Wall street excitement ?
When ever a company turned around from many years of losses, Wall streeters got excited. Such was the case a few days ago, when Sunw announced quarterly results with a 3 cents per share earnings, which management hoped to achieve in the second half of 2007.
Stock went up to $6.15 per share all of a sudden and had since moved up to $6.33.
Its great news when companies found they business plan and executed well. The P/E ratio was established at 50. so if next quarter goes up to 5 cent earnings, the stock will be around $10 per share. Not a bad piece of change.
Watch out for turn arounds on Linux stocks on Tusmachines.org. We will be discussing business plans for Linux community, to take advantage of solid business plans purely for Linux successes.
Footnote:
We discussed Google($1000 stock potential) business plans and SunMicro($100 stock potential) business plans to illustrate what can happen to Linux businesses, if you follow good business management.
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Recap on Linux business strategy for profit ?
The business plan for Linux distro is very simple. The distro for desktop is free(GPL licensed). The money is made from repository or your website.
The website offers pride in ownership of your distro. These feelings translate to sales of T-shirts or mugs, pens or emblems, etc. The suppliers of such items are in the hospitality business.
The website forms a community to solve bugs problems, or write added features to the GPL codes. The profit is from contributions of the members in your community, via Paypal, credit cards or even bank money transfers. You can sell official releases of your distro, in disks or manuals for a small fee. You should stay with a release for one year to five years, but add sp1/2 within the five year life of a distro. This is modeled after Windows' success. Distros for desktop is after all browser(update) oriented, not offline applications that only the user is involved.
So, the revenue stream is very clearly from your website. Whether it is Ajax or not depends on how you use DOM(dynamic object model) to help you make more money, depending on what is more popular that your community is willing to pay. So, DOM is a statistical(poll) study and scheduler to changes on your website.
Footnote:
Tuxmachines.org may want to do membership drive from many distro bases, too on their websites. We are proud of Tuxmachines.org and the info(last word) available on anything related to Linux.
Beyond GPL is the special application for each business ?
No doubt GPL is for desktop; which can not provide businesses with privacy and special business practices to make more money than their competitors.
Linux distros can not sell their one software to MacDonald and Burger King and Wendy's at the same time. The business process is quite different among the competitors.
And there, we have proprietary software that has to be developed out of microkernels not available by GPL licence. You have to sell each business their own approved software.