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]]> By: Ivan http://www.ivanwalsh.com/how-to/is-open-source-bad-for-business/751/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Ivan Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:19:30 +0000 http://ivanwalsh.com/?p=751#comment-130 I see your point and of course what you said makes sense. I wrote this to counter some of the arguments in the main stream press. Most of what we use here is os but the trick for developers is to see the business benefits they can generate from it and not get into a small mindset that says “company x is bad” because they are not os. <Open Source is actually very good for businesses but the issue is that very few have understood the way to monetize open source. Internet itself is the greatest case study of open source but with free software companies associated with free software with no additional layer on top of it will remain in the commodity jungle of open source. You can not make money by commodity software alone. The future is in building services on top of it. Exactly! IBM and Sun use os to develop apps but compliment this with services and consultancy. <we see that in future open source business models will manifest themselves as closed source services, SaaS, PaaS. In fact it is already happening with Google. The challenge is however that with this new pricing structures, new governance models and new ways of thinking have to be evolved. I’ll look at your site now as it promises to address some of the points we have discussed here. Take care. Ivan I see your point and of course what you said makes sense. I wrote this to counter some of the arguments in the main stream press.

Most of what we use here is os but the trick for developers is to see the business benefits they can generate from it and not get into a small mindset that says “company x is bad” because they are not os.

<Open Source is actually very good for businesses but the issue is that very few have understood the way to monetize open source. Internet itself is the greatest case study of open source but with free software companies associated with free software with no additional layer on top of it will remain in the commodity jungle of open source. You can not make money by commodity software alone. The future is in building services on top of it.

Exactly!
IBM and Sun use os to develop apps but compliment this with services and consultancy.
<we see that in future open source business models will manifest themselves as closed source services, SaaS, PaaS. In fact it is already happening with Google. The challenge is however that with this new pricing structures, new governance models and new ways of thinking have to be evolved.

I’ll look at your site now as it promises to address some of the points we have discussed here.

Take care.

Ivan

]]> By: Shubham Nagar http://www.ivanwalsh.com/how-to/is-open-source-bad-for-business/751/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Shubham Nagar Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:43:35 +0000 http://ivanwalsh.com/?p=751#comment-124 Open Source is actually very good for businesses but the issue is that very few have understood the way to monetize open source. Internet itself is the greatest case study of open source but with free software companies associated with free software with no additonal layer on top of it will remain in the commodity jungle of open source. You can not make money by commodity software alone. The future is in building services on top of it.<br><br>Actually, we see that in future open source business models will manifest themselves as closed source services, SaaS, PaaS. Infact it is already happening with Google. The challenge is however that with this new pricing structures, new governance models and new ways of thinking have to be evolved. This is one of the continuous challenges companies such as InfoAxon face today.<br><br>Check out more at <a href="http://www.infoaxon.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoaxon.com</a> Open Source is actually very good for businesses but the issue is that very few have understood the way to monetize open source. Internet itself is the greatest case study of open source but with free software companies associated with free software with no additonal layer on top of it will remain in the commodity jungle of open source. You can not make money by commodity software alone. The future is in building services on top of it.

Actually, we see that in future open source business models will manifest themselves as closed source services, SaaS, PaaS. Infact it is already happening with Google. The challenge is however that with this new pricing structures, new governance models and new ways of thinking have to be evolved. This is one of the continuous challenges companies such as InfoAxon face today.

Check out more at http://www.infoaxon.com

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