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Who Pays For Software? New and Old Business Models

Philippe attended an event titled Demystifying Open Source – How an Open Source Strategy Can Make and Save Money for Your Business.  He sums up statements by one of SQLFusion’s customer; the CTO of Del-Jen ( a Fluor company):

Over a period of 4 years the cost of open source software did go down. The more they use it the less it cost.
On the other end the cost of commercial software increased constantly during the same period. The cost includes licensing and consultin
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The product Fluor is using is Open Source Fusion Enterprise;  The small-business version, Open Source Fusion on-demand has opened for beta a few weeks ago.

Tomorrow I’ll be attending another event where I suspect we’ll hear a lot about Open Source: Who pays for software: new and old software business models – What’s next?

The panelists:
Josh Stein, Director, Draper Fischer Jurventson
Brian Bhelendorf, Founder and CTO of CollabNet.
Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO, Qualys.
Scott Dietzen, Ph.D., President and Chief Technology Officer, Zimbra
Marten Mickos, CEO MySQL.
Bernard Pesh, CTO of Salesforce.com.

This promises to be a hot event, pre-registration is now closed, but ad-hoc attendance appears to be open. Zbutton

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  1. Anonymous says

    How come there are no similar discussions in UK? I am interested in hearing the view points of MySQL and Salesforce.com. We use MySQL and may use SugarCRM.

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