"Too often, we think of our jobs and our careers as being the same thing. They're not. Jobs are given and jobs are taken away -- often by forces you can't control. But your career belongs to you. You get to decide everything about it: where you go, what you do, whom you work with. Don't hesitate to spend real time -- six months, a year -- figuring out your career trajectory. It's the best investment you'll ever make." Fast Company | careers - Eunice Azzani

"Most open source is imitation," Carey says. "Linux is an imitation of an operating system. If these [Linux] companies are going to create a price point that is significant enough that they are approaching the same pricing model as the innovation premium, why pay a premium for imitation when I can pay a premium and get innovation?"

via Forbes.

Forbes article re Red Hat.

Red Hat's mission is more daunting than boring: It is trying to prove that a profitable business can be built around free, open-source software. The stuff is proliferating wildly on corporate servers, thanks to low cost of entry and its ability to undergo change more easily than Microsoft Windows or any of the flavors of Unix sold by IBM, Sun Microsystems or Hewlett-Packard. According to Netcraft.com, 67% of Web servers run on the open-source program Apache. Gartner says 80% of its clients with more than 500 PCs use Linux in some form. It powers Amazon.com, Google and the trading platform of Morgan Stanley.

But the rise of Linux threatens to introduce brutal commodity economics to an industry accustomed to fat margins and customer lock-in. Any programmer can see and legitimately copy the building blocks that make the software work. All that's left for vendors is to compete on price and service. Analysts expect Red Hat's prices to drop up to 20% a year. Another obstacle is new uncertainty over who, if anyone, owns Linux. Utah-based SCO Group has sued IBM, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler for using Linux in violation of SCO's patents on the related Unix operating system. In response, Red Hat sued SCO and told customers that any offending code will be replaced.

Media Training. Forbes.com - Magazine Article