Open Season on Open Source Apps

The Picky VC takes on open source applications. Once again, he lets the chips fall where they may ...

At the risk of incurring the [wrath of] those who have already placed bets on the near-term successiirgk of open source enterprise apps, I'd like to point out a few structural impediments to near-term mass adoption of these "products." Oops, did I upset the open source purists by calling them products instead of "projects?" Well, I hope they are products, since the CIO does not want to buy your cool work in progress.