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Exploitation is perceived as an output for any given technology coming from R&D. The objective is this practice is to suggest the drill to conclude a technology transfer agreement by giving a certain number of basic rules related to ordinary, legal and other aspects, and related to negotiation process. It also regroups necessary initial first steps in order to lead to successful exploitation as follows: the valuation of the technology, then the elaboration of transfer scenarios and finally, management of financial compensation.
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1. Open source business models:
myths, realities,
practical examples
Carlo Daffara
European Working Group on Libre Software
Conecta Research
2. ●
“Open-source software is deliberately developed
outside of market mechanisms... fails to contribute
to the creation of value in development, as opposed
to the commercial software market ... does not
generate profit, income, jobs or taxes … The open-
source licenses on the software aim to suppress any
ownership claims to the software and prevent prices
from being established for it. In the end, the
developed software cannot be used to generate
profit.” University of Muenster, Muenster Institute
for Computational Economics “Open Source-
Software: An Economic Assessment”
3. ●
… yet OSS represents 25% of the total sw+services
market
4. ● Where does this overall value comes from?
● firms contributing code to FLOSS projects have in
total at least 570 thousand employees and annual
revenue of 263 billion € (FLOSSPOLS study, 2005)
● Adapted to 2008: 890 thousands employees, 315
B€ total annual revenue
5. OSS Vendor Dual Licensing
Business model
Vendor example MySQL
Number of covered single or few
products
Economic advantage Dissemination for the product with reduced costs,
for the vendor creation of external ecosystem of add-ons (outside the
source), visibility, self-segmentation of the market
Economic advantage The adopter may opt for the open source edition if it is
for the adopter deemed sufficient; for the proprietary part, reduction in
cost may give better price/quality ratio
Potential Low external participation (limited code contributions)
disadvantages of the
model
Sale condition Integration of the product with non-OSS components in
externally distributed products
Freeriding protection license choice
External ecosystem Limited (very little external contributions, mainly debug
activity and external products)
6. OSS Vendor Open Core
Business model
Vendor example Zimbra
Number of covered single or few
products
Economic advantage Reduction of R&D, reduced maintenance costs, visibility,
for the vendor increased dissemination, external ecosystem of add-ons,
self-segmentation of the market for the proprietary add-
ons
Economic advantage The adopter may opt for the open source edition if it is
for the adopter deemed sufficient; for the proprietary part, reduction in
cost may give better price/quality ratio
Potential Difficult to estimate the right balance between open and
disadvantages of the closed parts, external groups may create substitutes for
model the proprietary parts
Sale condition Need for the proprietary additions or need of support
Freeriding protection license choice, segmentation on features
External ecosystem Potentially large, depending on the balance
open/proprietary
7. ● Open Core is actually a combination of different
models:
Open source
modules
Proprietary
modules
Open source
components
Dually-licensed
wrapper
●
So, we can infer from our research that the wrapper
will receive little or no contributions from the
outside (no moral judgment – a practical one..)
8. OSS Vendor Product Specialist
Business model
Vendor example Acquia, OpenCascade
Number of covered single or few
products
Economic advantage Reduction of R&D, reduced maintenance costs, visibility,
for the vendor increased dissemination, external ecosystem of add-ons
Economic advantage Reduction in cost may give better price/quality ratio for
for the adopter the adopted software, stability, integrated support reduces
external costs
Potential Low barrier of entry for third-parties
disadvantages of the
model
Sale condition Need of support or specialized modifications, lack of
internal expertise
Freeriding protection License choice, segmentation on features
External ecosystem Yes
9. OSS Vendor Platform Providers
Business model
Vendor example RedHat, Novell (partially)
Number of cov. prod. many
Economic advantage Reduction of R&D, reduced maintenance costs, visibility,
for the vendor increased dissemination, external ecosystem of software
and additions
Economic advantage Reduction in cost may give better price/quality ratio for
for the adopter the adopted software, stability, integrated support reduces
external costs, legal protection is included, easy to find
trained personnel, availability of long-term options
Potential disadv. of Platform engineering requires large R&D efforts even
the model with shared resources
Sale condition Value perceived by user must be higher than the cost of
going to an unsupported recompilation (eg. CentOS);
usually mission-critical environments, need of support or
lack of internal expertise
Freeriding protection License choice, copyrighted and trademarked elements
included in the product
External ecosystem Yes
10. OSS Vendor Software Selection
Business model
Vendor example Navica
Number of cov. prod.
