daniele.ocu ocu wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions on reading
material about business and FOSS4G.
The idea for this report would be a summary with metrics showing how
companies have changed after adopting FOSS4G. It would be a document
to present why adopting open source can be interesting for a company.
Again, with all due respect, I have to suggest that "adopting open
source" is such a broad term as to be essentially meaningless.
A company can:
- adopt a specific piece of open source technology, as the result of a
make/buy analysis for a specific software requirement (MySQL vs.
PostGres vs. roll-your-own) - where all the standard metrics of purchase
cost, maintenance cost, life-cycle cost apply
- incorporate a piece of open source code into a product
- develop a piece of software for internal use and then release it as
open source as a way to reduce support costs
- develop a software product and release it under an open source license
and/or a dual license model, as part of a specific business strategy
- develop a general open source model for internal use of software
- develop a general open source model for a software business
- etc., etc., etc.
What problem are you trying to solve?
--
Miles R. Fidelman, Director of Government Programs
Traverse Technologies
145 Tremont Street, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com
857-362-8314
www.traversetechnologies.com
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