With years of open source experience, Olliance delivers value and actionable results to clients. Click on any company name to see what clients have to say about our services:

"Adaptive Planning worked with the Olliance Group in order to develop an open source strategy that would support our SaaS-based budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution. We were impressed with their team's industry knowledge, strategic insights, and practical guidance. Our open source initiative has been extremely successful, and the Olliance Group played a key role in helping to formulate our early strategy."

Greg Schneider,  VP of Marketing Adaptive Planning

"With the continued growth in the commercial and technological impact of open source, along with its disruptive nature and today's economic climate, there is bound to be consolidation in the market. Both buyers and sellers will need expert advice to navigate this landscape and maximize returns. With eight years of strategic open source consulting experience and hundreds of completed engagements, Olliance Group is well positioned to be that adviser."

Nick Sturiale, Managing Director The Carlyle Group

"Olliance Group's expert consultants and open source knowledge helped the Free Standards Group chart an expanded vision for the Linux Standards Base, and provided important business and technical strategy, and marketing advice."

Jim Zemlin,  Executive Director Linux Foundation

"Olliance was a tremendous help in making some critical early stage licensing decisions. They helped us understand the impact of a variety of open source licensing options and ultimately select a license strategy that best fit our needs."

Dave Nielsen, The Openface Project

"Olliance Group worked as an integral part of our team as we developed our company and product strategy. Their broad experience with the open source ecosystem brought new insights to our own open source expertise"

Steven Grandchamp,  CEO Open Logic

OSSI and the U.S. Navy "This initial work with Olliance Group was a foundational element for the U.S. Navy’s recently released policy for open source software.  This critical and objective work quantified the value and potential of open source in the public sector."

John Weathersby,  Executive Director Open Source Software Institute

"As part of our due diligence on an open source investment, I picked Olliance because of their depth of understanding of their open source business models. I have been very impressed by their ability to react quickly and come up with very deep insights on what were the issues that the company was facing moving forward. I recommend them for evaluation of pure open source business model and migration of existing businesses to an open source business paradigm"

Philippe Cases, Partner Partech International

"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."

Damien Eastwood Vice President, Products & Technology Law, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"Olliance Group has worked with a number of our porfolio companies to help them understand whether or not open source is an opportunity or competitive threat. They have a deep understanding of open source business models and their implications to existing proprietary software firms. Olliance's independent perspective and ability to rapidly assess and develop open source strategies has proven very valuable to our portfolio companies. We recommend them highly to other venture firms and their portfolios."

Mary Coleman,  Managing Partner Walden International

"The Olliance Group was extremely helpful to us in the launch of our open source product. They came in and quickly became familiar with the critical issues surrounding the transition of our commercial, closed-source product into open source. Their up-to-date knowledge of all the business issues related to an open source transition were the perfect complement to our legal counsel."

Gary Prioste, Vice President Technology Services welocalize