Selling software in an open-source world - Marco Tabini

Courtesy Planet PHP  Mon, 11/23/2009 - 07:59

How do you sell software when it's free?

How do you sell software when it's free?

Last week, Zend’s marketing department saw fit to send me an e-mail—the third in so many weeks—touting the fact that the upcoming Zend Server 5 will support job queueing¹ to offload requests either to another process on the same server or to another server altogether.

Undoubtedly, this is a great feature, not the least because it begs a little bit of simple business analysis of how difficult it...


 

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