Comments on: Open and public http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/ A blog for the enterprise open source community Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:44:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan Dorner http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-200885 Dan Dorner Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:06:22 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-200885 Yea I love working with ForexTE. The guys over there are awesome. Learn to trade Forex with <a href="http://www.forexte.com/forex_tips.html" rel="nofollow">free forex tips</a>. Thanks, Dan. Yea I love working with ForexTE. The guys over there are awesome. Learn to trade Forex with free forex tips. Thanks, Dan.

]]> By: Mike Moody http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-195031 Mike Moody Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:38:24 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-195031 Learn to trade forex and profit by working with the best <a href="http://www.forexte.com/forex_charting.html" rel="nofollow">forex charting software</a> on the market. Thanks, Mike. Learn to trade forex and profit by working with the best forex charting software on the market. Thanks, Mike.

]]> By: Bobby http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-78800 Bobby Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:33:10 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-78800 Open Source companies should make money at the end of the day, don't they? In the meanwhile I'll stick to <a href="http://www.networthmasters.com/recommend/pattern.html" rel="nofollow">stock trading chart system</a> to monitor their prices and profit from it.. BP Open Source companies should make money at the end of the day, don’t they? In the meanwhile I’ll stick to stock trading chart system to monitor their prices and profit from it..

BP

]]> By: eIT http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-2784 eIT Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:24:20 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-2784 Nice article, thanks On a slightly tangential note, making revenues from free & open source software is one of the most frequently asked questions these days. While there have been a few successful examples of companies (like MySQL, Red Hat etc) which are making money, I’d surmise that these are still very early days for open source revenue & profit models. While open source as an operational paradigm certainly has been having exceptional success against proprietary and closed-software models in the recent past, in my opinion, a lot more thought need to be given and experimentations done before the emergence of viable revenue models for the free & open source models that can successfully compete with the current proprietary software revenue model. Some specifics of the business models are emerging fast, but it will take a few years for the market to test each of these out and hopefully, the fittest will survive. A site that focuses exclusively on <b><a href="http://www.follars.com" rel="nofollow">revenue models from open source is Follars.com</a></b> – Free, Open-source Dollars! Ec @ <a href="http://www.eit.in" rel="nofollow">IT, Software Database @ eIT.in</a> Nice article, thanks

On a slightly tangential note, making revenues from free & open source software is one of the most frequently asked questions these days. While there have been a few successful examples of companies (like MySQL, Red Hat etc) which are making money, I’d surmise that these are still very early days for open source revenue & profit models.

While open source as an operational paradigm certainly has been having exceptional success against proprietary and closed-software models in the recent past, in my opinion, a lot more thought need to be given and experimentations done before the emergence of viable revenue models for the free & open source models that can successfully compete with the current proprietary software revenue model. Some specifics of the business models are emerging fast, but it will take a few years for the market to test each of these out and hopefully, the fittest will survive.

A site that focuses exclusively on revenue models from open source is Follars.com – Free, Open-source Dollars!

Ec @ IT, Software Database @ eIT.in

]]> By: Erica http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-895 Erica Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:24:47 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-895 Sorry about the link - I figured out what happened. You have to click on the British flag near the upper right corner of the page (it is difficult to see at first.) When I click on the link, it shows it to me in English because I had already clicked that button. You are also correct about the stock. I was thinking that the IPO was today - I should have paid more attention to the date (on your article as well as the IPO announcement.) I apologize for the oversight. Sorry about the link - I figured out what happened. You have to click on the British flag near the upper right corner of the page (it is difficult to see at first.) When I click on the link, it shows it to me in English because I had already clicked that button.

You are also correct about the stock. I was thinking that the IPO was today - I should have paid more attention to the date (on your article as well as the IPO announcement.) I apologize for the oversight.

]]> By: Raven Zachary http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-893 Raven Zachary Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:12:23 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-893 Hi Erica - thanks for the correction on the conversion. I was doing the math in reverse, accidentally. I have fixed this. Are you sure it closed at 21 NOK yesterday? The charts showed 17.50 and if you look at todays chart, you'll see that the day started just over 17.50 and has since climbed to 21. Also - I looked at the link you embedded into the comment and it's not in English. Can you repost? Hi Erica - thanks for the correction on the conversion. I was doing the math in reverse, accidentally. I have fixed this. Are you sure it closed at 21 NOK yesterday? The charts showed 17.50 and if you look at todays chart, you’ll see that the day started just over 17.50 and has since climbed to 21.

Also - I looked at the link you embedded into the comment and it’s not in English. Can you repost?

]]> By: Erica http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-892 Erica Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:06:13 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/07/05/open-and-public/#comment-892 You are correct that the shares opened at NOK 16 per share, but that is only US$2.57. The shares actually closed at NOK 21, which is US$3.40. Here is a link to the Trolltech's chart on the Oslo stock exchange in English: http://www.oslobors.no/ob/aksje_kursutvikling?menu2show=1.1.2.1.&p_instrid=ticker.ose.TROLL Those numbers give Trolltech an opening market cap of about $131.37 million (there are a total of 51,104,028 shares outstanding) and a closing market cap of about $172.1 million. You are correct that the shares opened at NOK 16 per share, but that is only US$2.57. The shares actually closed at NOK 21, which is US$3.40.

Here is a link to the Trolltech’s chart on the Oslo stock exchange in English: http://www.oslobors.no/ob/aksje_kursutvikling?menu2show=1.1.2.1.&p_instrid=ticker.ose.TROLL

Those numbers give Trolltech an opening market cap of about $131.37 million (there are a total of 51,104,028 shares outstanding) and a closing market cap of about $172.1 million.

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