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Can someone explain to me how open source products can generate revenues like this?
by mdevere 7y ago
Can someone explain to me how open source products can generate revenues like this?
- it33 7y agoMattermost CEO here, We looked at a lot of different models and ended up with a "buyer-based open core" model. The first "buyer" in this model is the user of our open source product that doesn't cost any money, because it's open source. It's typically a developer, or someone very close to a development team and they self-host Mattermost as an open source Slack-alternative and get a lot of value out of the product. At some point the development team doesn't want to host Mattermost themselves any more and asks the IT organization to host it in a data center or on a private cloud. The IT team is a different "buyer" who wants features that make the lives of IT administration easier--account sync with AD/LDAP, SSO, eDiscovery, high availability, etc.--and we have an enterprise edition for that buyer and offer a fair price. That's how we've been generating revenue so far.