Pin ItI know everyone's been saying it: The economic downturn will drive more people to open source. Because OpenLogic sells support on 500 projects as well as open source governance services and solutions, we get a very broad view of enterprise use of open source. After analyzing our Q3 and 2009 results, I've seen the [...]
Read More »Pin ItA recent survey we did of enterprises using open source, showed that they are not big fans of the open-core business model. Recent blogs by Matthew Aslett, Jay Lyman, John Mark Walker center around this issue of the future of the open core business model. At OpenLogic, we are a VC-backed company that has [...]
Read More »Pin ItI recently wrote a blog post about what what happened when Projity (backers of OpenProj) got acquired by Serena Software. After months of trying to get attention from the OpenProj community about some missing source code (including forum posts, emails, calls to Serena) I finally resorted to public embarassment in hopes of getting a [...]
Read More »Pin ItUpdate 10/5/09: The day after I wrote this blog and twittered it, the OpenProj committers provided the missing source code. There has been lots of discussion about what will happen to MySQL once it is acquired by Oracle. In a generic sense, the question really comes down to this: What happens to an open [...]
Read More »Pin ItWe'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 [...]
Read More »Pin It 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 [...]
Read More »Pin It Recently I’ve seen a lot of references to Gartner’s report “Predicts 2009: The Evolving Open-Source Software Model” which includes this key finding: “By 2012, at least 50% of direct commercial revenue attributed to open-source products or services will come from projects under a single vendor's patronage.” I’m not buying it. As of right now, [...]
Read More »Pin ItWith news of the SpringSource acquisition by VMWare still reverberating around the blogosphere and twittersphere, many in the open source world are wondering whether VMWare will now be another large open source company.“Being an open source company” is partly about technology (providing products under open source licenses) and contributing to the open source community. [...]
Read More »Pin ItWhen I joined OpenLogic 3 years ago, I wondered if enterprises would eventually standardize on a limited set of open source packages, thereby reducing the diversity of open source projects they use. Well the verdict is in, and to-date we've seen that enterprises are using more and more open source software. They are expanding [...]
Read More »Pin ItI've written before about the sometimes negative impact that commercial vendors can have on open source projects. (See Should commercial open source vendors "own" an open source community?) Some business models and business practices of open source vendors (trying to control all committers and commits, withholding enhancements and fixes from community versions, etc) seem to turn [...]
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