open source business models
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A brief discussion on Open Source Business Models - advantages, limitations and revenue generation.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Economic ParadoxIf Open Source Softwareis distributed for free, where will themoney come from?
2. Most Common Business ModelsOpen 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 Documentation3 3. Open Source Business Models in G2iX 4. G2iX Founded 2001 Focused on enabling businesses with innovative solutionsAward-winning engineering team Globally Delivered Engineering ServicesWorld-class open source engineeringautomationLeading open source applicationsScalable cloud computing platformBuild and Test AutomationOur employees from Australia to Germany,from US to the Philippines consistentlydeliver innovation for our worldwidecustomersCloud Computing Infrastructure 5 5. G2iXimportant milestonesGluecode acquisition by IBMLogicblaze acquisition by IONA Open SourceOSCON in Portland, POSS in PH, Software Freedom DayEclipse Foundation & Apache Software FoundationSpeakers in ApacheCon, Committers in Apache, Eclipse & OpenQA projects, First (andonly) Filipina VP in Apache Awards6 6. Software DevelopmentOS cuts down research & development cost ToolsRedmine, Eclipse IDE, Maven, Selenium, etc. OS speeds up delivery examplesFor a telecom company, Liferay Portal was used as the core of their client facing portalFor NPN, a nancing company in LA, Spring framework was utilized to build thefoundation of their loan & mortgage management system7 7. Proprietary components to OSSOakgrove BPM ProprietaryOpen Source 8 8. New Product :: Maestro Distributed Engineeringwith a common build mappingAsynchronousExtensive re-useDevelopmentof software around theartifactsworld (Ingredients)Frequent testing of integration and functions Adapting the best practices of Open Source development processes to the Enterprise 9 9. Challenging Business Model Technical Support Ad hoc support services are used by nearly 70% of the vendors assessed, but represent the primary revenuestream for fewer than 8% of open-source-related vendors Codes in established OSS are really goodActual developers in the OS projectTechnical Support Engineers & Highly skilled Software Engineers10 10. Other pointsrevenue not from the main product but from ancillary services skills needed Technical Management (Financial, Marketing, etc)11 11. Thank YouQuestions? Jaque [email protected] www.g2ix.com www.exist.com www.maestrodev.com www.mor.ph 12. G2iX UniversityCode Camp (April 2010)OJT (April 2010) [email protected] [email protected] G2iXUexistcodecamp