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Olliance Services

Since 2001, Olliance has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to software startups to venture capital firms. Olliance's depth and breadth of knowledge will help your business exploit opportunities, overcome challenges, and create and sustain value from the open source revolution.

Olliance works closely with clients to understand how open source has a transformative impact on virtually all company functions- for better or worse-upon a client‘s business environment and operations, competitive landscape, policies and procedures, software procurement and deployment, software development, organization and staffing, marketing, finance and legal. Our position in the heart of the open source eco-system allows us to provide clear, independent analysis from all perspectives, vendors, users, and the community. We are pragmatic, open-minded, and focus on delivering actionable results.

IP and Licensing Business & Technology Strategy

“Olliance provided key insights into the business model issues surrounding our choice of licenses for releasing our code into open source, including community and customer adoption, and partner and channel concerns.”

“Olliance Group‘s expert consultants and open source knowledge helped the Free Standards Group chart an expanded business and technical strategy for the Linux Standard Base.”

Damien Eastwood
VP Products & Technology Law
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jim Zemlin
Executive Director
Free Standards Group
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