There is one particular book i found very insightful in this area. Its titled developing business models for internet, found it at book foundation about four years ago, makes for very good reading and analyzes the different models from a business perspective and looks at critical challenges and benefits. I lost the book, anyone had a copy? Mc graw hill i think. Def a good starting point. On 8/9/09, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
No offence Evans, but i think it is important to analyze successful enterprises and why they have succeeded. Enthusiasm and passion I'm afraid are just not enough.
In order for us to find out how to progress we need to analyze the success stories and the failures rationally. Why is it that Google/Apache/Mozilla/PostgreSQL and Oracle/Microsoft/SAP succeeded and so many others have failed?? We must analyze this in conjunction with the queries I had asked earlier. It is not enough to say that 'it just works'. If we don't know how it works, how will we recreate the circumstances leading to their success?
I think it also make little sense to limit analysis to OSS. The proprietary s/w industry has precisely the same challenges if not more, given their competition is free. How do they address this and succeed?
How can the best of both worlds be combined to solve our immediate problems?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
If there was no credible "business models" for free and open source software, then we would not be having any success stories to talk about in FOSS. But there are hundreds if not thousands of FOSS products out there. It just goes to prove that Open Source works. Granted there are always challenges, but somehow it works and many times with better products than proprietary alternatives.
Ikua
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Steve, sawa I shall rest my thread. However, as soon as is possible upon completion of my learning curve, I shall be setting up a site and start doing some basic development from there. I know what Im saying but it may not sound correct. Lets give it time and see how things work out. In the case of linux ubuntu and developing a dialer, all am saying is this as an example. If safaricom did not take up the suggestion ( as expected ), there was nothing stopping from developing it for ubuntu and localised it for free ( during free time ). Can you imagine all those who love php and mysql and build around it, did not have access to such or had to pay thousands?
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