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OSS Trickle Down

If I understand Dana's point correctly here, he's saying that as open source vendors start getting a larger part of the corporate IT budget, less money is spent on commercial vendors, thereby reducing how much those commercial vendors have to spend on R&D for future innovations.

Googles Buys JotSpot, Self-Coverage Ensues

Google has acquired JotSpot, which describes itself as "the first application wiki company." In a well-coordinated display, JotSpot's co-founder Joe Kraus made a post about the purchase on the Google Blog, while the JotSpot site supplied the answers to eleven "frequently asked questions" about the deal. There's another post on the "JotBlog," as well.