On January 30th, US Eastern China Time (Beijing time on January 31) opportunity. MATRIX PARTNERS VAT Company's ordinary partner David Schick said, "Open source software is rising, which provides a good opportunity for major companies to enter the corporate market. At the same time, the quality of software products will continue to improve. "
Open source companies such as SourceLabs, Spikesource have entered the corporate market, and they provide open source software and related services to the enterprise. The main representative of open source software has Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python, and LAMP. Schick said, "Many companies are unwilling to deal with small companies, so they are looking for big manufacturers. As JBoss, companies offer many small open source projects, and entert their brand."
Marten Mickos, Mrsql AB, said that he entered the open source business is, "For the long-term interests, for us, the open source business can reduce marketing costs and product development costs. We entered the 'mysql product' in the Google search engine, we found that the results were wrong, and then we have to correct them. "Mickens said that self-interest is not an open source. He said that people have written programs with open source code because they want to learn things, they want to show things, they want to fix things, their move is in a heart.
At the same time, Schker said that from an investor's perspective, he was surprised to find this business very amazing. "We invest $ 10 million in JBoss, but they don't have to spend money. If you want to do things Open source software, you have to have a very good community so you can innovate products. "Micks also agreed to the role of the community, but said that" the open source community does not represent the innovation of open source. Orland has a very good community, Microsoft The company also has a nice community and developer ecological environment. "The Red Hat Private Division is responsible for the investment of operating system development, Brian Stevens, said that it is a successful open source company," you need more Value, you will be smart, you have to learn. "
Stevet said that the development of open source software has many basic business models. One of them is that the dual authorization mode. According to GNU GPL (General Public License), the company provides products free of charge and then charges users who want to use for commercial purposes. Another support mode, that is, the company's free software, but charges charge. The third mode is to provide software versions for free, and then charge upgrade fees. The Stevens of Red Hat Company said that the open source model "applies to us because the technology has a high complexity", it requires technical support services. He said that the more software is more complicated, the more providing the company's opportunity to carry out open source business. He pointed out that IBM is a large company, gaining a lot of income in open source software, "They are ready to invest in Linux, IBM's main competitors in hardware are Sun, but after passing into the Linux system, IBM's service and hardware sales business is high. "Steven agreed," For IBM, this is an exciting change. If you want to be a sponsors, you are best sponsored ip. Therefore, Patented manufacturers began to enter the Linux market. "
Steve said that Sun is very different. "I think SUN is now in trouble, and their business operation model has a serious problem, but when Sun is adjusted, the company's shareholders may be difficult to overcome. This is Intel's economic rules, Sun has become Intel sales. On the one hand, Sun has to lose the advantages of Solaris and its hardware products. On the other hand, Sun must compete with Dell Company. "For Sun Open Source Solaris, he pointed out that" Sun said the company will open 1600 patents, but You may see a pure print version. "More importantly," SUM's biggest fierce is that the company has to lose its two markets: financial services and telecommunications markets. "He said that now, there are about 20% of the financial service market. Business running Linux system. He recently communicated with the financial services company, which said that the budget of SUN products in the past is about $ 2 billion, and this budget is only $ 500,000, "they began using Dell, HP and IBM products in the Linux system." Stevens expressed appreciation for a series of measures adopted by Sun Company, but he said, "This is not a return, and the efforts to join the open source community with IBM, SUN tries to establish its own developer community." At the same time, Schker said that he is paying close attention to the CRM software provider SugarCRM, "We are working closely, see if there will be a similar community to help spread open source CRM products."
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