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Open Source for the Enterprise

ISBN: 596101198
EAN: N/A

Year: 2003
Pages: 134

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• 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
• A
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• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
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• V
• W
• X
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• Page #133 (Index)