| | | 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-Generation/Single-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 |
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| | | | About the Authors |
| | | | Colophon |
| | | Index |
