OSS Business Models\nPublic icon\nOSS Business Models - Qiita\n\nOSS Business Models\n\n\sClassification by Professor Takeshi Takeda at Ritsumeikan University\n\sA valid classification when dividing OSS into "software developers" and "user business operators".\n\n\sDifference between Community Edition and Enterprise Edition | GitLab.JP\n\n1. Parasitic model\n\sA business model that seeks to support customers who want to introduce OSS rather than selling or developing OSS, and to perform services such as education of personnel and maintenance of developed systems.\n\s\sThere are constraints that make it difficult for large businesses to develop.\n\n2. Symbiotic model\n\sA model for incorporating OSS into one's own business essentially, and obtaining strategic advantage through differentiation.\n\s\sOSS as a means of building strategic position.\n\sIt mentions that various electronics companies including IBM adopted Linux as the operating system for server machines to compete with Microsoft's products.\n\s\s\n\n3. Integration model\n(Since the interpretation in the article I read and the original article were different, I will write the one in the original article.)\n\sOSS for applications with no expected number of users\n\sIt is common knowledge that the cost of operation and maintenance exceeds the cost from development to implementation of software, so the goal is to share and reduce the cost of maintenance and strengthening by sharing software.\n\s\sThere are various difficulties in OSS-izing applications developed by one company's investment, but cost reduction through OSS is expected to be an option in future corporate information strategies for tasks that do not involve strategic differentiation.\n\n\nGrowth stages of OSS\nFogel states that "the chances of open source projects failing are probably around 90 to 95%," which is similar to the survival rate of venture companies, and divides growth stages into four categories: \n\s(1) Seed Period\n\s(2) Startup Period\n\s(3) Rapid Growth Period\n\s(4) Stable Growth Period.