Joomladay Nl 2009 - Business Models

Why Freedom makes
for a better business
model
Johan Janssens, Director, Nooku.org

Joomladay NL, June 2009 - Nieuwegein

"Success consists of going from failure to
failure without loss of enthusiasm. “

Winston Churchill

Johan Janssens - http://www.nooku.org

Freedom


Crowd Question

Open source is free (gratis) as in free beer ?

Answer
NO

Freedom doesn’t mean free of charge !
vrij ≠ gratis
fri ≠ gratis
frjáls ≠ ókeypis
vapaa ≠ ilmainen
frei ≠ kostenlos
libre ≠ gratuit
freedom libre ≠ gratuito free
of speech libero ≠ gratis
dror ≠ chinam
beer
azad ≠ rayegon
aazad ≠ muft
swatantra ≠ vina mulya
shadhi nata ≠ bine poisha
sudandram ≠ ilavasam
svobodnoe ≠ besplatnoe


Freedom success stories

Success story Freedom
eBay Trade
Google Advertising
Skype Telephony
Second life Social life
Youtube Video production
Linux Operating system
LAMP web applications
Ikea Furnishing
Joomla Websites

Open Source


Crowd Question

Open source is a business model ?

Answer
NO

Free / Open Source Software
• Not a mystery
• Not a religion
• Not a charity
• Not anti-commercial
• Not against ownership
• Not socialism
• Not a business model

A smarter way to produce the software
and a smarter way to distribute the software


Pursuit of Software Freedom and Proﬁts

Success in open source requires you to serve

1. Those who spend time to save money

2. Those who spend money to save time

Differentiation drives the compelling reason to buy,
but incorrectly implemented it may also drive the
”compelling reason to abandon”


Open Source business models are hybrid

Software is free, but:

1. … we need donations and subsidies to survive(Apache
Software Foundation, Eclipse, ObjectWeb)

2. … we sell ads and placements (Mozilla)

3. … if you embed it in closed source, you pay a fee
(Trolltech, DB4Objects, Funambol, MySQL, etc.)

4. … services are for a fee (Covalent, Ubuntu/Canonical)




5. … on-going maintenance, monitoring and provision of
binaries is for a fee (Red Hat, JBoss, MySQL)

6. … some enterprise features are for a fee
(SugarCRM, Zimbra, JasperSoft)

7. … we built a closed-source product around it
(EnterpriseDB, GreenPlum)

8. … hardware is for a fee (Sun, Asterisk/Digium)




9. … we sell everything else on the planet, including
closed source software (IBM)
10. … that's not our real business (Ruby on Rails,
individual contributors, etc.)

11. … we regret it (Borland with Interbase)

12. … we don’t want to see it any more (any good
examples?)



13. … we want to drive web trafﬁc (Yahoo YUI)

14. … since we bought Sun and now we are stuck with it
(Oracle)


Joomla!


Crowd Question

Joomla is not a product, it's a project ?

Answer
YES

Barriers to Open Source adoption

1. Lack of formal support and services.
2. Velocity of change.
3. Lack of roadmap.
4. Functional gaps.
5. License types.
6. Lack of endorsements

open source projects generate software, they do not
generate ‘whole product’


The Open Source principles

1. Free as in ‘Freedom’ Not ‘Zero cost’
2. Principle of ‘Openness’
3. Principle of ‘Transparency’
4. Principle of ‘Early and often’
5. Expectation of ‘Community’

The community is a byproduct of the project. The
project is a byproduct of the open source principles.


Crowd Question

Is there a Joomla business model ?

Answer
YES

Commercial Open Source - The Beekeeper


Commercial Open Source - The Beekeper


Summary


Summary

• FOSS business won’t work unless you serve both
those who spend time to save money and those who
spend money to save time

• Open source projects generate software, they do not
generate ‘whole product’. Commercial open source
does.

• It is early and the FOSS industry is still experimenting
with business models


Questions ?
http://www.twitter.com/johanjanssens


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