A presentation describing the various open source business models, show casing the MARSSA open source project which is hosted by MARSEC-XL.

1. University of Manchester trip to Malta
Zak Borg
MARSSA project Lead
Zak.borg@marsec-xl.org

2. The business of
Open Source
software
MARSEC12-819 MARSEC-XL Foundation

3. What do we mean by open source?

4. “Describes practices in production and
development that promote access to the end
product's source materials”

5. The leaders driving open source

7. Why use open source ?

10. The Pizza model
Too often, businesses need to develop software with the same "ingredients"
as everyone else, and this offers no competitive advantage. If everyone wants
the same pizza, why not share the cost?

11. Projected cost to come up with
another Linux…
€8 Billion

12. In the late '90s, Microsoft secretly
developed its own version of Linux,
but shelved it after quality control
researchers deemed it "too stable“
Instead spent €421 to fight Linux !!

13. Collaboration is the key to success!

14. Community driven development

15. People from different walks of live all
working together on the same
challenge.
A community of developers, designers
all dedicating their free time to the
development of the project
Thousands of testers & developers

16. Innovative business models

19. “We’ve got a shot at really pulling together to
turn upside down the way we approach the
challenges we are facing in the world and look
at them in a brand new entrepreneurial way.”

20. Open source business models

22. Flip side business models

23. • Per-unit royalties
• NREs (non-recurring engineering fees) for integration & production
• Subscriptions for product updates & support
• Certification and compliance testing fees
• Hardware sales
• Insurance for product liability and indemnification
• Sharing development costs
• Dual licensing

25. Apple Inc. offers Darwin for free, while selling Mac OS X.
MySQL is offered for free, but with the enterprise version includes support
and additional features.
Oracle - Virtual Box is free and open-source to anyone, but the VirtualBox
extension pack can only be used for free at home, therefore requiring
payment for business
Sun Microsystems offer OpenOffice.org for free, while selling Star Office.

27. Use open source technologies and
have zero start up costs

28. Open source projects

29. = An “innovation hotspot” for all marine
software systems. MARSEC-XL serves as a
neutral ground where internationally
leading brands, start-up companies and
academic institutions work
collaboratively.

30. MARine Systems Software Architecture
www.marssa.org

31. Opening what is closed
The first open source project in the
marine industry

32. Instead of competing on the platform, MARSSA
enables companies around the globe to
compete on the innovations.
Music Route planner
Navigation
Infotainment
Sensor data Motors
MARSSA

33. The fast path
January 2010 – Concept launched
February 2011 – Work started on Reference Architecture & MARSSA footprint
March 2011 – MARSSA Officially launched
April 2011 – MARSSA concept presented at LinuxCon in San Francisco
May 2011 – MARSSA invited by Intel to show case in San Francisco
August 2011 – MARSSA Demonstrator launched
September 2011 – MARSSA Reference architecture V1 released.
October 2011 – Isle Of Open Source, First MARSSA conference.
November 2011 – 120 active members!.
2012 – MARSSA FP7 project

37. € 200
For hardware &
software
€ 150
For installing
software

38. We all interact with Open Source
Software