A Never-Ending Dream » Industries http://aneverendingdream.com My journey of building a visionary company Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:16:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Open Source Puzzle http://aneverendingdream.com/2006/08/24/open-source-puzzle/ http://aneverendingdream.com/2006/08/24/open-source-puzzle/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:49:06 +0000 Vincent Chan http://aneverendingdream.com/?p=15 Last year, VLAB had a speaker event related to the open source industry. Douglas Leone, partner of Sequoia Capital, argued with Marc Fleury, Founder and CEO of JBoss, that Open Source companies can never be a BIG company. They can only be a 20-50 million (sorry, I forget the exact amount) business.

It is true that JBoss is acquired by Red Hat for approximately $350 million. But can Open Source companies succeed on their own? It will be interesting to see how things turn out in the future. Is it possible for a Open Source company going public, besides Red Hat, and continuing to have strong performance? We’ll see about that.

One of the more famous UCLA alumni, Guy Kawasaki, just had an interview with Marten Mikos, CEO of MySQL. If you are interested in the business model of Open Source companies, this article can definitely provide you some insight into this industry.

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