eric raymond the cathedral and the bazaar

Nearly two decades after that early-evening presentation in Bavaria, The Cathedral and the Bazaar continues to move people. 'The fact that it was received with rapt attention and thunderous applause by an audience in which there were very few native speakers of English seemed to confirm that I was onto something,' Raymond wrote a year later, as his treatise blossomed into a book. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.Nineteen years ago this week, at an annual meeting of Linux-Kongress in Bavaria, an American programmer named Eric Raymond delivered the first version of a working paper he called 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar.' According to Raymond, the exploratory and largely speculative account of some curious new programming practices contained 'no really fundamental discovery.' Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 19.

According to Bob Young, 'This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them.'The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years.

Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age.

Eric raymond the cathedral and the bazaar