Overview open source business model and company around China. Help open source developers or students to evaluate what have been done and how to pick their career path accordingly

1. Open Source Company and Business model
开源公司与商业模式
Oct, 2014

2. Agenda
> Overview people of open source in China
– Past and Present
> Overview open source business model
– Listing one by one
> Overview of Job Market in China
> Current and future business related to Open Source

3. View of Open Source Environment
OPENSOURCE IN CHINA

4. Who is doing open source in China?
http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-shots.html
MERITOCRACY 科举

5. Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) 苏哲
> Bundle in multiple
distribution (before) Input
method framework
> Ex-SUSE, Senior
Engineer at Google

6. Linux Virtual Server (LVS) 章文嵩
> Load Balancer in Linux
Kernel
> Important for Linux
Cluster implementation
> VP and Chief
Researcher at Taobao
> Nick 正明

7. MiniGUI 魏永明
> MiniGUI Embedded GUI
system on top of multiple
operation system
including Linux/uCLinux,
eCos,VxWork etc
> Mobile, Browser
> Founder of 飞漫科技

8. Deepin Linux 冷罡华
> Used to call Hiweed
Linux
> Wuhan Community
> Linux Distribution

9. Sorry but who?
Yeah, they are from the mid 90s 

10. So we know China started mid 90s …
What have they become?
> Senior Engineer at Top
global Company
> VP and Researcher at
Top China Company
> Founder and CEO of a
niche China Company
How do I related?
> I’m young and no real
experience.
> Yeah… they are as old
as my father… or at least
uncle

11. AronXu
> Debian Developer
> Maintain fcitx
> Ubuntu Translation
Coordinator
> University Student

12. GitCafé 姚欣宇
> Git Online Service
> Open Source
Community
> Startup like GitHub
> Founder of GitCafe

13. United Stack 程辉
> Open Stack
contributor
> Ex-Sina Engineer
> Startup like Digital
Ocean
> Founder of United
Stack

14. Open source hero among us
马云说：人家给投你钱是一种尊重

15. OpenSource Business model

16. Dual License and Professional service
> Commercial License and
Open Source License
– SUSE Enterprise,
OpenSUSE
– Red Hat Enterprise,
Fedora
– Canonical, Ubuntu
– MySQL
… estimation by me …
> Red Hat 13-1500 Million
> SUSE 2-300 Million
> MySQL 2-400 Million
> Canonical 3-50 Million

17. Software as a Service
> Cloud Service with open
source core and
commerce service online
– SugarCRM
– Magento
– Drupal
– GitHub
… estimation by me …
> SugarCRM 7-120 Million
> Magento 5-80 Million
> Drupal 6-80 Million
> GitHub 2-60 Million

18. Voluntary Donation and Branded Merchandise
> Funding development for
Open Source Software
or Selling T-Shirt and
Coffee Mug to user
community
– Mozilla Foundation
– Apache Foundation
– Gnome Foundation
… estimation by me …
> Mozilla 1-2 Million
> Apache 8-900 Thousand
> Gnome 4-500 Thousand

19. Advertising Supported Software
> Using advertising money
to support development
– Mozilla
– SourceForge
… estimation by me …
> Mozilla 3-50 Million
> SourceForge 20-30
Million

20. Crowd Funding / Bounties Service / Out Sourcing
> Using crowd funding
platform like kickstarter
and indiegogo to fund
development
– BountySource
– Individual Freelancer
… estimation by me …
> 50-200K per person per
year

21. Investment and buy out
> Not really a business
model, but able to gain
resource from big
company interested
– MySQL
– Cygnus Solutions
– JBoss
> MySQL 1 Billion by Sun
> Cygnus 670 Million
> JBoss 420 Million
> SUSE 220 Million

22. Global View of Employment
WHAT KIND OF JOB?

23. How much are you going make?
http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-shots.html
CHINA SOFTWARE MARKET

24. What is the market look in Hong Kong?
http://hk.jobsdb.com/hk/en/staticcontent/job-seeker-salary-survey/2014/salary-bonus-and-double-pay.htm#engineering

25. What is the market look like in Beijing?
http://www.jobui.com/

26. How many people in there?

28. You know where you are now?
> Junior
– 8K to 18K to 28K
– 50% below
• 2K steps
• 8K – 170
• 10K – 440
• 12K – 920
• 14K – 1500
• 16K – 1900

29. Indicator (指標) vs Goal (目標)
> What is your Goal? Philosophical problem?
> Money != Happiness ? So what?
> Why someone invest you?
> How are you investing your time?
> Which topic are you going to work on?
> Are you picking a Job? Or a Career path?

30. Daniel Pink: Drive
The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

31. What is Post Employment Economy?
Maybe not in China yet

32. OpenSource Related Company in China
WHAT TO INVEST

33. Take a look at US?
Profit
Salary vs GDP
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-post-employee-economy-why-sky-high-profits-are-here-to-stay/259564/

34. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139779301/foreign-policy-a-predictable-future-for-technology
Can you predict your future?
TECHNOLOGY TREND

35. Yeah I heard of openstack and ?
CLOUD COMPUTING

36. What are the five essential characteristics
> On Demand Self service
> Board network accessible
> Resource Pooling
> Rapid elasticity
> Measured Service

37. Who get the most benefit of?
> Enterpise?
> SMB?
> Startup?
> Individual?

38. Open Source tech related to Cloud

39. China Cloud IaaS Company

40. Yeah I heard of hadoo and ?
BIG DATA / COMMERCE

41. What is big data?
> High Volume
> High Velocity
> High Variety
> ….. Veracity

42. Who get the most benefit of?
> Enterpise?
> SMB?
> Startup?
> Individual?

44. China Big Data Company

45. Open Source Commerce Platform

46. Haha this is what I’m doing!
OPEN HARDWARE / IOT

47. What is Internet of thing IoT?
> 1) Hardware Sensor ( Control Point, NFC, Ibeacon etc )
> 2) Communication Protocol ( 6Lowpan, MQTT, COPA )
> 3) Big Data ( Cloud Storage, Data Warehousing )
> 4) User Analytics

48. Open Hardware and Software
Nest
Arduino Raspberry Pi
Ardenta OpenCNC

49. China Open Hardware Company
phantom
radxa

50. Do whatever you wanted to!
PICK YOUR OWN FIGHT

51. Maybe there won’t be another Red Hat
But Open Source is everywhere now
And I’m still using SUSE Linux to build
my Android project

52. May the source be with you!
THANKS SUSE