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Open Source Software Articles
Articles:
Engaging with the Open Source Community (Part One)
What is Open-Source Software?
Open source is the business.
Open Source Initiative
Engaging with the Open Source Community (Part One)
by Robert Munro, James Negrette with Andrew Aitken
Abstract
The Open Source community-based software development model provides industry, government, and academia with significant opportunities to leverage IT investments and increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency by using and continually improving high quality Open Source software.
The Open Source community ecosystem provides important software, services and support components that span virtually all commercial markets as well as governmental and educational domains. While Linux, Apache, and SendMail are well known examples of Open Source software, these solutions constitute only a very small fraction of the Open Source software available.
Open Source software solutions exist for virtually all types of business applications. Open Source solutions integrating these and other business functions into powerful applications like ERP and CRM suites are also available. Additionally, Open Source software exists for a variety of vertical markets and is being widely used. These solutions, as well as many more, are available at various levels of functionality, stability, and both commercial and non- commercial support.
There are many advantages to the adoption of Open Source software. The extent to which a given enterprise benefits from these advantages depends in large measure upon how it engages with the Open Source community. Part I briefly outlines the benefits of Open Source software and development processes. Part II will describe the rationale for, and benefits of, engaging with the Open Source community, as well as suggest a high level process for deciding to deploy Open Source and how to engage with the community.
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What is Open-Source Software?
By Danielle Dunne
Introduction
Software runs your computer, but what kind of software does your company use? Do you buy software from a company like Microsoft or do you use open-source software? Your organization probably already uses both proprietary software (like the kind from Microsoft) and open-source software.
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Open source is the business
By Open source is the business
Introduction
If you're new to computers, then open source is a whole new universe waiting to be discovered, at no real cost. Almost every kind of application is freely available as open-source software -- from business applications such as word processors, presentation software and spreadsheets to specialist tools such as programming languages and databases.
Open source is the best way for a student or child to discover the world of the computer, because there is no limit or restriction on your ability to learn how the software works, since it comes with full source code.
So, for new computer users, open source is "the business". If you're in the software industry, then open source is interesting because all indications are that it will come to be the default on the desktop, just as it has come to dominate the server software scene.
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Open Source Initiative
Introduction
Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified Open Source Software certification mark and program. You can read about successful software products that have these properties, and about our certification mark and program, which allow you to be confident that software really is "Open Source." We also make copies of approved open source licenses here.
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