On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:10:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Nuts and Bolts of Open Source Business Models
>,----[ Quote ]
>| Open source is thriving, with over 1.4 million registered
>| users on SourceForge.net and with startups sprouting around
>| every part of the software stack...
"If Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Latest News about Red Hat is any
indication, the answer is yes. With projected revenues of about US$300
million this year, the 13-year-old company relies on a subscription
model"
"Optaros is a more traditional services company, which provides
consulting, application development and systems integration"
,ABB, Access IT, Biogen, Bit9, Boston.com, CERN European Center for
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Kaplan Higher Learning, Lincoln Electric System, Movielink, New Yor
http://www.optaros.com/en/clients
"Open source software is creating new market opportunities and new
companies are springing up to take advantage of these opportunities.
An example is SugarCRM. They sell open source CRM [customer
relationship management] applications and have been in business since
August of 2004"
"We're seeing interest from companies of all sizes. They have been
locked in by proprietary software vendors for a long time and they are
looking for flexibility. Smaller companies are adopting open source
because it's less expensive to acquire and they can modify it
themselves."
http://tinyurl.com/yb634n
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1101691,00.html
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