Open Source as a Business - Strategy, Struggle & Success

Explore the challenges and strategies of building a successful open source business in this 50-minute Devoxx conference talk. Delve into three essential elements: strategy, struggle, and success. Learn about monetization approaches for open source products, including support, open core models, and cloud services. Examine how to manage community expectations while dealing with venture capital investments. Discover ways to balance open source principles with commercial success, aligning engineering and sales decisions. Use Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as a case study, while also analyzing approaches from other companies in the field. Gain insights into contributing back to open source, dealing with cloud providers, partnerships, certifications, and building a commercial ecosystem. Address concerns about maintaining open source integrity, timing releases, and handling freeloaders. Conclude with a Q&A session to further explore the complexities of open source business models.