Code Keiretsu
Worth reading: The Long Tail and The Code Keiretsu at Simon Phipps’ Sun weblog.
I found it helpful last week to explain open source communities like the ones I mention above as “code keiretsus around a long tail of applications”. As the long tail develops, more and more developers join the keiretsu, each targeting a different area of the long tail, each benefiting from the code commons by being fast to their market yet with commodity-level costs. I believe we will see the software market increasingly dominated by these long-tail code keiretsus.
I like this combined comparison a lot. It accurately reflects the nature of the open source projects I’ve been involved with and/or depend on. Thanks Simon.
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