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Opensource to SaaS – ezPublish Makes The Move

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 25, 2008

When I introduced my ongoing Living in the Cloud
Series, I said

I will feel very confident if the vendor releases the source code of the app
under one of the OSI approved licenses. Apart from the actual benefits of
Opensource, I can also be sure that I will still be able to use the app even if
the cloud vendor goes out of business. WordPress, Wikidot, Deki Wiki, etc. are examples of
cloud based apps available as Opensource.

Well, this trend is building up and we are seeing more and more Opensource
companies offering their product as SaaS. It is a smart move by the Opensource
vendors because Gartner is predicting SaaS market to hit $14.8 billion in 2012.
The recent convert to SaaS from the Opensource world is the enterprise level
content management system ezPublish. They have partnered with a Norwegian firm,
Mamut ASA, to offer their product as a SaaS
offering. It is expected to be released soon, sometime this fall. ezPublish has
a large install base including Hitachi, US Naby, MIT, etc.

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2 responses to “Opensource to SaaS – ezPublish Makes The Move”

  1. Zoli Erdos
    Zoli Erdos November 25, 2008 at 3:48 pm |

    It all makes sense, Open Source as such is not a business model, it’s a development/collaboration model. Vendors do have to turn where they can find revenue, and that’s SaaS.

    There’s a really good post on this by Matt Asay: It’s becoming hard to distinguish open source from SaaS.

  2. Fred
    Fred December 19, 2008 at 2:37 am |

    I am not sure I agree here. It is quite unique, in the way I understand it, to see an Open Source CMS both available for download and in a SaaS model.
    It is hard in a traditional SaaS model to find out where the price come from. We could hope that the SaaS model based on an Open Source CMS also available for download will be even more competitive and attractive.

    That is why I do not totally agree here.