July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
236 pages
7h 2m
English
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Chapter 1. The Nature of Open Source
This book is a long and thorough answer to the question, is open source right for you? The intended audience is the typical Information Technology (IT) department that is charged with supporting a business with appropriate application of technology. This book is written from an IT department’s perspective and is organized around the common problems that face those who struggle in the trenches. The goal of Open Source for the Enterprise is to help technology and business executives determine whether they can benefit from using open source in their environments.
Open source began as free software built by thousands of volunteers who shared the results of their work without charging any fees. Billions of dollars of value has been created based on this simple structure. The adoption of open source software has become a cultural phenomenon. The basic facts regarding the growth of the open source movement are amazing.
Open source success stories are well known and more arise every week. For instance, the city of Munich chose OpenOffice.org, an open source suite of desktop applications, very publicly sticking a finger in the eye of Microsoft, which aggressively sought the contract. Amazon.com dumped Sun hardware and software in favor of Linux, the most popular open source operating system available. Apache, an open source web server architecture, is the most popular web server in the world. Perl, a robust scripting language, is used to run huge, highly ...
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