Hi all, A friend of mine at a medium-sized IT company in Japan needs to convince his company management and finances to invest in FOSS4G technologies over the next 5 years. The company presently does a small part of its business using FOSS4G tools but is wondering if it should take a deeper plunge into the FOSS4G world.
In order to convince the company management and finance departments, they need to produce a document with concrete data about *how companies elsewhere in the world are profiting, growing, increasing market share and the kind of clients that they are catering to*. Even company brochures, financial reports etc. would help. The company also wants to consider marketing broad based services for SDI using FOSS4G technologies and would like to know market potential in other countries and region for SDI related services. Since a part of my Master thesis deals with business models for FOSS4G, I find their situation interesting and would like to help them to take a deeper plunge into the FOSS4G world. In order to help prepare a brief report for them including some statistical information about few of the bigger players in FOSS4G business. It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community could provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it (I am already convinced, but need some data to support my claim) but also help me to understand the business models better. If you want to keep your inputs confidential, you are welcome to contact me off-list (daniele.ocuATgmail.com). Names, names of companies will be kept confidential (just call them company A,B,C etc) in the final report. Once the report is ready It will be shared it as an open document under appropriate CC license, if that is desired. The report needs to be ready in three weeks, I look forward for the inputs. Thank you in advance. Best regards Daniele -- Researcher @ Osaka City University Graduate School for Creative Cities http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gistrends "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." — Charles F. Kettering
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