Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - business http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/1290/0 en Open Source Business Models http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/open-source-business-models <p>There is once again a lot of fuzz going on about Open Source Business models,</p> <p><a href="http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2009/09/customers-not-thrilled-with-open-source-business-models-preferred-by-many-vcs-open-source-companies/" rel="nofollow">First on my eyballs was the article that Customers don't seem to like openCore</a> what a big <a href="http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=611" rel="nofollow">surprise .. </a></p> <p>So that's not the one that makes the customers happy ,</p> <p>Then there is the other side of the coin, the people that create open source<br /> <a href="http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/09/15/oracle-could-kill-off-mysql-but-probably-wont/" rel="nofollow"> Authors realize the dual licensing model comes hunting back at you </a> after a merger or a hostile acquisition, yes they still have the source code to build on but they can't sell commercial licenses to their customers anymore they way they used to.</p> <p>So that's not the one that eventually makes the authors happy,</p> <p>Then there is the RedHat model, which tends to please a lot of people, which tends to be something traditional IT resellers can take in their portofolio, but partnering with a RedHat style company as an open source expert consultancy company isn't easy , as the expert consultancy companies have the knowledge themselves and won't push reselling subscriptions. </p> <p>So that doesn't make the Distribution Vendors happy</p> <p>Back when XenSource came on the market we asked them if they could help us supporting some of our customers with Xen deployments, they didn't care they wanted to build a product and a fast exit ..</p> <p>That didn't make us as an integrator nor the customer happy.</p> <p>You'd think us opensource folks are really unhappy wouldn't you ?<br /> Wrong.. as we are all in it .. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Fun" rel="nofollow">Just for Fun</a></p> <p>and the money!</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/open-source-business-models#comments business licensing mysql open source opencore Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:17:47 +0000 Kris Buytaert 938 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog