Building a business on Open Source

Open Source in the Cloud

Outline

A bit of history

Examples

Relevant Opportunities

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History

@wikipedia

1983 :GNU … 1989:GPL … 1991: Linux … present - collaborative development

Opportunities"In the middle of difficulty lies

opportunity.“

Albert Einstein

“Open-source software is free if your time is worth nothing.“

Marten Mickos

Major pain points

each one has exceptions

Pain #1: Installation process

difficult setup procedure lacking documentation

Pain #2: Documentation

developer centric & lacking

Pain #3: Usability

combined with lack of documentation leads to

disaster

Pain #4: Support

an active community is not enough

Pain #5: Bug fixes

users != developers

What about The Cloud?

Software as a Service built around Open Source

just one of the many business models

No installation required

elastic architecture point and click interface

Good documentation and support

provided as part of the subscription

Fast bug fixes

dedicated paid development team

A Win - Win Scenario

Examples

index - spot

improved on-site search & content filtering

" thousands tiny search engines "

built around ...

the cloud is just a distribution platform

Thanks! Questions?

Andrei Savuhttp://www.andreisavu.ro/