Next week, we will be joining the OOP 2011 as an exhibitor.
Together with our members Bredex, EclipseSource, Tasktop and Yatta we will have a shared stand on the exhibition floor.
If you happen to be at OOP, please stop by for a chat!
PS: If you had not planned to go: Visit selected talks and the exhibition floor are free. Just register here.
Ralph
Showing posts with label Member Value. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Member Value. Show all posts
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Monday, November 8, 2010
Welcome Open Source Press To The Eclipse Foundation
The Open Source Press has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.
The Munich, Germany based company is a computer book publisher based in Munich, Germany. The company specializes on high-quality publications on topics related to open-source software and philosophy. It was founded in 2003. The cofounded Open Source School uses the broad network of IT professionals Open Source Press has built over the years to offer trainings in the field of unix/linux administration, software development and web development.
We appreciate the Open Source Press membership and look forward to many joint activities.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Membership Value Explained
Sometimes I wish I would be as clear as Gunthilde Sohn from instinctools GmbH. That's why I want to share her note that she sent to a new member prospect with all of you.
Again, thank you Gunni!
Hello,
you asked Ralph about the ROI of Eclipse Foundation membership and I am glad to provide you with our experience as a solution member:
We joined EF in 2008 after we decided to develop our product DITAworks based on Eclipse/RCP and focus our development services on Eclipse components. Besides using a mature and widely used technology for our products and services we experienced following benefits:
Increase of visibility: having our company and product registered on eclipse.org and marketplace we are not just a local provider anymore but visible to all organizations using Eclipse. This kind of visibility would cost us quite a marketing budget to be achieved through different platforms.
Global reach: we are even visible to worldwide potential customers and were able to generate international leads, new customers and a partner in the USA selling our product on the US market. I am sure without presentation on Eclipse site this would not been possible or take much more time and money.
Increase of customers: we were able to get new customers for our development services - also outside of Germany. These people found us on eclipse.org and invited us to bid for their projects.
Co-branding for our product: Having DITAworks based on Eclipse and also providing an out-of-the-box package for documentation of Eclipse applications provides us a nice co-branding for our product. Customers feel that the product has a profound technology base and can easily be integrated with other Eclipse based products, environments etc.
Cooperation: we experienced a good and cooperative approach of Eclipse members among each other (talking about German companies, I do not know how it is in other countries)
We are participating in Eclipse events in order to meet colleagues and potential customers, learn about the latest developments in Eclipse and present our product and services.
These are the major benefits in short and I can say we a good ROI of being a member so far.
In case of any questions or comments please feel free to contact me any time.
Kind regards,
Gunthilde
Again, thank you Gunni!
Hello,
you asked Ralph about the ROI of Eclipse Foundation membership and I am glad to provide you with our experience as a solution member:
We joined EF in 2008 after we decided to develop our product DITAworks based on Eclipse/RCP and focus our development services on Eclipse components. Besides using a mature and widely used technology for our products and services we experienced following benefits:
Increase of visibility: having our company and product registered on eclipse.org and marketplace we are not just a local provider anymore but visible to all organizations using Eclipse. This kind of visibility would cost us quite a marketing budget to be achieved through different platforms.
Global reach: we are even visible to worldwide potential customers and were able to generate international leads, new customers and a partner in the USA selling our product on the US market. I am sure without presentation on Eclipse site this would not been possible or take much more time and money.
Increase of customers: we were able to get new customers for our development services - also outside of Germany. These people found us on eclipse.org and invited us to bid for their projects.
Co-branding for our product: Having DITAworks based on Eclipse and also providing an out-of-the-box package for documentation of Eclipse applications provides us a nice co-branding for our product. Customers feel that the product has a profound technology base and can easily be integrated with other Eclipse based products, environments etc.
Cooperation: we experienced a good and cooperative approach of Eclipse members among each other (talking about German companies, I do not know how it is in other countries)
We are participating in Eclipse events in order to meet colleagues and potential customers, learn about the latest developments in Eclipse and present our product and services.
These are the major benefits in short and I can say we a good ROI of being a member so far.
In case of any questions or comments please feel free to contact me any time.
Kind regards,
Gunthilde
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