Introduction to Open Source Business
Nasser Ghanemzadeh
President and CEO, Opatan Inc.
http://BOS.opatan.com

Why
Free/Libre/Open Source Software
(FLOSS also FOSS)

Open source makes people happy
Because
(Credit: Greta Asay)

Student Perspectives: Career Assets
How to
Program
Develop Software with International Standards
Work With SCMs
Get along well with others
And lots of other things that you can put on
your Resume

What about Businesses
picture by Jan Tik

Community
Using Power of The

Lower “Development Cost\"
Reduce \"Time to Market\"
Free Feedback (Test & Bug Report)

Shifting Development Effort
Erkko Anttila's Thesis

Software Reuse
Do not reinvent the wheel,
Do code Refactoring

Google Innovation Summarized
Do not invent new things,
Just make them better

Browsers
Just
Arora
Atlantis
BumperCar: Freeverse
ind It! Keep It!: Anse mond
GoogleChrome: Google
KidsBrowser: app4mac
Midori
OmniWeb: The Omni
Webkit
osb-browser: Nokia
Safari: Apple
Shiira: HMDT Siira
SunriseBrowser
TrailBlazer: MacWarriors
Web Browser for S60: Nokia
Origyn : Sand-Labs

Bible, John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word
Free Software

fri≠gratis
frjáls≠ ókeypis
vapaa≠ ilmainen
libre≠ gratuit
libre≠ gratuito
libero≠gratis
dror≠ chinam
‫رایگان ≠ آزاد‬
aazad≠ muft
swatantra≠ vinamulya
shadhinata≠binepoisha
sudandram≠ ilavasam
svobodnoe≠ besplatnoe
tudo ≠ mien phi
Mårten Mickos, \"Why Freedom Makes a Better Business Model\" Presentation

and then came
Eric S. Raymond
with his
The Cathedral And The Bazaar

And then came
The other Business friendly word
Open Source

and here comes
Business Model

A shift is happening
Selling Selling
Software Software
Products Services
SaaS

Open Source Business Models
1. Donations
2. Badgeware/Advertising
3. Product spec. (ITSC/Subscription)
4. Dual Licensing
5. Open-Core Licensing/Hybrid
6. Embedded OS
7. Hardware

Open Source Business Models
1. Donations
Most of Non-commercial OS projects Hosted by SourceForge.net or others
Apache, Eclipse

Open Source Business Models
2. Badgeware/Advertising
Mozilla (FireFox) , OpenBravo, SocialText

Open Source Business Models
3. Product specialists
(ITSC/Subscription)
Alfresco, Compiere, Zenoss, Exadel, Babel, CleverSafe

Open Source Business Models
4. Dual Licensing
Funambol,MuleSource, Mysql (Sun), Pentaho

Open Source Business Models
5. Open-Core Licensing/
Hybrid
EnterpriseDB, Hyperic, JasperSoft, rPath, Vyatta, ZIMBRA (Yahoo),
Zend, SugarCRM, Xen, VirtualBox(Sun)

Open Source Business Models
6. Embedded OS
IBM WebSphere (Apache), Actuate 10 portfolio (BIRT)

Success keys
Product
Community
Licensing
+
Branding

Barometers
Download rate
Forum usage

Learn to
Business
and it's Literature

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