Does the open-source development model work for business users?
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| Think Passenger uses a host of open-source applications, including Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux, Iona Technologies' Fuse Message Broker, Jetty
| Web server and Terracotta Inc.'s network-attached memory applications.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9066615&source=rss_news50
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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.
|
| [...]
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| 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.
|
| [...]
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| 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
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.
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| 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/
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