The proliferation of open-source software into the technology industry has had an important effect on how people work. Open-source companies often stood at the forefront of remote-first work, and now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, open-source com

What Companies Look for When Acquiring Open-Source Companies

Jun 28th, 2021 33m 47s

In a groundbreaking acquisition, IBM acquired Red Hat, a company that open-sources all of its products, for $34 billion in 2019. This changed the paradigm of open-source acquisitions, after all, this meant that IBM saw value in a purchase of so

The Business Model of the Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

Jun 21st, 2021 37m 45s

In the third part of our examination of some of the business models being powered by open-source software, we explore the space of the digital experience platform. One of the obvious advantages of a platform — open-source or proprietary — is th

The Business Model of Productized Professional Services

Jun 14th, 2021 33m 55s

In the second part of the three part series, we examine another business model of the open-source software economy: the productized service. Unlike the models to support commercial open-source software, productized services take the need for op