Open Source for the Enterprise
- Open Source for the Enterprise
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Comments and Questions
- Safari Enabled
- Acknowledgments
- Dedications
- Chapter 1. The Nature of Open Source
- Section 1.1. The Open Source Debate
- Section 1.2. Understanding Your Open Source Readiness
- Section 1.3. The Nature of Open Source
- Section 1.4. What Is Open Source?
- Section 1.5. Where Does Open Source Come From?
- Section 1.6. How Does Open Source Grow?
- Section 1.7. How Does Open Source Die?
- Section 1.8. Leadership in the Open Source Life Cycle
- Section 1.9. Second-Generation Trends in Open Source
- Section 1.10. The Different Roots of Commercial Software
- Section 1.11. Productization: The Key to Understanding the Challenge of Using Open Source
- Section 1.12. Comparing the Risks of Commercial and Open Source Software
- Chapter 2. Measuring the Maturity of Open Source
- Section 2.1. Open Source Traps
- Section 2.2. The Elements of Open Source Maturity
- Section 2.3. The Open Source Maturity Model
- Chapter 3. The Open Source Skill Set
- Section 3.1. Preventing an Open Source Nightmare
- Section 3.2. Open Source Skill Levels
- Section 3.3. Open Source Skills Inventory
- Section 3.4. How Maturity Affects Required Skills and Resources
- Section 3.5. Skills and Risks
- Section 3.6. Open Source Skill Building
- Chapter 4. Making the ROI Case
- Section 4.1. ROI Fashions
- Section 4.2. How Open Source Costs Differ from Commercial Software Costs
- Section 4.3. Making Your Own ROI Model
- Section 4.4. Skills Versus Money
- Chapter 5. Designing an Open Source Strategy
- Section 5.1. Crafting a Strategy for Open Source Adoption
- Section 5.2. Crafting a Strategy for Applying Open Source
- Section 5.3. Crafting a Strategy for Managing Open Source
- Chapter 6. Support Models for Open Source
- Section 6.1. Open Source Support Offers
- Section 6.2. When Is Commercial Open Source Support the Right Choice?
- Section 6.3. Buy Carefully
- Chapter 7. Making Open Source Projects Easy to Adopt
- Section 7.1. One Program for Productization
- Section 7.2. Basic Information and Community Support
- Section 7.3. Reducing the Skills Gap for Getting Started
- Section 7.4. Accelerating Learning
- Section 7.5. Integration
- Section 7.6. Benefits of Increased Adoption
- Section 7.7. Opportunities for Skill Building
- Chapter 8. A Comparison of Open Source Licenses
- Section 8.1. Many Flavors of Licenses
- Section 8.2. The Classic Licenses
- Section 8.3. The BSD Licenses: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD
- Section 8.4. The MIT License
- Section 8.5. Second-GenerationSingle-Project Licenses
- Section 8.6. Corporate Licenses
- Section 8.7. Why Pick Just One? The Dual Licensing Option
- Chapter 9. Open Source Under Attack
- Section 9.1. SCO Versus IBM and the Legal Quandary of Open Source
- Section 9.2. What You Need to Know About SCO
- Section 9.3. What It All Means: The Implications of the SCO Crisis
- Chapter 10. Open Source Empowerment
- Section 10.1. Two Poles of IT: Buy Versus Build
- Section 10.2. Where to Buy, Where to Build
- Section 10.3. Closing the Requirements Gap
- Section 10.4. Open Source Empowerment
- Section 10.5. The Vision and Challenge of IT
- Appendix A. The Open Source Platform
- Section A.1. What Is a Platform?
- Section A.2. Three Open Source Platforms
- Section A.3. Assembling Your Open Source Platform
- Appendix B. End-User Computing on the Desktop
- Section B.1. Solutions
- Section B.2. Capabilities
- Section B.3. Open Source Desktop Environments: KDE
- Section B.4. Desktop Productivity Suites
- Section B.5. Desktop Database Management: MySQL
- Section B.6. Web Browsing: Firefox
- Appendix C. Open Source and Email
- Section C.1. A Brief History of Email for Enterprise Use
- Section C.2. Opportunities for IT Use of Open Source Email Products
- Section C.3. Open Source Email Server Solutions
- Section C.4. Recommended Email Server Projects
- Section C.5. Open Source Email Client Solutions
- Section C.6. Content Scanners
- Section C.7. Mailing List Managers
- Appendix D. Groupware, Portals, and Collaboration
- Section D.1. Groupware
- Section D.2. Portals
- Section D.3. Wikis
- Section D.4. Messaging Systems
- Appendix E. Web Publishing and Content Management
- Section E.1. Complete Content Management Systems
- Section E.2. Web Publishing and Content Management System Capabilities
- Section E.3. Recommended Open Source Content Management System Projects
- Section E.4. Weblog Publishing Systems
- Section E.5. Content Management System Toolkits and Components
- Appendix F. Application Development
- Section F.1. Capabilities
- Section F.2. Open Source Application Servers
- About the Authors
- Colophon
- Index
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