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Open Source Business Strategy: About the Open Source Whole Product Concept

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Roberto Galoppini
on April 24, 2009
in Commercial OSS, Mobile and Open Business Models
. 6 Comments

James Dixon keeps updating his “Beekeeper model“, analyzing and discussing open source business strategies, now giving a closer view at the importance of the productization process.

Commercial open source, as James states, exists just to deliver software as whole product: an out-of-the-box, easy-to-consume, packaged-and-delivered, risk-free solution.

Learning to walk on the tight-rope
Italian whole organic product, by fensterbme

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Open Source Business Strategy: Feedback on the Beekeeper Model Revisited

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Roberto Galoppini
on April 11, 2009
in Commercial OSS, Open Business Models and Random thoughts
. 1 Comment

James Dixon - Pentaho Chief Technology Officer - about two years ago wrote the “Beekeeper model“, telling the word about how open source firms writing the majority of the code make business.

Now James released the first draft of the new version asking for comments, and I am glad to give him some feedback again.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
I am a specialist in Commercial Open Source Software, consulting on marketing and business strategy. I help organizations to build new business strategies for the open source economy. I speak widely on open source and open standards throughout the world.