Hi, 2010/10/14 balaji sivanath <[email protected]>
> how people doing business using opensource software. Most of the business involves "SELLING" support. Support (directly from the company or its partners) costs money. True, there are people on forums and mailing lists who can help a lot. But if an enterprise is involved, it would be good to have a paid subscription for support since mission critical systems need "instant" fixing in case they get into trouble. > , for eg. canonical ltd. provides ubuntu > os for free of cost even they are shipping cd for free,there is a team > to work who is paying them. how they run the organization without > getting penny amount from people. > I hear that "Mark Shuttleworth" (who founded and probably is funding canonical) is a "very rich" entrepreneur. He's the second self-funded space tourist !! He is a venture capitalist and has his own private jet. That apart. Canonical also sells support. One other business model is to make some components of the eco-system commercial. For. e.g. Canonical has "Landscape" which is a "configuration management system" ( to put it simply ). Users have to pay for Landscape subscription. Read up on : Landscape, canonical and mark shuttleworth. And about open source business models on wiki. HTH Yogesh. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
