| Venture Pro: Open-Source Standouts Will Heed '90s Lessons |
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| Publication: | E Week | Date: | Mar 18 2004 |
Open-source software developers are subject to the same macroeconomic forces as the rest of the IT industry, and they have to avoid repeating the monstrously costly mistakes of the 1990s, says Ray Lane, general partner in venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
In the present environment of unpredictable threats of international terrorism and slow economic growth, companies are going to be more careful than ever about their software technology investments, Lane said during a presentation at the Open Source Business Conference here.
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