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
   

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3. > 1000
   

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4. > 20 offices
   

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5. distributed
   

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6. scalable
   

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7. Elastic Stack
   

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8. Open Source
   

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9. Elasticsearch
   

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10. Kibana
    

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11. Logstash
    

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12. Beats
    

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13. APM
    

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14. Open Code
    

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15. Machine Learning
    

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16. Security
    

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17. Alerting
    

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18. Monitoring
    

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19. Management
    

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20. SaaS
    

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21. Elastic Cloud
    

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22. Elastic Cloud Enterprise
    

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23. Site Search
    

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24. App Search
    

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25. Use-Cases
    

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26. logging
    

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27. metrics
    

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28. APM
    

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29. operational analytics
    

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30. security analytics
    

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31. business analytics
    

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32. full text search
    

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33. enterprise search
    

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34. The hard facts
    Open Source
    

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35. What is Open Source?
    https://opensource.org/licenses
    

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36. Are you …
    

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37. … using Open Source?
    

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38. … opening issues?
    

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39. … contributing back?
    

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40. tco
    

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41. transparency
    

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42. enthusiasts available
    

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43. don't reinvent the wheel
    

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44. obligation to contribute back
    

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45. give away software for free
    

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46. development model
    

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47. There is no such thing!
    Open Source as a business model
    

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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/
    

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49. Open Source ≠ business model
    

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50. open source companies
    

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51. OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A BUSINESS
    MODEL - IT’S A DISTRIBUTION MODEL
    Shay Banon, CEO & Founder Elastic
    

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52. adoption
    

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53. top down
    

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54. bottom up
    

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55. training
    

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56. support
    

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57. certification
    

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58. consulting
    

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59. SaaS
    

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60. commercial add-ons
    

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61. orchestration & management
    

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62. Risks
    

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63. sustainable income
    

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64. renewal rates
    

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65. ease of use
    

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66. consulting & trainings
    

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67. competing products
    

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68. cloud providers
    

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69. lock-in
    

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70. common goals
    

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71. hidden agendas
    

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72. dependencies
    

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73. Elastic edition
    Open Source as a business model
    

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    language clients
    APM
    

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82. no enterprise version!
    

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83. commercial code can be open!
    

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84. community
    

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85. … as a modern company culture
    Open Source
    

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86. distributed
    

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87. asynchronous
    

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88. intrinsic
    

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89. transparent
    

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90. communication
    

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91. burnout
    

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92. technology as enabler
    

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93. ‣ ... is more than just code!
    ‣ ... ≠ business model
    ‣ ... ≠ chaos
    ‣ ... can be in the DNA of a company
    Open Source
    

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94. … ask all the things!
    have fun at Oktoberfest!
    Discussion
    

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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
    

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