Having had a day to ruminate about the Open Source Business Conference 2008, a few key takeaways advocate themselves. It was by far the best OSBC yet, with a far more diverse audience and talking faculty that we’ve had before. This naturally leads to a diverse set of “conclusions” arising from the event:
- Enterprises love open source but the business models necessary to fuel both their happiness and that of the vendors still need a lot of work.
Jon Williams of Kaplan Test suggested in his keynote, as Dirk Hohndel captures, that the more happy he is with his commercial open-source software, the less likely he’ll be to pay for it. Why? Because his developers will acquire the expertise over time to support themselves and because the product will mature to the point that support will be less necessary.
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