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Commercial & Open Source Software
1. Commercial & Open Source Software
Erick Watson
US Business & Marketing Organization
Microsoft Corporation
2. Separate Competition from the Discussion
Development Business Licensing Open
Models Models Models Standards
Role of IP, Economics, Public Policy…
Product Competition, Consumer Choice
VS.
3. Software Production
Academia Community Commercial
(traditional)
Governments
Hobbyists Competition Freeware
Industry Open Source
(Non-Software)
Functionality
IT Development Public Domain
Software Shareware
Vendors Intellectual Property
There is no “correct” way to produce software
Interaction of multiple models has produced best results
Development model has little impact on production use
4. Commercial and Non-Commercial Software
Non-
Commercial
Commercial
Open
Commercial Software
Free
Commercial
Public
OSS
Tech Transfer
>60K software companies producing >180K products
Millions of apps custom developed by orgs for in-house use
Tech transfer of R&D has been critical to software industry
5. OSS and Commercial Use
IBM Customer Red Hat
Apple Benefit CollabNet
SUN VA Systems
SAP Ximian
Software SuSE *
Oracle
Business Sendmail
Microsoft
Model MySQL
RealNetworks
Sleepycat
OSS is positive influence for most major software companies
Increased product and services competition benefits customers
OSS vendors are directly commercializing their solutions
Customer demand for value is still primary driver
* Recently acquired by Novell
6. Competitive Landscape
IBM
Linux ($ + heads + OSDL + LSB = Control)
Apache – Board of Directors, contribution, inclusion, leverage
Eclipse – SUN compete, Java community strategic play, Websphere support
ISVs – second “big bet”
Hardware & Services – revitalize PPC, SUN compete, strengthen services
contracts
Red Hat
“Winner” of Linux market consolidation
Heavy commercialization – negative for community, positive for customers
Not invested in OSDL or LSB – putting R&D into distro testing and ISV
integration
Novell
OSS-O-Matic – acquired SuSE & Ximian
Big question mark is execution and corporate culture integration
Microsoft is their key target – not SUN
7. Competitive Landscape cont ...
SUN
Desktop is focus - $ & heads in desktop and OpenOffice
OSS putting extreme pressure on any commercial Java strategy
Linux is a SUN server business threat
Intel
Drive x86 success…and repeat – OSDL (carrier grade Linux focus)
Tools to support ISV community
HP
OSS project office - >200 projects in process
Hardware – largest Linux hardware distributor, printers
Legacy – migration path for HPUX community
SAP
SAPDB – drive commodity into database market
OSS investment minimal - $ + heads into My SQL and Eclipse only
Oracle
Linux – commodity pressure in OS space drives down TCO for their solution
Appearance of community involvement rather than heavy investment
8. Who/What To Watch
MySQL – innovative business model, disruptive for Oracle
& MS
JBOSS – disruptive for IBM, BEA & MS
MONO - .NET on Linux
SAMBA – NT4 implications
Eclipse – OSS IDE, commodity pressure in tools space
OSDL – Linus lives there, core Linux direction
Black Duck (and similar) – not OSS, but implication for
litigious environment