Dear Daniel, An interesting text and good starting point for award winning dissertation (-: I guess I am the one of the responding "experts" (-; , who mentioned gvSIG. I think there is a small misunderstaning in the interpretation of my message. I only mentioned gvSIG, meaning to provide you with a clue for further research, not judging the project itself. Did you contact gvSIG community to get further information - eg. metric data? Otherwise the sentence: The "gvsig" was mentioned as an experience developed in Valencia, Spain. But again it did not contain metric data about its use. Apparently it is a system that was not experienced enough to generate a sufficient comparative data to be considered in a commercial business venture. would be a bit hasty (-;
I should also mention companies on the top of FOSS4G developments - leading the communities - an example would be the Deegree project. You can find more of those in CASCADOSS documentation files: http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=16<http://www.cascadoss.eu/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=67>. But again - this is only the starting point for further research in your topic. Some semi-metric could be Economical Potential - a part of CASCADOSS evaluation - which " goal is to evaluate that how economical is the adoption and operation of the OSS software in subject comparing to proprietary ones." I am looking forward to your findings! (-: Best regards: Raf Dr. Rafal Wawer K.U.Leuven R&D Division SADL (Spatial Application Division) Celestijnenlaan 200e bus 2224 BE-3001 Leuven-Heverlee Belgium tel. 0032 16 329731 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of daniele.ocu ocu Sent: 14 December 2009 21:20 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Question about FOSS4G Business Models Dear all, I would like to thank you very much for your answers and ideas to the email I sent asking about the FOSS4G Business models. As promised in the, I have produced a brief report about what was discussed during the conversation on the topic. The report is available in the following link: http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gistrends/?q=node/bus regards, Daniele On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:02 PM, daniele.ocu ocu <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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<http://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 -- 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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