To license, not to license or how to license
Yesterday Didier, CEO ecenter solutions, and I had a very nice and fruitful conversation with Stephen Walli, VP Open Source Development Strategy at Optaros.
ecenter solutions is the spin-off company of the Helvetia Patria Group, managed by Didier and myself.
In the past 6 years we have developed a flexible, J2EE based e-insurance platform, which today includes 26 productive applications in four countries, with another 14 applications currently planned or in the implementation phase. The productized version of this group wide e-insurance Software will be distributed together with suitable services to the European insurance market. Intensive contacts with first potential customers in Switzerland, Denmark and Russia are really promising. So we have to hurry up with the definition of our terms and conditions and license model. And here, believe it or not, the headache begins...
We are convinced users of (mature and field tested) Open Source Software (OSS) products. An important and continuously increasing part of our solution stack is based on Open Source Software. Therefore we will offer our own solution based on a brand new licensing model, which will be very close to the open source license models. The main principles of OSS communities will be adopted within our Open Customer Community. Thus our customers will benefit from the principles and characteristics that make OSS so attractive.
Stephen showed to be an excellent support and consultant for the definition of our unique licensing model. Therefore we agreed to collaborate with him and we are glad to benefit from his expertise.
Thank you, Stephen for your precious help. And thanks to Bruno von Rotz (Optaros VP, Country Manager, Switzerland) for having introduced Stephen in our license development process.
Have also a look at those interesting blogs regarding OSS, licensing models, patents, etc.
ecenter solutions is the spin-off company of the Helvetia Patria Group, managed by Didier and myself.
In the past 6 years we have developed a flexible, J2EE based e-insurance platform, which today includes 26 productive applications in four countries, with another 14 applications currently planned or in the implementation phase. The productized version of this group wide e-insurance Software will be distributed together with suitable services to the European insurance market. Intensive contacts with first potential customers in Switzerland, Denmark and Russia are really promising. So we have to hurry up with the definition of our terms and conditions and license model. And here, believe it or not, the headache begins...We are convinced users of (mature and field tested) Open Source Software (OSS) products. An important and continuously increasing part of our solution stack is based on Open Source Software. Therefore we will offer our own solution based on a brand new licensing model, which will be very close to the open source license models. The main principles of OSS communities will be adopted within our Open Customer Community. Thus our customers will benefit from the principles and characteristics that make OSS so attractive.
Stephen showed to be an excellent support and consultant for the definition of our unique licensing model. Therefore we agreed to collaborate with him and we are glad to benefit from his expertise.
Thank you, Stephen for your precious help. And thanks to Bruno von Rotz (Optaros VP, Country Manager, Switzerland) for having introduced Stephen in our license development process.
Have also a look at those interesting blogs regarding OSS, licensing models, patents, etc.
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