Having had the chance to chair the Open Source Analysts session at the Open World Forum I want to share here some takeaways. Matthew Aslett, senior analyst at the 451 group, opened the session anticipating some results from the upcoming revision of the “Open Source is NOT a business model” report, due between the end of October and the beginning of November. Continue reading ‘Notes from the Open Source Analysts Summit 2010′
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The Open World Forum has concluded and it was another great success. The “Open Innovation Awards” this year have been awarded to the following companies: Disruptive Innovations (for the BlueGriffon project), Jaspersoft, Obeo (for the Acceleo project), Talend and XWiki.
SOS Open Source today had a closer look at XWiki, below a small excerpt of the analysis.
The Open Innovation Demo Cup - a contest open to all open source projects and solutions getting ready for commercial launch or already on the market - will be held at the next Open World Forum on the 1st of October. Continue reading ‘Open Innovation Awards 2010: The Demo Cup’
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The Open World Forum - now at its third edition - will take place in Paris on 30 September and 1 October 2010, bringing together open technology decision-makers from around the world. Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: The Program is On-Line!’
The FLOSS roadmap 2020, now at its third edition, has now opened the call for contributions. I asked Jean-Pierre Laisne - Chief and Open Source Strategist at Bull, OW2 President and coordinator of the roadmap - to tell us more about the new edition. Continue reading ‘FLOSS Roadmap 2020: Call for Contributions’
The deadline for the call of proposals of the third Open World Forum - to be held in Paris, 30 September - 1 October 2010, plus an optional Geek Day on 2 October - has been extended from March 30 to April 15.
Continue reading ‘Open World Forum 2010: 19 Days Left For Apply’
Since last week I started to cover the “Open Innovation Awards” winners, assigned at the Open World Forum 2009.
Let’s have now a closer look at Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, now powering over 32800 different sites.
The following 5 “Open Innovation Awards” were assigned on Friday afternoon at the Open World Forum held in Paris. This year a jury of ten international open source experts considered as the most promising and representative of open innovation the following companies: Bonitasoft, Kaltura, Scaledb, SonarSource and Ulteo.
Let’s have a closer look at all of them by alphabetical order.
Bonitasoft, a provider of open source BPM software, recently raised 3 Millions from Ventech and Auriga Partners:
“The team, the business model, and the BonitaSoft solution completely captivated us. Given the reputation that this BPM solution has in the open source community, we are confident that BonitaSoft will contribute to the ‘democratization’ of BPM in business through its technological innovation” says Claire Houry, Ventech. “BonitaSoft has everything it needs to quickly become the open source BPM leader in the marketplace,” says Philippe Granger, Auriga Partners.
The idea of ‘democratizing’ BPM sounds fascinating, but justifying a BPM project maybe not trivial. Download numbers - if these were meant to mean anything - are ’big’ (140.000) considering that we are talking of a BPM software, but converting users into customers is a different matter.
While Intalio - probably the most famous open source BPM player around (see 2008 BPM Gartner’s magic quadrant) - goes commercial by layering editions (open core), Bonitasoft today generates revenues only through support subscriptions and services. The business model paragraph of their manifesto reports:
BonitaSoft will develop additonal versions of Bonita with professional grade technical support and advanced features to facilitate collaborative work and to industrialize Bonita deployments. BonitaSoft reserves the right to give access to these versions on a subscription basis to its customers only.
My suggestion in this respect is: the sooner the better, upselling is hardly welcomed by the users, and being clear about the business strategy can help potential customers to make their decisions.
From a community standpoint, Bonitasoft is starting to get traction, at least in terms of bug reports and feature requests, much less in terms of code contributions.
Sharing R&D costs doesn’t appear to be a major concern at the present stage, along with standards co-creation and alike.
BonitaSoft business strategy might take inspiration from Talend, but they need to work hard on fostering their ecosystem, provide third-parties with documentation and tools to ease extending the platform and maybe consider to move (also) in the cloud.
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