Book description
This book provides something far more valuable than either the cheerleading or the fear-mongering one hears about open source. The authors are Dan Woods, former CTO of TheStreet.com and a consultant and author of several books about IT, and Gautam Guliani, Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. Each has used open source software for some 15 years at IT departments large and small. They have collected the wisdom of a host of experts from IT departments, open source communities, and software companies. Open Source for the Enterprise provides a top to bottom view not only of the technology, but of the skills required to manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed.
Table of contents
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- Preface
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1. The Nature of Open Source
- The Open Source Debate
- Understanding Your Open Source Readiness
- The Nature of Open Source
- What Is Open Source?
- Where Does Open Source Come From?
- How Does Open Source Grow?
- How Does Open Source Die?
- Leadership in the Open Source Life Cycle
- Second-Generation Trends in Open Source
- The Different Roots of Commercial Software
- Productization: The Key to Understanding the Challenge of Using Open Source
- Comparing the Risks of Commercial and Open Source Software
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2. Measuring the Maturity of Open Source
- Open Source Traps
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The Elements of Open Source Maturity
- Leadership and Culture
- Vitality of Community
- Quality of End-User Support
- Extent and Scope of Documentation
- Quality of Installation Packaging
- Momentum (or Frequency of Releases)
- Quality of Code and Design
- Quality of Architecture
- Testing Practices
- Integration with Other Products
- Support for Standards
- Quality of Project Site
- License Type
- Potential for Commercial Conflicts
- Corporate Commitment
- Putting It All Together
- The Open Source Maturity Model
- 3. The Open Source Skill Set
- 4. Making the ROI Case
- 5. Designing an Open Source Strategy
- 6. Support Models for Open Source
- 7. Making Open Source Projects Easy to Adopt
- 8. A Comparison of Open Source Licenses
- 9. Open Source Under Attack
- 10. Open Source Empowerment
- A. The Open Source Platform
- B. End-User Computing on the Desktop
- C. Open Source and Email
- D. Groupware, Portals, and Collaboration
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E. Web Publishing and Content Management
- Complete Content Management Systems
- Web Publishing and Content Management System Capabilities
- Recommended Open Source Content Management System Projects
- Weblog Publishing Systems
- Content Management System Toolkits and Components
- F. Application Development
- Index
- About the Authors
- Colophon
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- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Open Source for the Enterprise
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2005
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491926406
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