>Open sourcing will make the product better, will make it well known and might even speed up our growth. Open source by itself won't do any of those things. T

>Open sourcing will make the product better, will make it well known and might even speed up our growth. Open source by itself won't do any of those things. The question is, what advantages would being open source give you over remaining closed source? Whether it is open or closed, you still have to do the promotion to make it well known. If you go open source, does that automatically mean you will open the development process as well, and if so, you'll have to consider the process by which you accept changes into your product, IE: will there be an open level and then a supported "commercial" one, for example? how will you build a team of community supporters? Yes, there are obviously examples of open-source success in the world, but it isn't clear from your posting whether there is a strategic advantage or not.