How to leverage:
1. open source software, (most of player created some dedicated sw on top of open source sw, besides service and contract business)
2. power of community
3. open source business model, sucessful story
3.1 CollabNet
OpenSource Thought Leader and CollabNet Founder Brian Behlendorf http://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/04/07/distributed-development simplified-collabnet-founder-brian-behlendorf-part-1/
- 利用OPEN SOURCE SW，低成本優勢，創設新公司
- Brisbane, Calif.-based CollabNet
Collaboration software, Subversion, www.collab.net, fund: Benchmark Capital in July of 1999.
The term free software made it sound like an anti-capitalist movement, yet the reality is we were hardcore capitalists. We liked a lot of the attributes of that type of software and felt a re-branding effort was needed. That is when the term OpenSource was coined.
"how the community formed, how it accomplished tasks, how it made decisions and what tools were needed to support the effort."
Appache share: 65%
Red Hat emerging as support organizations
to do in more abstract form. My goal was to distill it down to a science, make it repeatable, and take the answer to the rest of the software industry.
software as a service, charge per user per month
Product strategy: Any Subversion is all of Subversion, open source. Instead, CollabNet provides another, larger product: CollabNet TeamForge, a product that would be much less valuable without Subversion (which is what justifies our investwith ment), but clearly a different product providing integration with commercial tools.
3.2 SpringSource
enterprise Java
We had five founders, and we bootstrapped the company with consultancy.
- consulting and training
Writing the book, to help build my personal brand as a consultant. - At first with Spring it was the same mentality, but it rapidly became apparent that it was at another level. Downloads went from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions.
- Fundamentally our model is one that recognizes that the OpenSource software is great. It is better than any other alternatives, but we provide things around it which make Spring better, and we charge for those additions.
3.3 SugarCRM
From Dyslexia to SugarCRM: John Roberts
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2008/12/11/5178/
- I started looking at business two ways. There is the traditional way, which is to hire engineers, get product managers, write your MRD, and because you are the smartest people on earth you build it in secret and launch it with an expensive sales force. I started to question that process. Does that manufacturing process really result in the highest quality, most innovative software on the planet?
- The mentality was that geeks were not going to be interested in things which solved business problems.
- We all resigned together and started SugarCRM on April 10, 2004, without any angel or VC money. It was the three of us, each in his own house with headphones on, writing and designing code and posting it up on SourceForge.net. We did that for three months.
We chose to give away everything we wrote from scratch. Meanwhile we had mortgage payments and three pregnant wives. We had no income, and we were giving away everything we were working on.
When people found out we were OpenSource there was hesitancy.
- The three editions are Sugar OpenSource, otherwise known as the Community Edition, which is totally free. The second edition is Sugar Professional, which is sold under a subscription similar to RedHat Enterprise Linux. The difference is we own the copyright. We provide a one-page commercial license that says not to redistribute it. We also have our Enterprise Edition, which has about 25% more functionality. It also comes with support and training, both on-site and on-demand.
3.4 XMIND
open source free mind map software with 2 edition
1. free
2. time-limited per user charge
