Funambol Business Model: Matt Asay on Funambol’s approach

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 2, 2008
in Commercial OSS, Italians do it and Open Business Models
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Matt Asay went skying with Fabrizio Capobianco and explains the real market for Funambol.

Undoubtedly, Funambol could make money from enterprises, but why? It gains a great deal of value from this part of its community (read: device support, among other things), which it can then package up and sell to a different market (the service provider), with different add-on features that only the service provider wants or needs. It’s a very clean split between the two markets.

I wrote few times about Funambol’s “pyramidal market“, and I am really happy to read that Funambol is cash-flow positive, and I am looking forward to talk with Fabrizio next week at the Open Source in Mobile conference.

Technorati Tags: Commercial Open Source, open business, business model, fabriziocapobianco, funambol, OSIM

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.