many
Economic advantage Cost of software certification and selection can be
for the vendor partially shared across customers, as most adopters have
a large share of common needs
Economic advantage Reduced selection costs; reduced risk of wrong choice
for the adopter
Potential disadv. of Limited market, difficulty in following rapid evolution of
the model the products covered (evaluation costs)
Sale condition Complex requirements, many areas or strict vertical
requirements to match, possibly large company size
Freeriding protection Selection documents are usually proprietary; selection
requires human intervention (non-replicable)
External ecosystem No
11. OSS Vendor Aggregate support providers
Business model
Vendor example OpenLogic
Number of cov. prod. many
Economic advantage Cost of support can be partially shared across customers,
for the vendor economies of scale
Economic advantage A single point of control and cost for a large number of
for the adopter project, reduced negotiation efforts for large number of
individual vendors, simplified management and
governance
Potential disadv. of Limited market, may be perceived as in partial
the model competition with existing specialists
Sale condition Large number of managed projects, use in mission-critical
infrastructure
Freeriding protection Inherent in the non-transferability of support contracts
External ecosystem No
12. OSS Vendor Legal certification and insurance
Business model
Vendor example Palamida, Black Duck
Number of cov. prod. many
Economic advantage Cost of legal certification and secondary-level insurance
for the vendor can be shared across the most used OSS projects
Economic advantage Equivalent to insurance; provides a materialized and
for the adopter stable costs against uncertain, difficult to quantify
negative events
Potential disadv. of Limited market, difficult to estimate risk probabilities,
the model need to cover separate legal frameworks across the world
with different rules
Sale condition Potential legal risk
Freeriding protection Inherent in the non-transferability of certification and
insurance contracts
External ecosystem No
13. OSS Vendor Training and documentation
Business model
Vendor example GbDirect
Number of cov. prod. many
Economic advantage A significant portion of training development costs can be
for the vendor shared across customers, economies of scale, reuse of
community-developed material
Economic advantage Lower cost for training compared to self-managed
for the adopter training (from source code, publicly available
documentation)
Potential disadv. of May be perceived as in partial competition with existing
the model specialists, human intensive, most of it cannot be
replicated at low cost
Sale condition Lack of internal experts (or too high cost for creation of
internal skills), complex configuration and setup of OSS
product
Freeriding protection Training material are usually non-public, trainers are
inherently non-replicable
External ecosystem No
14. OSS Vendor Indirect Revenues
Business model
Vendor example Mozilla, most hardware suppliers
Number of cov. prod. Single or few
Economic advantage Source availability reduces engineering costs and increase
for the vendor visibility on multiple platforms
Economic advantage Adopters obtains a quality product at no cost; potential
for the adopter large ecosystem for extensions
Potential disadv. of Requires a large external market for incentives, may be
the model dependent on a single (or small number) of actors
increasing risk
Sale condition There should be an external source of revenue linked to
adoption (eg. Ecommerce sales of related products,
search engine back-payments, etc.) Usually linked to high
adoption numbers
Freeriding protection license choice, copyrighted and trademarked elements
included in the product
External ecosystem Yes
15. OSS Vendor R&D cost sharing, Open Inside
Business model
Vendor example Eclipse
Number of covered single or few
products
Economic advantage Reduction of R&D, reduced maintenance costs
for the vendor
Economic advantage (same as vendor- in this case, vendor and adopter
for the adopter coincide)
Potential Establishing the management and contribution structures
disadvantages of the may be complex and costly, requires constant effort
model
Sale condition Significant R&D costs, higher than the cost of
management of the shared community
Freeriding protection license choice
External ecosystem yes
16.
