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Fri, Jun 6, 2008 10:59 EDT
Building an Open Source-Ready IT Organization
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Posted by: Bernard Golden in Best Practices Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Executives Online
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So, let's suppose you're a senior IT exec convinced of the open source value proposition. You want to use it more aggressively.One of the issues raised about open source adoption is the paucity of
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Should IT Leaders Worry about Fragmentation in the Open Source Community?
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: ArchitectureBlog: Executives Online
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The history of the computer industry makes it clear: a pendulum swings back and forth between innovation (generally coming from relatively small, independent visionaries... which battle one another
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The Open Source Support Question
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: Partner/Vendor ManagementBlog: Executives Online
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Support for open source products is a common obstacle cited by enterprise customers who are considering open source software alternatives. This is possibly a matter of perception... but perhaps not.
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What Risks Do Corporate Open-Source Contributions Present?
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: Enterprise ManagementBlog: Executives Online
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Enterprise IT personnel contributions to open source projects and products is becoming more common and even benefical to the enterprise. But, what risks does this open up to the enterprise?
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What Does Open-Source Adoption Change?
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Executives Online
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Companies looking to bring open-source software into the enterprise surely expect some things to change. There's a sense of, well, personal responsibility. If you don't like the way a feature works,
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Where Are the Legal and Intellectual Property Bodies Buried in Open Source Adoption?
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Executives Online
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While I wrote earlier about open-source licensing, that's just one of the legal issues for IT managers to deal with. In the old days, a company could adopt a draconian attitude about everything its
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What Should IT Managers Know About Open-Source Licensing?
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Posted by: Esther Schindler in Questions Topic: IT Organization ManagementBlog: Executives Online
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People who are themselves active in the open-source community give a lot of attention to licensing. When we wrote recently about a new Cisco messaging protocol, most of the Slashdot discussion and
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