Hi Peter,
thanks for the support. Our business model is based on providing fee-
for-services to biopharmaceutical customers:-
1) integrate the open source tools within the customer's own IT and
scientific environment;
2) modify/change these tools if necessary to make these tools meet the
customer's own requirements and expectations;
3) apply these tools on specific customer-specified drug discovery
projects to help with the identification and optimisation of novel
compounds.
The added-value for Silicos in supporting an open source model results
from the fact that no license costs are involved for the customer
after installation of the tools - this lowers the entrance barrier to
fee-for-services significantly. Second, the global support froma
dynamic open source community lead by a couple of scientists makes
that new features can become rapidly tested, debugged, and
implemented. Third, feedback provided by the customers can easily be
integrated in new updates of the software, which results in a gradual
improvement of the code in the course of time and therefore a win/win
situation for all parties involved (clients, service providers like
Silicos, and the open source community).
Cheers,
Hans
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:11 , Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Hans De Winter <[email protected]
> wrote:
Dear all,
Silicos NV is pleased to announce the release of its newest open
source program STRIPPER v1.0.4, built on top of the Open Babel 2.3.0
C++ library.
[for details see Blue Obelisk mailing list]
Again I congratulate the commercial sector in making core code
available for the community to use and if necessary re-use and
repurpose. It is difficult to show the world the value of Open
Source and Open Data and this is a very valuable example.
Do you have a public justification for this business model? That
would be useful in helping us build a general case for this type of
action.
--
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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