Open Source
First 1000

How successful open-source projects got their first 1000 users and implemented profitable business models.

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Name Revenue (M) Employees Est. Valuation ($B) Business model

Linux

OS

$ 4500

17000

$ 34.5

Support subscriptions

OpenStack

Cloud Platform

$ 2700

7600

$ 5

Open core

Open vSwitch

Network Virtualization

$ 2000

100

$ 1.3

Open core

Hadoop

Big Data

$ 1000

2900

$ 4

Open core

MySQL

Relational Database

$ 1000

800

$ 1.1

Open core
The most profitable open-source companies
Source: Coss Media