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[News] Another Example of Making Money with Free Software

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Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures

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| The pragmatic and ethically-rooted world of free software might seem about as 
| far away as possible from the highly abstract and, at times, morally dubious 
| world of high finance. But as Richard Stallman has frequently pointed out, 
| free software is by no means antithetical to making money: it's just a 
| question of how you make money.    
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=893&blogid=14

Walking Three Tightropes

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| Funambol avoids this tension by making use of some deft market segmentation. 
| Open source versions of its products are aimed at enterprises; the commercial 
| version isn't simply a superior version of that, but an entirely different 
| animal, aimed at a different market (carriers, ISPs, portals etc.). That way, 
| Funambol can give full open source versions to general users, who provide the 
| feedback, while selling specialists versions that wouldn't be of interest to 
| enterprises anyway.      
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=891


Recent:

Open Source Service with Sourcesense

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| I spoke with Gianugo Rabellino of Sourcesense this morning about the way they 
| help both the buy and sell side of open source. This division, common among 
| talking about industry analysts, just means customers and vendors  
| 
| [...]
| 
| While there are several Apache Foundation tie-ins at Sourcesense - Gianugo is 
| the VP of XML over at Apache - they’re not, as you might partly characterize 
| Covalent, an Apache open source company.  
| 
| Instead, on the buy side they help companies sort out process and culture 
| things like getting the legal and procurement people happy with open source. 
| Also, pulling for their own open source experience, Gianugo told me, they 
| help development teams switch over to the sort of Agile/open 
| source/geo-distributed bucket of excitement that’s going around now-a-days.    
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http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/01/11/open-source-service-with-sourcesense/


Related:

KOfficeSource: a KOffice Consultancy Company

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| Announcing itself today is KOfficeSource GmbH, a company that will sell 
| services around KOffice. The founders comprise a small group of members of 
| the developer community, as well as outside talent. They share an interest in 
| furthering KOffice by supporting it commercially in addition to the 
| non-commercial support that can be found on the mailing lists and IRC. As the  
| name suggests it has been created in Germany but will operate across Europe 
| and further afield.      
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http://dot.kde.org/1199838571/


Sun will offer back-line support for OpenOffice

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| Sun Microsystems on Monday plans to announce that it will provide support for 
| the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, citing a wave of momentum 
| behind the open-source project.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/121407-sun-will-offer-back-line-support.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news


Top Five Open Source Business Models You Never Heard Of

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| The art of “selling” or generating revenue from open source is a topic of 
| growing importance as open source takes a larger piece of the software 
| business. In the past, open source revenue has largely been associated with 
| services marketed by many top tier Linux companies: Support, middleware 
| solutions, etc.    
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3686616


How to make money by giving stuff away

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| RedHat CFO Charlie Peters said this week that the key to success
| is to "convince customers of the value of moving from free to paid".
| Largely because JBoss is a free download, an estimated 11 million
| people are using it. Now if they can move even a small fraction of
| those customers into the paying column, that will be a significant
| source of revenue.
| 
| [...]
| 
| There is something of a snowball effect here. As you bring more
| people into your "community", the community becomes more attractive
| (because of new content, shared knowledge, buzz, etc.), which drives
| even more people in.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=202


How to use open source as a power marketing tool

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| There are a number of ways traditional software vendors can participate
| in the open source software community. They circulate around open
| source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL), and
| how to leverage open source software as a marketing tool.
|
| [...]
|
| Traditional software vendors need to recognize the shift taking place
| is driven not only by successful open source projects, but also by the 
| rapid and broad adoption of open source in the customer marketplace. The 
| numbers behind open source adoption are compelling. Linux in both the 
| United States and Asia is the fastest growing operating system ever. As 
| measured by hostnames, Netcraft reports that the Internet has grown 26.1 
| percent over the past 12 months, over 67 percent of it served up by open 
| source Apache servers.
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http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/06/24/2057239.shtml


Open Source vs. Closed Source Support

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| Coté is discussing open source versus closed source support. When I worked 
| for closed source companies (I was the Director of Technical Support at 
| EarthLink and VP of Services at Win4Lin) our curve for support looked 
| something like this.    
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http://www.encoreopus.com/open-source/open-source-vs.-closed-source-support-3.html
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