Business Business feed

Open source products must create enough differentiated value that customers will voluntarily pay for them versus another (or free) product.

Moving work online created challenges and opportunities for innovation in 2020.

Differences emerge based on company size, according to Tidelift's third managed open source survey.

Product managers play an essential role in creating differentiated value that customers will pay for.

Contributing to open source prevents complacency and teaches people the value of giving to the greater good.

Differentiation is what makes a product successful. Learn more in part two of this series on open source in the software supply chain.

Instead of asking whether open source is a development model or a business model, start thinking about it as a supply chain for your products.

BlueSpice is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki but its features go far beyond its noble ancestor.