Open Source Company and Business model

Oct, 2014

开源公司与商业模式

Agenda

> Overview people of open source in China– Past and Present

> Overview open source business model– Listing one by one

> Overview of Job Market in China > Current and future business related to Open

Source

OPENSOURCE IN CHINAView of Open Source Environment

MERITOCRACY 科举Who is doing open source in China?

http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-shots.html

Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) 苏哲

> Bundle in multiple distribution (before) Input method framework

> Ex-SUSE, Senior Engineer at Google

Linux Virtual Server (LVS) 章文嵩

> Load Balancer in Linux Kernel

> Important for Linux Cluster implementation

> VP and Chief Researcher at Taobao

> Nick 正明

MiniGUI 魏永明

> MiniGUI Embedded GUI system on top of multiple operation system including Linux/uCLinux, eCos,VxWork etc

> Mobile, Browser > Founder of 飞漫科技

Deepin Linux 冷罡华

> Used to call Hiweed Linux

> Wuhan Community

> Linux Distribution

Sorry but who?

Yeah, they are from the mid 90s

So we know China started mid 90s … What have they become?> Senior Engineer at

Top global Company> VP and Researcher at

Top China Company> Founder and CEO of a

niche China Company

How do I related? > I’m young and no real

experience.> Yeah… they are as old

as my father… or at least uncle

AronXu

> Debian Developer> Maintain fcitx> Ubuntu Translation

Coordinator> University Student

GitCafé 姚欣宇

> Git Online Service> Open Source

Community > Startup like GitHub> Founder of GitCafe

United Stack 程辉

> Open Stack contributor

> Ex-Sina Engineer> Startup like Digital

Ocean> Founder of United

Stack

Open source hero among us

马云说：人家给投你钱是一种尊重

OpenSource Business model

Dual License and Professional service

> Commercial License and Open Source License – SUSE Enterprise,

OpenSUSE– Red Hat Enterprise,

Fedora– Canonical, Ubuntu– MySQL

… estimation by me … > Red Hat 13-1500

Million > SUSE 2-300 Million > MySQL 2-400 Million> Canonical 3-50 Million

Software as a Service

> Cloud Service with open source core and commerce service online– SugarCRM– Magento – Drupal– GitHub

… estimation by me … > SugarCRM 7-120

Million > Magento 5-80 Million> Drupal 6-80 Million > GitHub 2-60 Million

Voluntary Donation and Branded Merchandise

> Funding development for Open Source Software or Selling T-Shirt and Coffee Mug to user community– Mozilla Foundation– Apache Foundation – Gnome Foundation

… estimation by me … > Mozilla 1-2 Million > Apache 8-900

Thousand> Gnome 4-500

Thousand

Advertising Supported Software

> Using advertising money to support development – Mozilla– SourceForge

… estimation by me … > Mozilla 3-50 Million> SourceForge 20-30

Million

Crowd Funding / Bounties Service / Out Sourcing

> Using crowd funding platform like kickstarter and indiegogo to fund development – BountySource – Individual Freelancer

… estimation by me … > 50-200K per person

per year

Investment and buy out

> Not really a business model, but able to gain resource from big company interested– MySQL– Cygnus Solutions– JBoss

> MySQL 1 Billion by Sun

> Cygnus 670 Million> JBoss 420 Million> SUSE 220 Million

WHAT KIND OF JOB?Global View of Employment

CHINA SOFTWARE MARKETHow much are you going make?

http://www.hkfashiongeek.com/2011/07/hero-shots.html

What is the market look in Hong Kong?

http://hk.jobsdb.com/hk/en/staticcontent/job-seeker-salary-survey/2014/salary-bonus-and-double-pay.htm#engineering

What is the market look like in Beijing?

http://www.jobui.com/

How many people in there?

You know where you are now?

> Junior– 8K to 18K to 28K– 50% below

• 2K steps• 8K – 170• 10K – 440 • 12K – 920• 14K – 1500• 16K – 1900

Indicator (指標 ) vs Goal (目標 )

> What is your Goal? Philosophical problem?> Money != Happiness ? So what? > Why someone invest you? > How are you investing your time?> Which topic are you going to work on?> Are you picking a Job? Or a Career path?

Daniel Pink: Drive The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

What is Post Employment Economy?

Maybe not in China yet

WHAT TO INVESTOpenSource Related Company in China

Take a look at US?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-post-employee-economy-why-sky-high-profits-are-here-to-stay/259564/

Profit

Salary vs GDP

TECHNOLOGY TRENDCan you predict your future?

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139779301/foreign-policy-a-predictable-future-for-technology

CLOUD COMPUTINGYeah I heard of openstack and ?

What are the five essential characteristics

> On Demand Self service > Board network accessible> Resource Pooling> Rapid elasticity > Measured Service

Who get the most benefit of?

> Enterpise?> SMB?> Startup?> Individual?

Open Source tech related to Cloud

China Cloud IaaS Company

BIG DATA / COMMERCEYeah I heard of hadoo and ?

What is big data?

> High Volume> High Velocity> High Variety> ….. Veracity

Who get the most benefit of?

> Enterpise?> SMB?> Startup?> Individual?

China Big Data Company

Open Source Commerce Platform

OPEN HARDWARE / IOTHaha this is what I’m doing!

What is Internet of thing IoT?

> 1) Hardware Sensor ( Control Point, NFC, Ibeacon etc )

> 2) Communication Protocol ( 6Lowpan, MQTT, COPA )

> 3) Big Data ( Cloud Storage, Data Warehousing ) > 4) User Analytics

Nest

Open Hardware and Software

Arduino Raspberry Pi

Ardenta OpenCNC

China Open Hardware Company

phantom

radxa

PICK YOUR OWN FIGHTDo whatever you wanted to!

Maybe there won’t be another Red Hat

But Open Source is everywhere now

And I’m still using SUSE Linux to build my Android project

THANKS SUSEMay the source be with you!