Open Source as a Business

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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