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Open source has been a great success for infrastructure software such as Linux, Apache and MySQL. Here at Software Advice , we’ve made use of all three. We’ve also made extensive use of open source development libraries like jQuery. For apps, however, we have either rolled our own or deployed commercial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. We’re not alone in that decision.
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Open source. It's the fruit of much labor by many people. It follows the tech world's latest trend of wanting everything and anything to be "open." It could also be a boon for the enterprise. Open source, by its very nature, makes a program's code available to companies, consumers, or organizations to modify it as they wish. It's a great concept.
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As a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm, Accenture’s client list includes corporations and government agencies in 120 countries. By blending deep industry knowledge with technology expertise, it has developed and implemented solutions for a wide variety of business challenges. We spoke with Paul Daugherty, Accenture’s Managing Director of Advanced Systems and Technology/ Technology Growth Platform, about the trends Accenture is seeing among its clients in the adoption of open source technologies and about Accenture’s best practices for deploying open source. Based on Accenture’s research and the survey it conducted of its customer base this spring, what interest does Accenture see in open source technology? Among our target client base, 78 percent are using open source technologies currently and 69 percent are planning to increase their budget around open source.
In this second part of the series, I will discuss what options Compiere has to go forward as an open source product and what prerequisites there are for building a thriving community. The indication for an active community are (user) contributions. In this blog, I will cover why people contributed to Compiere and why not. In the first part of this blog series, I mentioned that one cause for the diminishing open source community for Compiere was the business model. Compiere started out as free product with revenue generation via services and evolved to a free open source trial/entry product with "real" commercial product and services (Open Core). As mentioned this model only causes conflicts with the community and also customers as they see it as nothing else than a free trial/entry product with restricted functionality or access with the ultimate goal being to 'upgrade to a paid or enterprise version.
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10 Ways Open Source Can Save Your Company NEWS ANALYSIS: Open-source software is coming to the enterprise in a big way. Is it time for companies to start considering it? What does this mean for Microsoft Windows?It's a poignant reminder to Red Hat employees that Wednesday's ridicule of open source has shifted to a market that seemingly can't embrace open source fast enough . Forrester Research has crafted its own "Five Stages of Open Source Adoption," as published recently in the May 15, 2009, edition of SD Times , which roughly follows the same pattern of doubt-giving-way-to-adoption that Gandhi suggested: I occasionally get requests from IT people as to how they can bring more open source within their organizations.
