Nice RedMonk Interview by Livemink: About Open Business

Fun interview by Sun’s Simon Phipps about RedMonk and our business model. He will be interviewing other analysts too – apparently Michael Goulde from Forrester is next week, and “much better” than this one.

A lot of people ask how RedMonk makes money, and that’s Simons first question. We talk about community economics generally and the RedMonk approach specifically.

By removing barriers to participation, you can create barriers to entry: “Other people couldn’t come and steal our community- its personal and based on relationships.” I said. Openness as a barrier to entry, because competitors won’t go there.  

Nokia’s new business model thinking – attracting open developers, 3 as an all you can eat internet mobile offering, why i think the iPhone is probably boring because its a closed rather than revolutionary business model.

Covalent, Greenplum, MYSQL, ZenOSS as RedMonk customers

“We’re seeing more and more companies that look a lot like us.”

I would love to see some of the bigger firms copy us.

 

the podcast is short enough to be interesting, in my opinion. Hope you enjoy it. The only problem is Simon’s slightly odd choice of format- AAC. He really loves that Apple content lock. Most people don’t use VLC, many don’t even know about it. So Simon might want some explanation for newbies.

One other thing Simon. Thanks a lot for the team photos.

 

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