enterprise open source

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• Open Source and the notion of “why less may be more”

  
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  Many people have compared leading commercial proprietary software offerings such as SAP , Siebel or Filenet with Open Source alternatives (such as OpenBravo , SugarCRM or Alfresco ). The conclusion often was that the Open Source option can’t compete on features and breadth. But the fact is that in many ...
  3 days ago

• Who has really profited from Open Source?

  
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  There have been many discussions about the benefits of Open Source - the usually mentioned cost reductions and reduced dependencies, or the positive impact on development and implementation speed (as just mentioned in a blog pos t by Jan Lyman from 451 Group). A key question though is who actually has really ...
  1 week ago

• Fair comparisons of commercial proprietary and open source software in evaluations

  
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  The US DOD just published a memo on how to deal with Open Source software. And they make a good point that Open Source software should looked at the same ways as any other software . But is this really possible? Do governmental and commercial organizations really create the ground for a fair comparison? Most ...
  2 weeks ago

• China ahead in Open Source adoption

  
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  Actuate published its 2009 Open Source Survey . What is interesting is the adoption rate in specific countries. Here’s what Actuate’s press release summarizes: China reveals high adoption rates with a large majority of those surveyed ( 80.3% ) using open source software. In all regions surveyed the main ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Source as the platform for the things you don’t want SAP and Microsoft to do?

  
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   Many enterprises have two main application technologies settled in their IT landscape. Everything what has to do with office, client infrastructure and local productivity is typically Microsoft. Everything that has to do with enterprise resource planning (ERP) is supported by SAP (or maybe Oracle). Both technology ...
  3 weeks ago

• Running the IT of a company with Open Source software only?

  
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   Many people have wondered whether running a company using Open Source software is possible. The answer is “yes we can”. Does it make sense though? Well, it depends. There are good alternatives for almost every important commercial software available today. Are they able to beat the commercial proprietary ...
  4 weeks ago

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