Matt Asay's keynote presentation on the changing face of commercial open-source communities. Delivered on April 19, 2009, at the Openbravo World Conference.

1. Openbravo World Conference The Community Imperative Speaker: Matt Asay, VP of Business Development, Alfresco Barcelona, April 19, 2009

3. Open source is now mainstream Source: Gartner 2008 Number of respondents = 274; Multiple responses allowed. Survey Question: Do you use, or plan to use in the next budget year, an open-source project or product as an alternative to commercial software? 53-55% to adopt open-source by 2010

4. But what about open-source ERP adoption? Source: Forrester, 2009 60% to adopt open-source ERP by 2010

5. Why open source? Source: Gartner Number of respondents = 274; Mean summary: Three responses allowed. Survey Question: Select your organization’s top three most important reasons for using open-source software.

8. … In many ways, open source is working 87% 92% 86% 82% 84% 82% 91%

9. So open source is being used in more mission-critical tasks Open source is becoming the heart of enterprise computing

11. It’s no longer about whether open source will succeed …but how (and which projects) The real differentiator going forward is community involvement Whether measured in terms of lines of code added or new projects, open-source growth is phenomenal Source: Dirk Riehle, SAP

15. “ There is no upside to pushing freeloaders away.” Linus Torvalds, 2009

16. Community begins when self-interest meets software

22. Learning from J B oss’ community 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 3X 2X 1.5X 3.5X

24. Ask not what Openbravo can do for you…

25. Agenda Open Source Rising Community Mechanics Openbravo’s Community Outreach Community Begins with You Concluding Remarks