17.
18.
19.
20. ●
There is no “good” or “bad” model - there are
models that work and those that do not
● Models change with time, and market conditions
● To survive, you must understand what you are doing,
and what can be improved; a good way to do it is
using a business model schema
● In the Osterwalder model:
21. ● Customer Segments (For whom are we creating
value?)
● Value Propositions (What value do we deliver to the
customer? Which one of our customer’s problems
are we helping to solve?)
● Key Resources (What is essential for our work to be
possible?)
● Key Activities & Key Partners
● Cost Structure
● Revenue Streams (No, giving things for free does
not count)
●
Channels (How we reach our customers – or
potential ones)
●
Customer Relationships
22. ● The basic idea behind business models: I have
something or can do something, and it is more
economical to pay me to do or get this “something”
instead of doing it yourself. The most important
elements: customer segments and value
proposition
● With Open Source, usually “property” is non-
exclusive (with the exception of Open Core, where
part of the code is not open at all)
● The remaining element is efficiency, that is the
ability to perform an action with a lower cost (both
tangible and intangible)
●
Efficiency and property are the underlying
justification behind OSS business models
23. Property Efficiency
(Trademarks, source (Development
copyrights, patents, efficiency, marketing
contracts..) efficiency...)
Dual licensing, Aggregate support Product specialists,
Open Core.. providers, platform training, software
providers... selection..
● Exclusive properties are barriers that can be
enforced weakly or strongly (eg. Trademarks in
RHEL). Other barriers are convenience, control
24. ● Efficiency increases monotonically except when a
new technology is introduced, when effort stops
efficiency decreases (also monotonically)
If company stops
investing/researching
Efficiency
Introduction of
new technology
effort/research
25. ● Work necessary for a task is the inverse of
efficiency, and this provides an higher bound for
revenues:
“I'll do it myself” “We have done it
a few times”
“We do it for a
living”
Effort
effort/research
26. ● If no one pays me, my only possibility is to invest my
time to create something. In any case, I have
increased my efficiency in that activity
● I can trade this efficiency and convert it into money
if the work that I am doing is repeatable to a large
extent..
●
.. and thus you turn into a product specialist
●
You will be in business as long as the efficiency
differential is sufficient to provide a margin for your
activity (including overheads) and your research
costs (since you need to continue to maintain the
efficiency differential in time)
27. ● Anyone else can become a competitor, but he will
have to invest to reach your efficiency level (or he
will not be able to maintain competition for long)
● If you focus on a single step of the software
adoption cycle:
● ...you obtain as a result most of the possible business
models: training, legal support, aggregate support..
28. ● Difference between an open source company and a
proprietary one: the R&D sharing
● The main efforts that can be done to improve this
sharing advantage: increasing and facilitating
contributions, or the “platforming” (the use of your
product as a basis for something else)
● If you use property as a basis, to increase revenues
the best approach is not forcing monetization (as the
available budget remains zero) but customer
segmentation (who can be targeted for the
enterprise product? who can use the product as basis
for another service?)
29. ● Segmentation can be done across axes related to
relevant variables; for example, size (small,
medium, large), private company or public
administration...
● For each cell, list your offering and that of the
competitors; separately list the possible value
proposition for each cell obtained by customizing
your basic product
● Some market are more interesting than others; for
example if the market is too small or dominated by
an incumbent that has an inherent advantage, it may
be simply anti-economical to try to enter that
market without a compelling value proposition
30. ● In fact, the approach used to “force” people to pay
(for example by removing features from the
community edition) will not increase monetization in
a significant way, because those that are most
affected are those that have no budget available;
those people will turn to forks
● The company should target those non-users that
could become adopters, and at the same time
increase dissemination, as a fixed percentage of all
users will become paying in one form or the other
● “Viral” dissemination does not work across
different groups, so marketing is still essential, even
with an open source approach
31. Thanks!
Carlo Daffara
cdaffara@conecta.it
http://carlodaffara.conecta.it