How Beam's helped our bottom line...

[Peter Mueller <pm...@atso.com>]

Hi Gris and everyone,
Not a very techie post, but thought I'd contribute a little on the economic
case for open-source, and Apache Beam in particular.

TLDR;  We're finding that, at critical points in our sales cycle, our
customers are choosing us precisely because we offer a 'call option' on
future runner choice.

http://blog.atso.com/how-open-source-is-reshaping-our-business

I thought it would be refreshing to hear this, since lots is written on
technical/community benefits of open source and how (obviously) it helps
you save costs on otherwise-proprietary/expensive solutions.   Little's
been written about positive impact on revenue-side of the ledger.

Best,
Peter

CTO
ATS, Inc.

Re: How Beam's helped our bottom line...

[Rafael Fernandez <rf...@google.com>]

Wow, what a nice thing to read! Thanks for sharing, Peter!

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:50 AM Peter Mueller <pm...@atso.com> wrote:

> Hi Gris and everyone,
> Not a very techie post, but thought I'd contribute a little on the
> economic case for open-source, and Apache Beam in particular.
>
> TLDR;  We're finding that, at critical points in our sales cycle, our
> customers are choosing us precisely because we offer a 'call option' on
> future runner choice.
>
> http://blog.atso.com/how-open-source-is-reshaping-our-business
>
> I thought it would be refreshing to hear this, since lots is written on
> technical/community benefits of open source and how (obviously) it helps
> you save costs on otherwise-proprietary/expensive solutions.   Little's
> been written about positive impact on revenue-side of the ledger.
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
> CTO
> ATS, Inc.
>
>