eLiberatica, Bukarest

day 2 notes here.
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adam jollans ibm- open source software in your business
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- oss is part of a bigger picture: OPEN COMPUTING due to changes in internet
- interlinked: open source, open architecture, open standards
= community innovation

what is oss?
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- licenses approach (access to source code)
- development methodology approach: community approach, meritocracy, peer review
- a community of users, developers and partners: open participation
OSS-keyword: COMMUNITY INNOVATION

e.g.
Apache
Linux
Eclipse
Mozilla
Xen (virtualization hypervisor technology- cambridge)

OSS importance: why did ibm invest so much in it?
- innovation
- good approach to changing open standards
- customer care benefits (flexibility, lower costs)
- can present new business oportunities

customer benefits:
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-choice, flexib
-low acquisition costs
-frictionless access to software
-quality of software
-community innovation

customer challenges:
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-support
-integration (of different oss bits and pieces)
-skills
-maturity
-too many choices

OPEN SOURCE AND PRIVATE SOURCE CONVERGING
- customer pragmatism
- seeking for integrated solutions

ibm strategy concerning open source:
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- fuel (encourages oss initiatives)
- enhance (focus energies, projects)
- contribute (as developers and consumers of oss)
- growth (integrate solutions in business)

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