1. The document discusses open source adoption trends and the importance of community involvement in open source projects. It notes that over 50% of organizations plan to adopt open source software by 2010, including open source ERP.
2. Community is important for open source success but can be difficult to achieve. Most open source projects receive little outside involvement. The document outlines strategies for Openbravo to encourage community participation through modularity and the Openbravo Forge platform.
3. The conclusion emphasizes that community begins when users see self-interest in contributing to Openbravo's development and that both the company and users benefit from an active community.
1. Openbravo World Conference The Community Imperative Speaker: Matt Asay, VP of Business Development, Alfresco Barcelona, April 19, 2009
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3. Open source is now mainstream Source: Gartner 2008 Number of respondents = 274; Multiple responses allowed. Survey Question: Do you use, or plan to use in the next budget year, an open-source project or product as an alternative to commercial software? 53-55% to adopt open-source by 2010
4. But what about open-source ERP adoption? Source: Forrester, 2009 60% to adopt open-source ERP by 2010
5. Why open source? Source: Gartner Number of respondents = 274; Mean summary: Three responses allowed. Survey Question: Select your organization’s top three most important reasons for using open-source software.
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8. … In many ways, open source is working 87% 92% 86% 82% 84% 82% 91%
9. So open source is being used in more mission-critical tasks Open source is becoming the heart of enterprise computing
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11. It’s no longer about whether open source will succeed …but how (and which projects) The real differentiator going forward is community involvement Whether measured in terms of lines of code added or new projects, open-source growth is phenomenal Source: Dirk Riehle, SAP
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15. “ There is no upside to pushing freeloaders away.” Linus Torvalds, 2009
25. Agenda Open Source Rising Community Mechanics Openbravo’s Community Outreach Community Begins with You Concluding Remarks
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Notes de l'éditeur
On this slide, “none” indicates that no OSS projects for each of the categories will be implemented as an alternative to commercial software. Therefore, respondents will be using OSS in conjunction with commercial software. For example, 15% of survey respondents said they are not using OSS as an alternative to commercial software while 63% said they were using OSS operating system software, 54% for applications software, and 75% for infrastructure software as an alternative to commercial software.
Respondents were asked to select the top three most important reasons for using OSS software. This slide contains a summary of those results. Consistently across all eight countries, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and reduction and development of cost-prohibitive projects were major factors for selecting OSS. This clearly indicates these areas are highly cost-sensitive. Another strong reason for using OSS was that it makes it "somewhat" easier to embark on new IT projects or software initiatives. This, too, was indirectly driven as part of cost arbitrage. In interviews and conversations at various events, many attendees indicated that they also use OSS as investment protection against a single vendor "owning" the entire IT department. Managers use several vendors by design; however, with the large number of acquisitions during the past few years, many multivendor IT shops now include only one vendor. Most managers agreed that a single-vendor IT shop was a bigger risk than using OSS alternatives, even in mission-critical applications. Respondents also indicated that the major business reasons for using OSS projects and components were faster time to market, with reduced R&D costs (with no need to “reinvent the wheel”). Users indicated they are able to locate quality components to address niche problems quickly and easily. This faster time to market better positions them to meet the unique demands and requirements of internal and external customers and, in many cases, provides the ability to avoid complex procurement rules and procedures.
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24/07/06 November 2002 - Gartner says Jboss “mature” for embedding February 2003 - Jboss 4.0. The rest is history March 2003 - CNET and other news outlets start to cover middleware as open source’s new hunting ground March 2003 - Jboss kicks off its partner program Novell and HP partnership deals in Q2 2004 - Started paying dividends 9-12 months later May 2004 - $10M investment from Accel, Intel Capital, and Matrix Unisys in February 2005