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Open Source Business Models: Joint Research Announcement

Filed under: Commercial OSS, My Meetings — by Carlo Daffara at 7:45 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I am extremely happy to announce the start of a new joint research activity between the FLOSSMETRICS project and Roberto Galoppini, one of the most important European researchers working on FLOSS-based business models. The joint research work will be carried with Carlo Daffara and will be centered on business models taxonomies, and how the participant actors (like the FOSS communities, commercial companies, individual developers) and the licensing choices interact in a commercial exploitation context. The research will leverage the tools and research work carried in the European project for analyzing OSS project participation and contributions, and as for all of FLOSSMETRICS will be publicly avaliable.

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Comment by Savio Rodrigues

July 25, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

Congrats Roberto! Look forward to seeing results from the research. Will you be studying the use of OSS by Traditional software vendors (like IBM, Oracle, Sun) to drive their Traditional software revenues?

Savio

Comment by Carlo Daffara

July 26, 2007 @ 7:37 am

Dear Savio,
yes, the study on how OSS models are used in traditional commercial software companies is one of the aspect of our research. We expect to produce in the end a set of papers helping companies assess existing OSS projects and how to compare the potentially applicable business models to decide the most appropriate one. We hope to turn the results of what is basically software engineering research (as FLOSSMETRICS is) into a more concrete and helpful tool for companies interested in OSS.

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