Open Source Business Models
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The document discusses the economic paradox of open source software being free and outlines common business models such as advertising, consulting, and technical support. It highlights the importance of various open source licensing schemes and the benefits of open source in reducing costs and improving quality control. Additionally, it details the company's achievements, team, and focus on providing innovative solutions through globally delivered engineering services.
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Open Source Business Models
- 1. Joanna Mariazeta-Taguinod [email_address] Software Freedom Day PH 09/17/10 UP Diliman
- 2. Economic Paradox If open source software is distributed for free , where will the money come from?
- 3. Most Common Business Models Open Source and Commercial Versions Advertising on Free Software New Product Development (based on existing OSS) Software Engineering Services (using OSS tools & frameworks/components) Consulting Services (migration to OSS & customization) Technical Support Training Documentation
- 4. OSS Licensing Scheme License Ownership Virality Inheritance Business friendly GPL No Yes Yes No LGPL No Partial Yes No BSD Yes No No Yes Artistic Yes No No Yes MIT Yes No No Yes Apache v1.1 Yes No No Yes Apache v2.0 Yes No No Yes MPL v1.1 No No Yes No PHP License v3.0 Yes No No Yes Zope Public License v2.0 Yes No No Yes Python SF License v2.0 Yes No No Yes
- 5. Founded 2001 Focused on enabling businesses with innovative solutions Award-winning engineering team
- 6. World-class open source engineering automation
- 7. Leading open source applications
- 8. Scalable cloud computing platform Our employees from Australia to Germany, from US to the Philippines consistently deliver innovation for our worldwide customers Globally Delivered Engineering Services Build and Test Automation Cloud Computing Infrastructure
- 9. Important Milestones Gluecode acquisition by IBM
- 10. Logicblaze acquisition by IONA Open Source OSCON in Portland, POSS in PH, Software Freedom Day
- 11. Eclipse Foundation & Apache Software Foundation
- 12. Speakers in ApacheCon, Committers in Apache, Eclipse & OpenQA projects, First (and only) Filipina VP in Apache Awards
- 13. Software Development OS cuts down research & development cost Tools Redmine, Eclipse IDE, Maven, Selenium, etc. OS speeds up delivery Examples For a telecom company, Liferay Portal was used as the core of their client facing portal
- 14. For NPN, a financing company in LA, Spring framework was utilized to build the foundation of their loan & mortgage management system
- 15. Proprietary Components to OSS Oakgrove BPM Proprietary Open Source
- 16. Maestro Adapting the best practices of open source development processes to the enterprise Distributed engineering with a common build mapping Asynchronous development around the world Extensive reuse of software artifacts (ingredients) Frequent testing of integration and functions
- 17. OSS Is Business-Friendly Reduced duplication effort Building upon the work of others Better quality control – “Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.” Reduced maintenance cost
- 18. Other Points Technical Support Codes in established OSS are really good
- 19. Actual developers in the OS project
- 20. Technical support engineers & highly skilled software engineers Revenue not from the main product but from ancillary services Skills Needed Technical
- 21. Management (Financial, Marketing, etc.)
- 22. A Global Gateway Innovation Exchange, LLC Subsidiary www.exist.com Twitter: @existglobal
- 23. Look for our group on Facebook: Exist Global
- 24. We want to hear from you! Apply to: [email_address]