When The 451 Group approached Marketcetera 2 months ago to contribute to a commercial open source report, we weren’t quite expecting the end result to be titled, “Open source is not a business model.”
The analyst firm surveyed 114 open source companies, including Marketcetera, on their business strategies. They sought to answer the question that plagues every open source vendor at cocktail parties and VC pitches alike: “How DO you make money if you give your product away for free?” (more…)
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