Rise of the Open Source IPO COSS IPOs are on the rise. In this post, we analyze the 16 COSS IPOs since 1999 and make some predictions about the future: Red Hat, Qt, Elastic, Sourcefire, JFrog, MongoDB, Cloudera, Fastly and more!
COSS Weekly COSS Weekly Issue #1 💥 COSS Weekly, Issue #1: 💥September 25th, 2020 Welcome to the first issue of the COSS Weekly, the global Commercial Open-Source ecosystem newsletter brought to you every Sunday by Joseph Jacks
COSS For An Open Future In this post I’ll cover my formative career learnings that led to what I’ve dedicated my life’s work to, hopefully for decades to come. Early Days and
Fostering Community Five Decades of Permissionless Software Innovation Movements Why Commercial Open-Source Software (“COSS”) represents the next major transformational permissionless software movement?
Doing Business COSS Company Value Creation and Capture Fundamentals This post defines the distinctions of value creation and value capture between closed-source and open-source software companies.
Developing Product COSS Will Eat $500+ Billion Of SaaS Over ~20 Years This post predicts that Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies will eat SaaS over the next 20 years.
Developing Product OSS Will Eat Cloud Computing Open source software will eat cloud computing. Read this post to find out how this trend will play out.
Developing Product What does the shift to multi-cloud-OSS-aaS mean for COSS companies/founders? What are the implications for COSS companies as the world moves to multi-cloud? This post explores this topic.
Fostering Community Creating OSS Value != Capturing OSS Value This post explains the main differences between value creation and value capture in the open source context.
Doing Business COSS Business Model Progressions This post explores the various business models applicable to Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies, and how they work and progress during the lifetime of a company.
Doing Business Open Core - Definition, Examples & Tradeoffs This post explores the definition, implementation, and implications of the Open Core business model, in the context of building Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) companies.
Building Company The $100 Billion+ Commercial OSS Index (COSSI) This post summarizes the origin, motivation, and goal of the Commercial Open Source Software Index (COSSI).
