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Business Model
A Unique, Stable and Fair Business Model for the last Six Years
Since 2002, Jahia implemented a unique licensing scheme with Open Source and Free software principles in mind that formed the basis of its fair business practice and growing community.
Jahia combines the dual licensing business model of Free and Open Source Software with a supported software contribution program that promotes giving back to the Jahia community through our "Contribute or Pay" paradigm and the Jahia Sustainable Enterprise License.
What makes Jahia's model unique when compared with the dual licensing approach of other Free and Open Source Software vendors is that Jahia provides incentives for contributions from its Community and Enterprise customers.
Ultimately, these incentives allow users of both Jahia Enterprise and Community Editions to benefit from third party contributions as well as a constantly growing code-base. This option is the reason why Jahia calls its permissive commercial license the "Jahia Sustainable Enterprise License" and its overall licensing scheme "Sustainable Dual Licensing".
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"By creating the Contribute or Pay paradigm, we found a way to provide incentives for Jahia customers to contribute back. We even make sure that free-riders also contribute back- although not with software code. Instead, they are rewarded for their fidelity to the Jahia project after long term subscription or by financing the further development of our software. These well balanced sources of contribution allow Jahia to constantly augment its investment in Research and Development"
Elie Auvray, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jahia
Enterprise Customer Contributions: Software Enhancement Financing Benefits
Jahia introduces the first guaranteed enterprise contribution program in the professional Open Source market. This program also recognizes the contributions provided to the Community.
"The fact that software enhancements that are financed by customers, are also available for the Jahia Community is really unique in the professional Open Source market." - Serge Huber, Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Jahia
The Contribute or Pay paradigm is a stable and well-balanced software development and business model for all members of Jahia's business ecosystem, leveraging the Open Source contribution model and best practices, but adapting to the actual needs of business application architecture developments with a software vendor approach.
The Best of Both Worlds
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For complete information regarding Jahia 's licenses, please refer to the Jahia License FAQ and feel free to download the Jahia Licensing White Paper. If you have any additional questions about the innovative and fair Jahia business model, please contact us.
Enterprise Customers Contribution: Long Term Subscriptions
As a matter of fact, Jahia's Enterprise customers are using and expanding their Jahia deployment year after year.
Jahia decided to reward this fidelity for those who participated in the Annual Production Subscription for a three years commitment. Jahia considered this long term commitment for the unlimited production of bug fixes, as a contribution to the software stability, year after year.
After three years, the right of usage for the software used in production environment will become forever free (=perpetual), whatever the version of the software the customer is using in this period of time.
In other words, if the customer decides to stop its subscription payment, he will still be able to use the Jahia software in its production environment (of course, without all the benefits of the Production Subscription).
This customer fidelity reward of perpetual right of usage, is a unique feature in the market today.
