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Open Source as a Business

Open Source as a Business

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

Alexander Reelsen

October 01, 2018
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  1. Alexander Reelsen
    [email protected]
    @spinscale
    Open Source as a Business

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  2. 2012

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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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    APM

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    Monitoring
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    App Search
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    ECE

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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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