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Weblog:   White Knights and Open Source business models
Subject:   Six Different Open Source Ecosystems
Date:   2005-11-30 09:13:29
From:   fdomke
One needs to ’buy’ the ecosystem that supports the software. In order to help enterprises understand those ecosystems, Business Integration Technology has identified six basic open source business models: the “Lite” version of a commercial product, enterprise vendors embrace of open source to show “I’m Open”, the spin-off of commercial “Legacy” products into open source, the dual strategy of free and supported “Parallel Universes,” the “Jump Start” opening of an un-launched commercial product, and true open source “Community” projects.


You may find our white paper on this topic interesting:


http://BusinessIntegrationTechnology.com/PDF/OpenSourceBusinessModels.pdf