Business models in open source software: Do they exist?

Sergio Vasquez Bronfman, Francesc Miralles

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As Open Source Software (OSS) industry is moving quickly to a strong commercial orientation, the question of business models is becoming relevant. While investigating which business model works best for the majority of Spanish OSS companies, two relevant questions emerged: i) are these models specific of the OSS industry, or one can find them in the whole software industry?, and b) are these models a practical tool for OSS entrepreneurs? First results show that Spanish OSS companies usually start as services providers only, but after a while move to a hybrid of software developers (either open source or propietary) and service provider; and that business models don't guide OSS entrepreneurs' practice.

Idioma originalInglés
EstadoPublicada - 2007
Publicado de forma externa
Evento12th International Conference of the Association Information and Management 2007, AIM 2007 - Lausanne, Suiza
Duración: 18 jun 200719 jun 2007

Conferencia

Conferencia12th International Conference of the Association Information and Management 2007, AIM 2007
País/TerritorioSuiza
CiudadLausanne
Período18/06/0719/06/07

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