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 | | Open Solutions Alliance | November 2008 |
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Special Economic Opportunities Edition, Part 2
The conventional wisdom that commercial open source does better in a downturn may still be true, but the current economic crisis adds a new twist as budgets are frozen and IT layoffs mount. This month we look at the front lines to see how two OSS warriors are faring in the market.
| OSA MEMBER INTERVIEW
Subscriptions, Hosting and Solutions with Rapid Payback Will Flourish
Leading up to the credit and stock market crunches, Adaptive Planning racked up its best quarter ever based on the strength of its SaaS pricing model and hosted solutions. CEO Bill Soward says those strategies, along with new solutions offering rapid payback for customers will see OSS companies through the lean times. |  |
| OSA MEMBER INTERVIEW
Look for an Uptick in New Projects
Noting that IT projects are still necessasry, Tom Berquist, CFO at Ingres, expects a shakeout as companies that had planned projects involving high upfront license costs pull out in favor of equivalent enterprise open source solutions. Times look good for companies offering subscripition-based pricing. | |
| | Copyright 2008. OSA Alert is published by the Open Solutions Alliance. Please contact the editor, Dominic Sartorio, with your questions, comments and reprint requests. |
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OSA Events
| Several OSA members will exhibit at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
March 10-11, 2009
An updated version of OSA's Common Customer View project will be demonstrated at Solutions Linux |
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