Comments on: SE Radio Interview on Open Source Business Models http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/23/se-radio-interview-on-open-source-business-models/ Dirk Riehle's blog about everything computer science, applied and more Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dirk Riehle http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/23/se-radio-interview-on-open-source-business-models/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Dirk Riehle Sun, 18 May 2008 19:26:16 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=93#comment-226 Ah, OK. I'm not aware right now of any particular writings on this topic, though the blogs are of course full of claims (incl. mine) that open source represents an effective sales strategy. As a counter example, derived from yours, you can compare SalesForce.com and SugarCRM. It does not appear that SalesForce is slowing down because of Sugar, so there clearly is more to business success than Open Source (who would have thought :-) The way I hear it, first of all, the product needs to be right, and after that open source is an added benefit. Ah, OK. I’m not aware right now of any particular writings on this topic, though the blogs are of course full of claims (incl. mine) that open source represents an effective sales strategy.

As a counter example, derived from yours, you can compare SalesForce.com and SugarCRM. It does not appear that SalesForce is slowing down because of Sugar, so there clearly is more to business success than Open Source (who would have thought :-)

The way I hear it, first of all, the product needs to be right, and after that open source is an added benefit.

]]> By: Martin http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/23/se-radio-interview-on-open-source-business-models/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Martin Sun, 18 May 2008 19:05:49 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=93#comment-225 Dirk, I am asking if you know of any research/writing that explores how greatly disadvantaged a competitor is if it tries to compete with the originator of an open source product. A (very theoretical) example would be Siebel (Oracle) trying to compete with SugarCRM with a new product based on the SugarCRM open source codebase. Martin Dirk,

I am asking if you know of any research/writing that explores how greatly disadvantaged a competitor is if it tries to compete with the originator of an open source product. A (very theoretical) example would be Siebel (Oracle) trying to compete with SugarCRM with a new product based on the SugarCRM open source codebase.

Martin

]]> By: Dirk Riehle http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/23/se-radio-interview-on-open-source-business-models/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Dirk Riehle Fri, 02 May 2008 07:41:45 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=93#comment-198 Martin, thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you liked it. Are you asking about how a competitor is put at a disadvantage by a commercial open source firm's strategy, or are you asking how a competitor can utilize the open source firm's code base for its own advantage? Or, how the dual-license strategy hinders a competitor from using the open source firm's code base? Martin, thanks for the compliment, I’m glad you liked it.

Are you asking about how a competitor is put at a disadvantage by a commercial open source firm’s strategy, or are you asking how a competitor can utilize the open source firm’s code base for its own advantage? Or, how the dual-license strategy hinders a competitor from using the open source firm’s code base?

]]> By: Martin http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/23/se-radio-interview-on-open-source-business-models/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Martin Fri, 02 May 2008 07:21:37 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=93#comment-197 Very interesting interview. Refreshing to hear some straight talk about OSS business models. Do you know of any writings that deal in more detail with a competitor's disadvantages in using a competing company's open sourced code to build/enhance a competing product? Martin Very interesting interview. Refreshing to hear some straight talk about OSS business models. Do you know of any writings that deal in more detail with a competitor’s disadvantages in using a competing company’s open sourced code to build/enhance a competing product?

Martin

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