Open Source as a Business Strategy, Struggle & Success Philipp Krenn 44444444 @xeraa

https://twitter.com/geowolf/status/ 971811346823221248

Ninety-eight-point-five percent of the code ever put into the core of Puppet was put in there by somebody I paid. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-big-cloud-share-wealth-open-source- startups/

Open Source ≠

Business Model

Developer !

Where is the ! "

?

Services Support, Consulting, Training, Certification

https://investors.redhat.com/~/media/Files/R/Red-Hat-IR/documents/q418-fact-sheet.pdf

Support Problem Ease of Use

Support Problem Renewal Rates

Service Problem Consulting-Only Competition

Open Core

Problem Alternatives

Problem Cloud Providers

Problem Lock-In

Cloud Service

Problem Cloud Providers

The intent of open source software was not so that someone else can take the exact same software and offer it as a service. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-big-cloud-share-wealth-open-source- startups/

Struggle

[...] If you are MSFT and I ask you if you’ve used Redis and you say "you mean Azure Redis Cache?", that’s not a good sign. https://twitter.com/jensenharris/status/984268950136537088

If you are claiming your startup/company is open source and you aren’t contributing to some form of upstream... then you aren’t really. Sorry not sorry. https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/954802380125736961

If you’re unhappy with an open source project you’re entitled to a full, immediate refund to the $0.00 you paid for it. Alternatively, get involved with the project to make it better. https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid/status/970000490468708352

Venture Capital Accelerated development vs business dynamics

Where is the ☢ ⚠ ☣ ?

Development Hobbled Product vs Starving Company

Releases Multiple Products vs Proprietary Plugins

Open Open Source vs Open Code

Commercial Features Engineering (Open Source) vs Sales (Commercial)

Elastic's Strategy

Support & Plugins

All Code Open Not Open Source — Apache 2 & Elastic EULA

Training Consulting

https://elastic.shop

Conclusion

Business Is Optional

Business Is Complicated

Questions? Philipp Krenn 444 @xeraa