" Feature sponsorship works to a point but there is always a portion of code development that no one wants to sponsor "
Well, if you would respond to sponsor requests ... I've tried to contact you guys multiple times for a sponsored development, but nobody reacted. In the mean time I solved my problems myself. Perhaps I can sell my solutions to you? -- Toni Van Remortel System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV +32 3 451 92 20 - [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Peel Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:01 PM To: Opsview Users Subject: Re: [opsview-users] Moving towards two Opsview editions - Community and Enterprise I can never understand why companies can’t make their money from offering services around the product. i.e: The problems with a purely service based business model are: - It doesn't scale well. Generally you're billing for consulting time at an hourly / daily rate and there is a limited number of these you can bill for each member of staff per month. - Margins are pretty low if you take into account average utilisation of each staff member, sales overhead, etc. This leaves a limited budget to fund the software you're giving away for free in order to drive services revenue. - Feature sponsorship works to a point but there is always a portion of code development that no one wants to sponsor Offering Opsview in a SaaS model is interesting, I'm not sure how well monitoring software lends itself to this model though. There are some use cases where it will work, but many where it won't. These should be considered my opinions rather than those of Opsera Limited. -- James _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/listinfo/opsview-users
