Evolution of Video Game Business Models

From CNET.com, the enterprise software market has been going through a product-to-service transformation for a number of years. One clear representation of this is the boom in open source and software as a service, both of which are built on a different value curve in relation to typical enterprise licensing. Writer Dave Rosenberg goes on, the game market is at the beginning of an evolutionary path--moving from purely packaged games played on consoles to browser-based free-to-play and hybrid-hosted scenarios.

With free-to-play and open source the norm for video game software, where are these business models headed? We'd like to hear your thoughts.

Will you pay for open source in 2009?

It seems that more open source applications will cost in 2009, will you pay? Infoworld has an interesting response to CNET's open source ideas that definitely deserves a good read. Most people think that open source means free, but CNET disagrees.

What are your thoughts?

Free versus paid offers to completely different business models and it will be interesting to see how each hold up in the upcoming year.

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Outsourcing Enterprise Architecture

James McGovern brings up an interesting concept in his latest post on Enterprise Architecture. There’s an outsourcing trend that not many companies have caught on to yet. Many times when developers are outsourced to India, the architectects jump into American forums and ask them to help them write their codes.

Open source communities are made in order to support people and not help them write their codes for them. Has anyone else caught onto this trend? Are corporations really getting a deal when outsourcing personnel?