[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Question about FOSS4G Business Models

[Rafal Wawer]

Dear Daniel,
An interesting text and good starting point for award winning dissertation (-:
I guess I am the one of the responding "experts" (-; , who mentioned gvSIG. I think there is a small misunderstaning in the interpretation of my message. I only mentioned gvSIG, meaning to provide you with a clue for further research, not judging the project itself. Did you contact gvSIG community to get further information - eg. metric data? Otherwise the sentence:
The "gvsig" was mentioned as an experience developed in Valencia, Spain. But again it did not contain metric data about its use. Apparently it is a system that was not experienced enough to generate a sufficient comparative data to be considered in a commercial business venture.
would be a bit hasty (-;

I should also mention companies on the top of FOSS4G developments - leading the communities - an example would be the Deegree project.
You can find more of those in CASCADOSS documentation files: http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=16<http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=67>. But again - this is only the starting point for further research in your topic.
Some semi-metric could be Economical Potential - a part of CASCADOSS evaluation - which " goal is to evaluate that how economical is the adoption and operation of the OSS software in subject comparing to proprietary ones."

I am looking forward to your findings! (-:

Best regards:
Raf


Dr. Rafal Wawer
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From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of daniele.ocu ocu
Sent: 14 December 2009 21:20
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; marketing at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Question about FOSS4G Business Models

Dear all,

I would like to thank you very much for your answers and ideas to the email I sent asking about the FOSS4G Business models.

As promised in the, I have produced a brief report about what was discussed during the conversation on the topic.

The report is available in the following link:

http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gistrends/?q=node/bus

regards,

Daniele

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:02 PM, daniele.ocu ocu <daniele.ocu at gmail.com<mailto:daniele.ocu at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

A friend of mine at a medium-sized IT company in Japan needs to convince his
company management and finances to invest in FOSS4G technologies
over the next 5 years. The company presently does a small part of
its business using FOSS4G tools but is wondering if it should take
a deeper plunge into the FOSS4G world.

In order to convince the company management and finance departments, they need
to produce a document with concrete data about how companies elsewhere in the world
are profiting, growing, increasing market share and the kind of clients
that they are catering to. Even company brochures, financial reports
etc. would help.

The company also wants to consider marketing broad based services for
SDI using FOSS4G technologies and would like to know market potential
in other countries and region for SDI related services.

Since a part of my Master thesis deals with business models for
FOSS4G, I find their situation interesting and would like to help
them to take a deeper plunge into the FOSS4G world. In order to help
prepare a brief report for them including some statistical information
about few of the bigger players in FOSS4G business.

It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community could
provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only
help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it
(I am already convinced, but need some data to support my
claim) but also help me to understand the business models better.

If you want to keep your inputs confidential, you are welcome
to contact me off-list (daniele.ocuATgmail.com<http://daniele.ocuATgmail.com>). Names, names of companies will be kept
confidential (just call them company A,B,C etc) in the final report. Once the report is ready
It will be shared it as an open document under appropriate
CC license, if that is desired.

The report needs to be ready in three weeks, I look forward
for the inputs.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards

Daniele


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Researcher @ Osaka City University
Graduate School for Creative Cities
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gistrends

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
- Charles F. Kettering




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Researcher @ Osaka City University
Graduate School for Creative Cities
http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gistrends

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
- Charles F. Kettering

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