Open Source as a Disruptive Technology

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