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Who Did We Survey About Open Source Business Models?

Posted by Kim Weins on September 11th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

We've had some people asking about the sample for our recent survey that asked users about open source business models and license models. So here's some data on our sample and the respondents. We sent the survey to about 10,000 people in our database. Some of these are customers, but most are not. These represent [...]

Customers Not Thrilled with Open Source Business Models Preferred by Many VCs & Open Source Companies

Posted by Kim Weins on September 10th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

The “best” open source business model is a topic that has generated lots of discussion. Unfortunately a lot of the generally accepted conclusions on the “best” business models aren’t in sync with what customers prefer. In many cases, venture-backed commercial open source companies are gravitating towards open-core models where the core code is available as [...]