http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/13/451-caos-links-20091013/ A blog for the enterprise open source community Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/13/451-caos-links-20091013/comment-page-1/#comment-480991 Gabriele Ruffatti Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:21:41 +0000 http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/?p=1253#comment-480991 The OS vendors debate around OS business models and how to make money form OS is a tremendous one. In Paris, at Open World Forum, many people was wondering how to reach it. Thanks to the open core model, as Seth seems to say, many times open source is a “window dressing” to sell proprietary solutions. I’m working with a different model, Free Software at Industrial Model, LGPL based. I mean: one single stable version where the project road-map is focused on the users’ needs, not on the marketing product’s needs. SpagoBI www.spagobi.org is following this model. I name this model “ecology of value” because it could build a real ecosystem with many different businesses inside, granting a sustainability in time because the benefits are not only for the company managing the solution, but for other users, integrators, vendors and researchers in a open network. It’s starting to work in some cases, but it’s not the most appealing model in the market because usually people prefer a very commercial solution they must buy or resell with a clear price list (instead of buying only the support if they like to do it). Am I crazy, or the ecology of value model cannot work in this old economy? Do we need to redirect not only technological innovation but also business imagination? I don’t have an answer, but open source is the place of richness, not of scanty resources, also in business model, luckily. The OS vendors debate around OS business models and how to make money form OS is a tremendous one. In Paris, at Open World Forum, many people was wondering how to reach it. Thanks to the open core model, as Seth seems to say, many times open source is a “window dressing” to sell proprietary solutions. I’m working with a different model, Free Software at Industrial Model, LGPL based. I mean: one single stable version where the project road-map is focused on the users’ needs, not on the marketing product’s needs. SpagoBI http://www.spagobi.org is following this model. I name this model “ecology of value” because it could build a real ecosystem with many different businesses inside, granting a sustainability in time because the benefits are not only for the company managing the solution, but for other users, integrators, vendors and researchers in a open network. It’s starting to work in some cases, but it’s not the most appealing model in the market because usually people prefer a very commercial solution they must buy or resell with a clear price list (instead of buying only the support if they like to do it). Am I crazy, or the ecology of value model cannot work in this old economy? Do we need to redirect not only technological innovation but also business imagination? I don’t have an answer, but open source is the place of richness, not of scanty resources, also in business model, luckily.

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