Vol. 5 Iss: 5 Read Back Issues

Good and Bad Reasons to Open Source Your Software A company's decision to contribute to open source projects is usually business-driven. This article offers a review of the top reasons that can influence your company to contribute source code to open source or to start new open source projects. Oct. 1, 2007  Reads: 8,524

Enterprise Open Source for Corporate IT Open source software continues to gain momentum worldwide. Low costs, high quality, and unprecedented flexibility make more and more IT decision makers favor open source over traditional packaged software. Access to bug tracking systems, development team discussions, test approaches - ... Oct. 1, 2007  Reads: 7,076

Segmenting Today's Open Source Community From a commercial open source company's point-of-view, open source is ideally the ultimate in 'grass roots' marketing where people learn about the project by word-of-mouth and where they volunteer their time and effort, resulting in a vibrant community that benefits the company in many... Oct. 1, 2007  Reads: 9,350  Replies: 2

A Simple Marketing Model for Enterprise Open Source A year ago I wrote 'Howells Ten Rules for Open Source Marketing.' At Alfresco we believed that open source was different and needed a different marketing model. Geoffrey Moore was at the root of our thinking when he wrote about 'Darwin and the Demon' and markets being ripe for disrupti... Sep. 23, 2007  Reads: 10,123

Open Source Solutions: Seek Value Beyond Cost In the early days the sheer novelty of open source software being free had a certain allure. But actually using it meant dealing with myriad technical and support issues - more than enough to make the price tag of commercial enterprise software worthwhile. Fortunately, that's changed. Sep. 21, 2007  Reads: 14,747  Replies: 1

Open Source, Part of a Bigger Trend During my career I have had the privilege and the misfortune to be involved with quite a few nascent businesses. Some have been small, with no more than five or ten employees. To this day they still have that many or less. Others grew from 50 employees to over 10,000 in a very short ti... Sep. 19, 2007  Reads: 7,554