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May 19, 2009
Video: Opensource vs. Proprietary content management systems
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Posted at 02:14 pm by Joseph Bachana
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Hi Joseph -
Just came across this today and I was curious how critical you think it is for an open source project to have a company like Acquia (for Drupal) in its ecosystem. Red Hat plays a similar role for Linux. However, other large, mature open source communities have instead gone with the foundation model (Apache, Plone, etc.)
How important do you think it is to have a corporate entity leading an open source community vs. having a non-profit foundation, in terms of enterprise uptake?
Hey Scott,
This is a great question! In a way, the notion of a commercial enterprise shepherding the advances in an open-source project has always given me a little bit of the willies. The main concern I have is agenting -- if the organization has business goals, employees that are compensated to achieve the goals, and investors to keep satisfied, it may make it harder to justly manage the intricacies of the relationships within the project. I'm thinking that EZ Systems and Alfresco may have these difficulties, although both companies certainly work hard to stay fair and develop their partner community.
Acquia is a bit different, since Drupal does have a foundation that manages the project. Acquia is more about the commercial support of the product, which is critical for ANY open-source project and a major concern that enterprises have with implementing open-source.
I'm glad you made this distinction, and I probably could have accentuated it in this interview. A non-profit foundation would be preferable in terms of the overall strategy of a project and coordination of contributors. However, I think it probably is a good thing to keep the commercial support offering as a separate entity in the manner that companies like Acquia are doing. That Dries Buytaert and many of the original Drupallers work there does seem to add a little more power to Acquia's hand at the card table ;-)