eZ Open Funding
Friday 09 June 2006 1:31:00 am
During my involvement in the EU's COSI project, I was shown a prognosis on the estimated growth of Open Source development. I was impressed by the predictions of dramatic escalation, just as I am continually surprised by the amazing growth in demand for support and services that I see at eZ Systems. The eZ crew has more than doubled in size in the last year. During the same period, the eZ ecosystem has grown with more than 50 new eZ partners (110 in total) and 6000 new community members (23.000 in total) worldwide.
It seems to be a never-ending cycle of more and more business, and every time we jump to a new activity level I question how we can keep up. But what surprises me even more is that as demand from the marketplace increases, the eZ ecosystem seems to respond with equal force, so that when a user requires new functionality, another partner, community member or eZ employee gets involved with providing the solution.
While this may seem like the traditional economic model of supply and demand, in fact it is an evolutionary enhancement to that model, as it opens up the communication between the buyer and seller, allowing them both to operate in a manner that benefits everyone involved. Instead of determining and communicating requirements through closed processes with incomplete information, buyers and sellers work as teams to design and implement solutions that are the most functional and economical for the most users.