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Plone and Corporate Open-Source Investments
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Plone gets a nod from Harvard Business School.
Plone is mentioned briefly in a new working paper titled "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community" by Dr. Marco Iansiti, Ph.D. and Gregory L. Richards, published by Harvard Business School.
Key conclusion: "[V]endors have not invested uniformly in high impact projects. Rather, it appears that vendors are investing in high impact OSS projects that can to serve in a complementary fashion to draw revenues to their own (largely proprietary) core businesses."
