The purpose of this work has been to understand how to finance a General Public License (GPL) software for a non-mass market product. The solution is licensed under GPL and is given out for free. A survey has been done to form a base for the business case and prove if profitability is at all possible. The results indicates a possibility to generate a sustainable business model for the software. In this work also some actions are recommended to be taken.
Contents
1 BACKGROUND
2 PURPOSE AND LIMITATION
2.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
2.1.1 GPL its implications and dual licensing
2.1.2 Problem definition
3 METHOD
3.1 LIMITATIONS
3.2 LITTERATURE RESEARCH
3.3 SECONDARY DATA USED
3.4 SELECTION OF CASE AND RESPONDENTS
3.5 SELECTION OF METHODS TO BE USED IN THE COOPERATION WITH ASPERA
3.6 SURVEYS
3.7 COMPETITOR RESEARCH
3.8 METHODOLOGY PROBLEMS
4 THEORIES
4.1 MARKET STRATEGY
4.1.1 Ansoff Strategic Management
4.1.2 Ansoff Product/Market matrix
4.1.3 SWOT Analysis
4.1.4 Mintzberg 5 P’s For Strategy
4.1.5 Porters Strategy View
4.1.6 Porters Value Chain
4.1.7 Porters Five Forces
4.1.8 Porter’s three generic competitive strategies
4.2 BUSINESS MODELS FOR OPEN SOURCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
4.2.1 Research on Open Source business models and IT business models
4.2.2 Leiteritz open source business models
5 EUMOS AND THE MARKET
5.1 ACTORS
5.2 COMPETITION AND SUBSTITUTION
5.3 DEFINING EUMOS BUSINESS MODEL
5.4 POTENTIAL USERS OF EUMOS
5.5 ECONOMICAL BACKGROUND
5.5.1 The external market economics
5.5.2 The internal profitability perspectives
5.6 RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY
6 DISCUSSION, INTERPETATION AND CONCLUSIONS
6.1 STRATEGY DIRECTION FOR EUMOS
6.2 CONCLUSIONS OF THE RESEARCH QUESTION
7 RECOMMENDATIONS TO EUMOS CONSORTIUMManagement
Profitable business model for an open source, freeware Franck Emmerich, 2004/2005
8 REFERENCES.
9 APPENDIX
9.1 ACTIVITY PLANS
9.2 AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GHG MONITORING AND REPORTING
9.3 SURVEY TO EUMOS USERGROUP
9.3.1 Survey to EuMoS User group, page 1
9.3.2 Survey to EuMoS User group, page 2
9.3.3 Results of the Survey to EuMoS User group
9.4 TIME SCHEDULE IN EU IN GENERAL FOR MONITORING
9.5 ACTUAL SITUATION FOR GHG EMISSION IN THE EU COUNTRIES
9.6 DISTANCE-TO-TARGET INDICATORS FOR THE KYOTO PROTOCOL AND BURDEN SHARING
TARGETS OF EU MEMBER STATES
9.7 NUMBER OF IMPACTED PLANTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
9.8 ADDITIONAL INFO
Author: Franck Emmerich
Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology
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