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Open Source as a Disruptive Technology

Published: April 30, 2011, 10:30 a.m.

b'The term, "disruptive technology," was coined by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen and popularized in his best seller, "The Innovator\'s Dilemma." (ISBN 0-06-662069-

4)http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/christensen.htm
But killing the market leader is not easy. The leader will defend its leadership position in the market. That strategy is called, simply, "defense."
Firefox 4 passes 100 million downloads mark
The VA uses\\xa0 open source software to run Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), which is their Electronic Health Record (EHR) system
Astronaut VistA Installer Suite (http://www.astronautvista.com) is a package that installs one of several different versions of VistA (currently available versions are Astronaut\\u2122

WorldVistA\\u2122 edition and Astronaut OpenVistA\\u2122 edition*) in an integrated fashion.http://sourceforge.net/projects/astronaut/files/
Yochai Benkler on Open-source economics'