... Bazaar model, with Linux product release cycle of 4 to 6 months. However, Red Hat's own Linux for enterprise market is having around 12 to 18 months cycle. Difficult to control and channel the ideas (prefer Cathedral model). For a product that have release cycles every 4 to 6 months, it is very difficult for corporate market to keep updated and very tedious for them to ... model damages existing closed source value chain. This is very much realized as Linux's market share is increasing rapidly, as shown in Appendix F. Internet is now the main media distribution channel, but amazingly fo...

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