Carol Smith - Google+ - Thank you to the +Google Open Source Programs Office for… Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software. Diomidis Spinellis,a Vaggelis Giannikasa, b a Department Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Patision 76, GR-104 34 Athens, Greece b Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom Abstract Organizations and individuals can use open source software (OSS) for free, they can study its internal workings, and they can even fix it or modify it to make it suit their particular needs.
These attributes make OSS an enticing technological choice for a company. 1 Introduction Thousands of volunteers and numerous companies develop, distribute, and license software in a way that allows others to freely use it, study it, modify it, and redistribute it. 2 Related Work 2.1 OSS Adoption by Organizations For the choice of software that fits best an organization's needs Wang and Wang [2001] proposed criteria for a product-oriented evaluation framework. 2.2 Aggregate Studies of OSS Adoption. Meet Sun's open-source ambassador. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- As Sun Microsystems Inc.'s unofficial ambassador to the open-source community, Marco Boerries has a tough job. Like just about every official with a major computer or software power attempting to come to grips with the growing customer acceptance of Linux and other open-source software, Sun (sunw) is seen as a potential spoiler.
Even more than IBM Corp. (ibm) or Hewlett-Packard Co. But Boerries -- the founder of the German office-suite vendor StarDivision who currently serves as vice president and general manager of Sun's Web top and application software -- said the tide is turning. "Things are changing, in terms of our perception by the open-source community," Boerries said in an interview Wednesday at the LinuxWorld trade show. Indeed, Sun was one of the headliners at Tuesday's launch of the Gnome Foundation at LinuxWorld. Sun's booth was one of the most crowded on the LinuxWorld show floor. Boerries fits right into Sun CEO Scott McNealy's anti-Microsoft mold. Apache Traffic Server. The Google Open Source Programs Office - Google Code. Google Supports Open Source Initiatives. AnnouncementOctober 25, 2005 Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski announced at a press conference this morning a $350,000 contribution from Google to a joint open source technology initiative of Oregon State University and Portland State University.
With the grant, the universities will collaborate to encourage open source software and hardware development, develop academic curricula and provide computing infrastructure to open source projects worldwide. "We’re extremely excited about the Oregon university open source initiative and thankful for Google’s generous support," said Governor Kulongoski. This initiative will help our universities build on their leadership role in fostering the next generation of open source technologies, projects and experts in Oregon and around the world.
" The full press release is available at: governor.oregon.gov/Gov/press_102505.shtml. For a complete outline of students and mentors who worked on Summer of Code projects, please visit code.google.com. Google Open Source Blog. Effective Open Source Sponsorship. Many government agencies are extending Open Source Software to solve their business problems. Open Source offers many advantages, including free licensing and engagement of an international pool of developers, but it does require appropriate investment and management to capitalise on Open Source’s offerings effectively. After deciding to extend Open Source Software, agencies are faced with a relatively new business model, open source sponsorship. Agencies need to align purchasing policies, based upon deliverables and milestones, with Open Source community development. Under a proprietary business model, a company builds and markets a product.
Multiple customer sales cover the cost of development, supporting infrastructure, marketing, support, future enhancements and hopefully include a profit. Management should justify investment in a project as Opportunity Management. Opportunity Management is the inverse of Risk Management. Table 1: Opportunity Management Community Support Documentation. Open source: IBM's deadly weapon.
If you left the 1980s and traveled ahead 20 years into the early 21st century, you probably wouldn't recognize the new IBM. Once a purveyor of closed and proprietary solutions, the company has recast itself as flag bearer of all things open and interoperable. Seeing the company's peace, love and penguin ads for Linux are indeed worthy of an eye-rubbing double take. IBM officials speak fondly of an attitude adjustment that has changed Big Blue into a much more customer-focused company.
They describe an altruistic metamorphosis that benefits end users who will settle for nothing less than interoperability and support of open standards. But is there more to the picture than meets the eye? Are IBM's interoperability efforts and open source donations such as Eclipse and code for UDDI, SOAP, and Linux subtly serving something more strategic for Big Blue? Linux does three things for IBM. SOAP was invented by Microsoft and, shortly thereafter, got a facelift with the help of IBM.
IBM’s Big Data Analytics Empire. IBM is going gangbusters in the Big Data world. Its IBM Big Data Web site is a major resource, its TV commercials project authority and its products are entrenched in the space. But, for me, it took a discussion yesterday with Deepak Advani, IBM’s Vice President for Business Analytics Products and Solutions, to appreciate IBM’s Big Data play in all its depth. Maybe old dogs do the best new tricks IBM is a 101-year old company, based on the East Coast. It once made typewriters.
It still makes mainframes. Its products interoperate with open source technology, but most of its products are anything but free. And many of those products have come through an array of acquisitions the company has made over the course of its history. Most Big Data startups have a lean team, are just a few years old, based on the West Coast, offer their core technology as open source software running on commodity hardware, and have built their IP organically. This is about hardware too. 2011-10-03 Made in IBM Labs: IBM Donating Cooperative Web Technology That Enables Life Changing Healthcare Solutions. ARMONK, N.Y. - 03 Oct 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the company is donating new software code to help health care and other industries work on shared content in real-time, on the Web.
The code is from IBM Project Blue Spruce and will be donated to the Dojo Foundation's Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb). CT images for a specific patient viewable on an iPad as part of research being conducted on COPD. COPDGene(R) collaborators from around the globe can review and compare the clinical data and CT scan images of more than 10,000 individuals using IBM technology and the OpenCoweb Framework. (PRNewsFoto/IBM Corporation). Developed in the IBM labs, Project Blue Spruce allows people to simultaneously interact and update content in real-time via a web browser on computers and the Apple iPad and includes video chat. "The online system we've been using on the COPDGene® patients is exciting and extremely impressive," said James D.