This month's Computers in Business (the IT supplement from the Sunday Business Post) has an interesting article by Barry McCall which covers the "marriage" of open and closed source solutions in the corporate environment.
Some of his reflections are quite incisive:
Some competing Linux distributors are blindly following a pure open source path while some proprietary vendors are doggedly fighting the advancing tide of open source. It is hard to see either succeeding in the face of a growing move to mixed-source strategiesThe full article is definitely worth reading: Best of Both Worlds
Very good article. Some vendors just have blinkers on when it comes to deciding whether to offer solely open source or proprietary solutions.
Blinkers is putting it politely :)