“After the dotcom doldrums of the past five years, there is a
new wind blowing through the world of commercial software. It’s
open source, but not as we know it. The first-generation start-ups
like LinuxCare, TurboLinux and even Red Hat, were essentially
service companies. Today, an increasingly-favored approach is to
employ dual licensing to create two revenue streams: one based on
providing services for free software and the other through
traditional commercial licenses to products that are generally
based on the free software version.“A whole new generation of open source companies like MySQL,
SugarCRM and JasperSoft have shown that such an approach can be
highly successful, and this is encouraging others to adopt the same
model–Scalix is the latest to join the club…”
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