A look at the
market – the success of open-source
businesses.
The Open-Source Gold Rush,
Success Stories:
In the last years there have been many open-source success stories,
e.g., Kubernetes, MongoDB, Kafka, elastic, Cloudera, etc. are very successful. There seemingly is a lot of money in open-source businesses.
How do you
build a
business on open source:
There are two major methodologies of
building a business on open source:
1 using open-source software for free and building something around it to earn money.
2 Developing a solution and open sourcing it or parts of it as part of the business. model.
