered at the Apple campus in Cupertino California to remember him. Steve jobs will always be remembered as the co-founder of Apple Mac and took the opportunity of setting a niche strategy around the products to differentiate his offerings with design innovation and usability. Open source communities also attribute him for promoting their designs and software to the wider world. The range of products revolutionized consumer computing design with the help of English designers and challenged the dominance of Microsoft in the personal computing market. He also challenged the music industry to reinvent itself online. Towards the end of his career he saw Google Open source vendor as his chief competitor.Much criticism was published in the press in this battle against Google. Battli...