This is a presentation held at eLiberatica 2008.
http://www.eliberatica.ro/2008/
One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
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9. The 5 million EUR Company
â—Ź That actually is a 250 million EUR Company
10. About eZ
● The World´s largest Open Source Enterprise
Content Management software company
– More than 200 000 installations
– More than 2,4 million downloads
– More than 230 global partners
– More than 4000 paying customers
– More than 28 000 registered community members
13. The Enterprise Open Source
Business Model of eZ
â—Ź 100 % Open Source delivered with Total
Product Responsibility
Proprietary model EOS by eZ
Services Services
Maintenance and Maintenance and
Support Support Subscriptions
Licenses
Licenses
16. Value!
â—Ź The Enterprise Open Source Business Model
creates unique value for money!
– More efficient development model
– More efficient distribution model
– More efficient support model
17. Less risk!
â—Ź Investment protection from the combination of:
– 100 % Open Source
– A large Ecosystem
– Total Product Responsibility
18. â—Ź How many ECM providers will there be in 5
years?
19. Consolidation in a growing market
â—Ź Industry consolidation
â—Ź Enterprise consolidation
â—Ź Globalization
â—Ź More mature and demanding customers
â—Ź Niche Specialization
21. And the winners are!
â—Ź The ones being able to reach a critical size
â—Ź The ones serving the most demanding
customers
â—Ź The ones that are most efficient at innovating
together with these customers for solving their
needs
â—Ź The ones that are most efficient in distributing
and providing solutions to these customers
22. Some hard facts from eZ...
â—Ź Spain 2008: Top tier proprietary vendors give
away their license for free...but still loose the
deal
â—Ź New York 2007: Customer writes off a 1 million
USD license 3 months after they bought it...and
implements an open source software (eZ)
instead...
23. Why do this happen?
â—Ź Open Source provides a real alternative
â—Ź Which not only provides a lower cost
â—Ź But a better solution
â—Ź Delivered at a much quicker time to market
â—Ź Giving an unbeatable TCO