Recently, Consona acquired Compiere. Is this a failure of Open Source business model

Open source business applications provider Compiere has launched the Compiere Community Wiki to enable collaboration and information sharing across its open source community.

Compiere has been in serious upgrade mode lately. It has been tweaking its business model, changing its management team (and adding an experienced CEO in enterprise software), and improving its community focus. I admit that I've been thinking that Compiere had missed its window of opportunity, but it feels like the company is on the right track.

After Cavium announced that it will acquire MontaVista for $50 million, analysts are now weighing in on the acquisition. Both Jay Lyman of The 451 Group and Bill Weinberg of LinuxPundit view the acquisition as a sign of a consolidation trend in embedded Linux, while Weinberg points to MontaVista missteps that led to sale.

Compiere, a small open source ERP software provider, is on track to grow its business 50 percent this year, driving 80 percent of company revenues through the channel. Next up, the company plans to accelerate its SaaS and on-premise relationships in 2010. Here’s the scoop.

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BusinessWeek says open source companies are struggling to monetize their products and show growth. But new channel strategies from companies like Compiere — an open source ERP and CRM application provider — could prove BusinessWeek wrong. Here’s why.

This post from Matt Asay on whether open source needs consolidation asks an interesting question, and some of the comments that came in on it were interesting. This comment caught my eye: "No. Open source does not need consolidation. Open source needs product managers."

The big names in open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, such as Compiere, get most of the publicity, but you have another choice: Nseer ERP, from the first Chinese company to open the source code to its ERP software.