Starting from the Linux operating system and Apache server software, open code software has appeared widely, which has aroused alertion of commercial software vendors Microsoft and IBM. At present, open code software has appeared in various fields of application software, from the portal to BPM (Business Process Management), and the application software is endless. The price of prices is for VAR, the most concerned issue is how much it can be earned. Gluecode is an emerging software company, and its own business operation is completely based on open code software. The company has launched a series of software, BPM, and workflows, such as a series of software, which does not need to build the entire system from scratch, saving time and funds. With this strategy, Gluecode simply charges a one-time open code license fee to customers in developing and selling self-branded software and services. Gluecode's products have a great advantage in prices by users or by user or by CPU. Products such as IBM, BEA, and Oracle are generally based on J2EE architectures, and Gluecode CEO Winston Damarillo believes that the company's products are a useful supplement. Although many people dismissed this statement, Damarillo is full of confidence. He said: "We will tell customers, buy our products more value. Compared with J2EE suppliers such as BEA, our price is lower. And, customers can get our source code, after customers can do according to their own needs Modify. Customers don't need to worry about how much your CPU is, how much users are, and we are unified to charge authorization fees. "Gluecode is using Apache, which uses the BSD authorization mode, which means that the company does not need to add the code added. Open code is open. In other words, after the Apache open code is made, the company has intellectual property rights to the part of the change. Similarly, if the company's customers or partners do further changes on this, they will also enjoy intellectual property rights for their partial changes. Damarillo said that this is also the charm of the BSD mode, and developers can obtain partial income while ensuring software quality and integrity. In contrast to the BSD mode, the GPL mode of open code will be mandatory to be mandatory in accordance with any changes made in the GPL mode, and become a new development code. Damarillo said: "GPL mode is limited. If you do not allow development code to customize and profit, this market is unhealthy." So far, Gluecode's operation has also received a good return. The company has three years of history. The business income in the first quarter of 2004 increased by 100% year ago. The average scale of the company's order is $ 100,000, although it is not more than IBM's order scale, but also goes. Gluecode realizes that companies must learn from certain practices of commercial software vendors to win the trust of ISV, system integrators and customers. The company provides customers with 24-hour technical support, and is willing to help customers test software-changing software to ensure that the software can be compatible with the company's newly released software. Gluecode also attaches great importance to the signing of the customer, which has become one of the main source of income of the company. In order to further promote the development of open code software, the Apache software organization even launched the J2EE application server software for open code. Engineers from Gluecode also participated in this project. Gluecode hopes to combine itself with Geronimo. The official news of the Apache software organization claims that the release of Geronimo will expand the category of open code software commercialization. Geronimo will compete with JBoss and Red Hat Application Server, compete with WebLogic and WebSphere, and other commercial application servers.
