Building a commercial open source software company: a decade of changes

Paul Fremantle

Building a commercial open source software company: a decade of changes

Paul Fremantle

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This paper is based on personal experiences in building a venture-capital backed Open Source company, starting in 2005. WSO2 is now a company with hundreds of customers including major brands like eBay, Boeing, Fidelity, Trimble, UBS, and many others. For example, eBay’s systems running WSO2’s servers handle more than 6 billion requests per day. In that time there has been a significant shift in the business models, approaches, funding and valuations of Open Source Software companies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Open source systems
Subtitle of host publication	adoption and impact
Editors	Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, A. I. Wasserman
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Pages	XIII-XIV
ISBN (Print)	978-3319178363
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2015

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Building a commercial open source software company: a decade of changes

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