The Open Source Alternative

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The Question

• Is Open Source
• An Alternative?

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Phase I The Tall Head
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Phase II The Long Tail
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Short list of long tail componentsbeing put to
use in just one company
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The Big Picture

• Power Promise
• Of
• Open Source

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Power Promise of Open Source Qualities

• Code availability
• Source Code Transparency
• Consensus for cooperation
• Best Design Wins
• No barriers to participation
• Everybody plays

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Power Promise of Open Source Benefits

• No vendor lock-in
• Enables diverse business models
• software as service
• support
• dual-license
• Best of Breed
• Cooperation tends to drive standards
• Information value, not just utility value

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Business Proposition Materializing the Vision

• Diverting Maintenance Spend
• To
• Strategic Development Investments

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Single Sign On _at_ Midwest Tool Die

• http//interactive.linuxjournal.com/article/6266

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Single Sign On _at_ Midwest Tool Die

• http//www.linuxjournal.com/article/6767

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Data collection _at_ Central Boiler Turbine
Institute

• http//new.linuxjournal.com/article/6425

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Growth Pattern Higher SLAs Solutions

• SugarCRM, Groundwork, Mambo,

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Open and Business ReadyEvolving To The Next Level

• Reusability
• Integration and Testing
• Solutions
• Ratings and Evaluations

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Quality Initiative Proprietary vs. Open
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Value Proposition

• Open Standards
• AJAX, OpenDoc
• Simple Architecture
• Wiki, ROR Sandbox
• Extensible Patterns
• FCKEditor, Spell Checkers, SSO Plug-ins

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Wiki WYSIWYG Editor Spell Checker
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Application Life Cycle

• What It Takes?
• Learn, Evaluate, Download
• Prototype, Architect, Integrate
• Implement, Test, Regress
• Update, Upgrade, Migrate
• The Intangible Cost
• The Economies of Scale

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The Bottom Line

• YOU WONT BE FIRED
• IF YOU CHOOSE
• OPEN SOURCE

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Are We Ready

• 8 Application Types
• You Can Build
• With Open Source

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App Pattern 1 Status Info Apps

• Order Status
• Rebate Status
• Warranty Management

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App Pattern 2 Collaborative Apps

• Project Reports
• Departmental Intranets
• Group Collaboration
• Meeting Minutes
• Support Operations Management

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App Pattern 3 Information Management Apps

• Emails
• Search
• Knowledge Base
• Discussion Forums
• Help Desk

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App Pattern 4 Temporal Data Apps

• Reports
• Analytics
• Monitoring Charts
• Business Intelligence

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App Pattern 5 Data Processing Apps

• Metadata Management
• Event Filters
• Triggers Alerts
• Data Crawlers
• Recommendation Engines
• Configuration Engines

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App Pattern 6 Personalization Apps

• Customer Employee Portals
• Up-selling Cross-selling
• Personalized Service Management

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App Pattern 7 Desktops Devtops

• Sound File editors
• Hard disk recorders
• Image editors
• Dev Environment Tomcat, Eclipse
• Dev Tools Testing Tools, SVN/CVS
• Lib Modules Struts, Hibernate, Spring

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App Pattern 8 The Disruption

• Micro Formats
• Grease Monkey
• Housing Maps
• Web Emails

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The Disruption Composite Web Services
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The Disruption Web Email Clients
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