Open Source as a Business

A talk about open source as a business, what this means, and especially what this does not mean.

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1. Alexander Reelsen alex@elastic.co @spinscale Open Source as a Business
2. 2012
3. > 1000
4. > 20 offices
5. distributed
6. scalable
7. Elastic Stack
8. Open Source
9. Elasticsearch
10. Kibana
11. Logstash
12. Beats
13. APM
14. Open Code
15. Machine Learning
16. Security
17. Alerting
18. Monitoring
19. Management
20. SaaS
21. Elastic Cloud
22. Elastic Cloud Enterprise
23. Site Search
24. App Search
25. Use-Cases
26. logging
27. metrics
28. APM
29. operational analytics
30. security analytics
31. business analytics
32. full text search
33. enterprise search
34. The hard facts Open Source
35. What is Open Source? https://opensource.org/licenses
36. Are you …
37. … using Open Source?
38. … opening issues?
39. … contributing back?
40. tco
41. transparency
42. enthusiasts available
43. don't reinvent the wheel
44. obligation to contribute back
45. give away software for free
46. development model
47. There is no such thing! Open Source as a business model
48. 98.5% OF THE CODE EVER PUT INTO THE CORE OF PUPPET WAS PUT IN THERE BY SOMEBODY I PAID. Luke Kaines, founder of Puppet https://www.geekwire.com/2018/might-time-big-cloud-share-wealth-open-source-startups/
49. Open Source ≠ business model
50. open source companies
51. OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A BUSINESS MODEL - IT’S A DISTRIBUTION MODEL Shay Banon, CEO & Founder Elastic
52. adoption
53. top down
54. bottom up
55. training
56. support
57. certification
58. consulting
59. SaaS
60. commercial add-ons
61. orchestration & management
62. Risks
63. sustainable income
64. renewal rates
65. ease of use
66. consulting & trainings
67. competing products
68. cloud providers
69. lock-in
70. common goals
71. hidden agendas
72. dependencies
73. Elastic edition Open Source as a business model
74. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Open Source Commercial Support/Education/Consulting SaaS
75. 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Open Source language clients APM
76. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Open Source Commercial Support/Education/Consulting SaaS
77. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Commercial Monitoring Security Alerting Graph Machine Learning App Search Site Search SQL
78. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Open Source Commercial Support/Education/Consulting SaaS
79. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Support/Education/Consulting Support Training Consulting Specialization Certification
80. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 Open Source Commercial Support/Education/Consulting SaaS
81. t 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2017 2018 SaaS Elastic Cloud ECE
82. no enterprise version!
83. commercial code can be open!
84. community
85. … as a modern company culture Open Source
86. distributed
87. asynchronous
88. intrinsic
89. transparent
90. communication
91. burnout
92. technology as enabler
93. ‣ ... is more than just code! ‣ ... ≠ business model ‣ ... ≠ chaos ‣ ... can be in the DNA of a company Open Source
94. … ask all the things! have fun at Oktoberfest! Discussion
95. ‣ https://www.elastic.co/about/why-open-source ‣ https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open ‣ https://www.influxdata.com/blog/its-time-for-the-open-source-community-to-get-real/ ‣ https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1032115153335017473 ‣ https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand ‣ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoundationDB ‣ https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ Links