From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 114f47,9a16bb5c96f2f36a X-Google-Attributes: gid114f47,public From: "Stephen Maudsley" Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Date: 1999/04/22 Message-ID: <7fnjv5$bo2$2@plutonium.btinternet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469614368 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <371B6EC8.36B9C247@pwfl.com> <7fftel$6po@drn.newsguy.com> <371B9A5E.2804AC27@pwfl.com> <371E21B3.7C7616FD@pwfl.com> <371E9BA0.7F070ACC@well.com> <371F3734.F47236E2@pwfl.com> Organization: esgem limited X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Stephen Maudsley" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.software.config-mgmt Date: 1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Kingdon wrote in message news:p4waew0y94u.fsf@panix7.panix.com... > > Its pretty much a conglomerate of stuff that is by its very nature > > multi-user/multi-platform and typically calls for a lot of custom > > support and hand-holding. > > Well, that might be an argument for open source rather than an > argument against it. The big problem with trying to sell open source > software via support contracts is that most users don't really > need/want the support. But if the nature of the product is that most > users will need some customization and help, then that particular > problem isn't as bad (now, it isn't really the way to get massive > numbers of sites using it, but it might work out for sites which want > to deal with this). > > For an example of this business model, see > http://www.onshore-timesheet.com/ - this used to be a non-open-source > product but they made it open source because they figured most of the > money was for the customization and other services rather than the > license anyway. Or http://www.zope.org/ is perhaps a better example > (in which it was, interestingly, the venture capitalists who decided > on open source when the technical people in the startup had been > scared to take the plunge). Too early to tell whether this will be a > financial success for onShore or the Zope guys, but it strikes me as a > workable model. We may well go for an Open Source product release later this year for much the same reason - we're still quite a small company dealing with some large manufacturers and Open Source makes them much happier to deal with us. The financial relationship will be much the same with or without it and I have good sight of where the codes will go. -- Stephen Maudsley mailto:Stephen.Maudsley@esgem.com Esgem Limited: embedded system design http://www.esgem.com Tel: +44-1453-521626 Mobile: +44-370-810991 Personal pages: http://www.esgem.com/people/Stephen.Maudsley