18 December 2006 - 10:11Covalent following Symas's Lead(?)
Covalent Technologies got out of the proprietary on top of Open Source business in 2003. Symas did it years earlier. Mark Brewer of Covalent has a nice interview up on IT Conversations. He talks about being a "Production Support" company, supporting production use and being somewhat conservative. "They come to us ..." ... "over 90% renewal rate" ... good stuff.
The interesting thing is his comment stream about indemnification. It's all about a "commercial license" ... hmmm. Their comfort comes from the involvement and the process. It's all about the insurance policies, too. 
Wonder what they think about the introduction of patents which ignore prior art. Well, we wish them the best.
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