Re: [SL] Mailing list issue

[<sql...@li...>]

I would say previews is a much better word.
    Look at products like RedHat, Zimbra, KnowledgeTree, Hyperic,  
Compiere, SugarCRM, Funambol etc etc etc.  All of them have an OSS  
suite which is fully functional, powerful enough to get a good feel  
for what the products really do, and are actually sufficient for a  
certain percentage of users.  The add-ons, however, are compelling  
enough for the folks with a budget to go ahead and pay for the full  
version.  Dieter does that to some extent through the manual and  
support packages, and some OSS companies are able to make do that  
way, but it's a marginal existence at best.  The non-OSS module  
approach appears to be the most successful business model so far,  
(anomalies like Mozilla not withstanding!  :).


Thanks,

Michael



On Jul 13, 2009, at 2:41 PM, sql...@li...  
wrote:

I would have to disagree there,

I like that business model. I used Open Office and liked it and when I
needed more functionality I was happy to purchase Star Office. The same
was true of PGAdmin III and several other apps I use on a daily basis.

I loaded SQL and played with it enough to know it would suite my needs
so I bought the manual and a years subscription. If I upgrade I will pay
for another year and get a new manual but for now 2.6.22 is working just
fine and I'm not one of those patch happy people that need to have the
latest version fully updated.

I think of them as previews not teasers.

Jeff Roberts


sql...@li... wrote:
> And those companies that use OSS as a 'teaser', arent playing by  
> the spirit,
> and personally id never do business with them.
>
> On Monday 13 July 2009 04:19:17 pm sql-ledger- 
> us...@li...
> wrote:
>
>> This is why most of the larger OSS companies have a free and open-
>> sourced version which has enough bells and whistles to be interesting
>> but they hold back some modules that their actual target market would
>> require in production.  (The source for these modules is usually
>> still available as well but for paid subscribers only and obviously
>> not re-distributable!)
>>     They really get the best of both worlds this way with OSS
>> developers on the "team" often contributing to the non-OSS modules as
>> well.  There have been a few cases where specific non-OSS modules
>> were recreated by external OSS developers, (a good example is
>> Zimbra's backup function or some of KnowledgeTree's document
>> importing tools), but for the most part it's a model that works very
>> well.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>


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