%0 Conference Paper %B OSS2009: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting (IFIP 2.13) %D 2009 %T Providing Commercial Open Source Software: Lessons Learned %A Hauge, Øyvind %A Ziemer, Sven %X Even though companies like Sun, IBM, MySQL and others have released several commercial Open Source Software (OSS) products, little evidence exist of how to successfully launch such products and establish a living community around them. This paper presents a case study from a small software company succeeding at establishing a business model and a vivid community around their own OSS products. Based on this case study, the paper presents lessons learned which could help other OSS providers. %B OSS2009: Open Source Ecosystems: Diverse Communities Interacting (IFIP 2.13) %S IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology %I Springer %V 299/2009 %P 70 - 82 %8 2009/// %G eng %& 8 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_8 %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Providing%20Commercial%20Open%20Source.pdf