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Open Source for the Enterprise eBook
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Open source software is changing the world of Information Technology.
But making it work for your company is far more complicated than simply
installing a copy of Linux. If you are serious about using open source
to cut costs, accelerate development, and reduce vendor lock-in, you
must institutionalize skills and create new ways of working. You must
understand how open source is different from commercial software and
what responsibilities and risks it brings. Open Source for the Enterprise is a sober guide to putting open source to work in the modern IT department.
Open source software is software whose code is freely available to
anyone who wants to change and redistribute it. New commercial support
services, smaller licensing fees, increased collaboration, and a
friendlier platform to sell products and services are just a few of the
reasons open source is so attractive to IT departments. Some of the
open source projects that are in current, widespread use in businesses
large and small include Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
JBOSS, and Perl. These have been used to such great effect by Google,
Amazon, Yahoo!, and major commercial and financial firms, that a wave
of publicity has resulted in recent years, bordering on hype. Large
vendors such as IBM, Novell, and Hewlett Packard have made open source
a lynchpin of their offerings. Open source has entered a new area where
it is being used as a marketing device, a collaborative software
development methodology, and a business model.
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