ofbiz business models

[pavan kesar]

Hello All,What are the different business models that service providers do.
 Obvious ones are
* Consulting
* Training

Are there anyone who provide add-on modules on a country basis or on a
vertical basis and charge the customers.

Is this also normal in OFBiz project.  If not, why not?

Thanks.

[BJ Freeman]

Speaking for myself.
Customization and extension are based on manhours.
Once the charge for the manhours are paid for, unless a specific
agreement, I release code to open source.
For components or Add-on, that i see can be sold to multiple customers,
I divide the cost of the code and sell each module or add-on at a
fraction of the cost, in jar files only.
I also charge for my time, which can includes setup (getting it running
on hardware), initialization(prepare data for client), training,and
consulting.

pavan kesar sent the following on 7/13/2009 4:07 AM:

> Hello All,What are the different business models that service providers do.
>  Obvious ones are
> * Consulting
> * Training
>
> Are there anyone who provide add-on modules on a country basis or on a
> vertical basis and charge the customers.
>
> Is this also normal in OFBiz project.  If not, why not?
>
> Thanks.
>

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Systems Integrator.

[David E. Jones-2]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:07 AM, pavan kesar wrote:

> Hello All,What are the different business models that service  
> providers do.
> Obvious ones are
> * Consulting
> * Training
>
> Are there anyone who provide add-on modules on a country basis or on a
> vertical basis and charge the customers.
>
> Is this also normal in OFBiz project.  If not, why not?
>
> Thanks.

The answer is yes to all of the above, ie yes there are companies  
doing all of these things. For a partial list see the wiki page here:

http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+Service+Providers

-David