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What about Cloudera?
Cloudera is primarily a consulting company, as are most open-source companies. There have been only 3 successful open source companies ever: MySQL, Jboss, and Redhat
Just because you can make money with open source doesn't mean it is a good business model.
Indeed. That's never been in dispute. You can also make money playing violin in the subway. The thing is, if you want to make money, there are a lot better ways to make money than playing violin in the subway. And if you want to make money with software, there are a lot better ways to do it than to give your product away and hope that some of your users will give you charity or pay you for support. Wait until we see…
Or how about OnVelocity? They provide a source code repository and have hosted version.
Or SugarCMS ?
Or couchdb with couchbase?
It seems to me that there are plenty of Saas companies that share their products as open source.
Indeed. That's never been in dispute. You can also make money playing violin in the subway. The thing is, if you want to make money, there are a lot better ways to make money than playing violin in the subway. And if you want to make money with software, there are a lot better ways to do it than to give your product away and hope that some of your users will give you charity or pay you for support. Wait until we see…
There's a balance between monetizing before the next quarterly earnings call and developing a real product.
I believe free software is an industry-wide sea change and any company that fails to adapt will go the way of the dinosaur.
I've also seen plenty of people try to argue that you can't make money on free software. I'd like to discuss it – anyone around here feel that way?
I am just surprised that in 2013 we are still having this discussion. There are several ways "to make money with OS"; Service-based models (like support), Dual-licensing models (think Qt, MySQL, etc), Community vs "Enterprise" packaging, Extensions to popular packages, Consulting, Platform ownership, etc etc etc. Why such big surprise?!?
That said, if you're not using open source software as part of your infrastructure, keeping only the 'crown jewels' proprietary, you're probably doing it wrong.
Indeed. That's never been in dispute. You can also make money playing violin in the subway. The thing is, if you want to make money, there are a lot better ways to make money than playing violin in the subway. And if you want to make money with software, there are a lot better ways to do it than to give your product away and hope that some of your users will give you charity or pay you for support. Wait until we see…
Mmhh how about Automatic with wordpress?? They give their product for free and yet have a SaaS ? Or how about OnVelocity? They provide a source code repository and have hosted version. Or SugarCMS ? Or couchdb with couchbase? It seems to me that there are plenty of Saas companies that share their products as open source.
"Indeed. That's never been in dispute."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about Cloudera?
Cloudera is primarily a consulting company, as are most open-source companies. There have been only 3 successful open source companies ever: MySQL, Jboss, and Redhat
Indeed. That's never been in dispute. You can also make money playing violin in the subway. The thing is, if you want to make money, there are a lot better ways to make money than playing violin in the subway. And if you want to make money with software, there are a lot better ways to do it than to give your product away and hope that some of your users will give you charity or pay you for support. Wait until we see…
You can pay us to make your life easy, or you can maintain everything yourself.