InfoWorld: The Secret of Successful Open Source Companies (The JBoss Example)

“At OSCON next week, I’m giving a presentation entitled Making
Sales While Making Friends: Lessons Learned from Open Source
Businesses. I’m in the middle of preparing it, and also reflecting
on some conversations I had earlier this week with sales executives
from MySQL, Red Hat, JasperSoft, and SugarCRM.

“In the course of those conversations, I was surprised by how
differently we supposedly similar open source companies run our
operations. We’re each an open source company, but with varying
licensing, sales, and support models. That’s a good thing…”

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