Linked by David Adams on Thu 28th Aug 2008 17:53 UTC
Bordeaux is a commercial User Interface to the Wine software that allows Linux systems to run Windows software. The Bordeaux Technology Group distributes this software and provides professional support to companies and individuals running Windows apps on Linux (and soon FreeBSD). I interviewed Tom Wickline to get some details and find out what they're up to now.
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The ides that you can use an open source back-end with a closed source front-end is a very interesting, but not always viable, option for making money with open source code so I hope it works out for Bordeaux.
Unfortunately, many of the business ventures I've seen who do this don't give as much back as they could. For instance, Trend Micro's Internet Mail Security Suite running on Linux relies heavily on PostgreSQL, though I've never heard of them ever giving anything back to the PostgreSQL project.
Another such product is VMWare's ESX server line. Really grate bare metal virtualization solutions but then there was all that fuss kicked up about them not giving back any changes they had made to the underlying Linux based GPL stack.
Thankfully, Bordeaux sounds like it's taking it's roots very seriously and using the closed source income to help at least partially finance the code they are letting filter back up-stream.
Hope it works out for you guys. I'm certainly going to buy a license.