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Open Source as a Catalyst forInnovation and Cultural ChangeFeaturing Yahoo!
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Speakers
Andrew Aitken
Senior VicePresident of theOlliance Group
Gil Yehuda
Director ofOpen SourceYahoo!, Inc.
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Agenda
Open Source and Innovation in Industry Today
How Open Source Drove Innovation at Yahoo!
Q&A
Summary & Conclusion
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About - Andrew Aitken
Founded in 2001 - acquired by Black Duck 12/31/2010
Mission: To help clients capitalize on the strategic,technological, and financial benefits of open source.
The leading open source business and strategy consultingfirm.
500 projects for more than 150 clients
Founded Olliance Group in 2001
Created the Open Source Think Tank Conference
Invite-only event for industry influencers to discuss the future ofcommercial open source
On Board of Advisors at SugarCRM, Actuate, DotNetNuke &Funambol
Assisted in the development of open source strategies withcompanies such as: IBM, Sun, Intel, Nokia and HP
Voted one of the most influential people in open source, in 2009,
by a survey of peers conducted by Mindtouch, Inc.
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About Gil Yehuda
Gil is the Director of Open Source Strategy at Yahoo! Inc.
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gil was a Senior Analyst at ForresterResearch focusing on information management, knowledgemanagement, and collaboration strategy. He was also anEnterprise Architect at Fidelity Investments where he wasresponsible for IT governance and development technologystandards. Gil is an influential blogger in the Enterprise 2.0,Open Source, and Innovation marketplace, and has beenkeynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous
conferences.
Gil blogs at www.GilYehuda.com and tweets @gyehuda
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In an environment of scarcity,controlling the resources leads
to wealth.
What about in an environment ofabundance?
Consider
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Changing Face of Software Development
Software development has changed
Collaborative development Organizational transparency
Componentization & search for re-use
Distributed teams, agile methods
Market Need: Managing Abundance Over 500,000 FOSS projects
Maturation and proliferation is causing:
Balkanization
Sourcing and evaluation challenges
Developer mindshare drift
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OpenSource
Innovation
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Automotive
GENIVI is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoptionof an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform. GENIVI will accomplishthis by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering
certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. Ourwork will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, andreduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software.
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Veterans Affairs VistA Modernization
VA believes that the most reliable, most cost effective, and quickestmechanism to re-position this tremendous national asset and to keep pacewith innovation is to create a custodial agent based on well-understoodopen source business models. By doing so, and better proliferate thoseinnovations inside our hospitals and clinics.
However, todays health care environment in which new models of careare continuously developed and deployed is utterly dependent upon theaccelerating technological development of new medical devices, improvedIT infrastructure, services, and wireless communications.
VA believes that the creation of an EHR ecosystem is a key enabler to therapid development and deployment of innovations that will benefit theentire market.
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Agenda
Three Conclusions
Two examples of Yahoo!s Open Source activities
Discussion about Open Source and Open Innovation
Economics of abundance
Community as an Organization model Loyalty
Discussions
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Conclusion 1:
Information abundance implies a shift in expertise needs fromPeople who know thingsto People who can find things.
We see new trends in the way we managethe creation of insight
Transparency: less cost, more value than secrecy, sometimes.
The friction of finding and working with an external expert is lessthan with an internal expert
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Changes in the Information Age
drive an ethos of Openness.
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Conclusion 2:
Leveraging existing commodity standard technology
Creating commodity standards where there are none
Creating an open platform to raise the level of technology for all
Design for diversity because you design by diversity
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Strategic use of Open Source
creates beneficial platform effects.
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Conclusion 3:
Open Source requires working with people you dont control
Communities dont always share visions
Working with your competitors is tricky
Your employees are motivated by self-interest
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Working with people you dont controlis hard
Get over it.
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Yahoo!s interest in Hadoop
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Stuffyou
see
Yahoo!s Websites: News, Finance, Sports, Groups
OMG!, Shine, Mail, Answers, etc.
Stuffyou
do
ntsee
Yahoo!s Unique Value
Science + Art + Scale Content, Ads, Users Networks
Big Data Cloud Engine
Hadoop + other technologies
Commodity Web technology
PHP, Apache, Linux, etc.
OpenSource
OpenSource
Security
Proprietary
Value
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Yahoo!s interest in Javascript & Node.JS
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Yahoo!s YUI Technology
Node.JS
Some verycompelling new
products from Yahoo!
Stuff that makes this work at scale
and complexity for the businessproblem we are solving for.
Some verycompelling new
products from others.
OpenSource
Yahoo!
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Analysis of Options
Keep the platform proprietary
Delaycompetitionfrom creatingknock-offproducts.
Be alone caringabout theplatformsdevelopment.
Open Source it
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Helps getsharedinvestment inthe platform tohelp us all.
Forces our
product tocompete on fullexperience, nottiming.
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The three institutions of social control
Government Marketplace
Community
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Community Strength
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Interest Fate Faith
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Developers loyalty
Information might be a commodity, but high-caliber developers are a
scarcity and attracting their loyalty is increasingly important.
Why do software developers love working on Open Source projects?
If you are the custodian of an Open Source project who do youreport to?
Is orchestrated dual-loyalty a problem in an environment oftransparency?
What is the money story?
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An indicator of Yahoo!s innovation
Yahoo! has about 14,000 employees and 1000 US issued patents.
There a 2321 unique inventor employees on Yahoo! patents
Two Yahoo employee share the record of holding the largestnumber of Yahoo! patents (57 each).
Yahoo! placed 9th on San Francisco Business Timeslist of
Largest Patent Recipients in the Greater Bay Area.
Yahoo! earliest patents date from 1997. Its 500thUS patent wasissued in 2009. Its 1000th was just issued recently a remarkablesurge in the past 3 years.
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Summary & Conclusion
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Open Source Think Tank
The Industrys Most Unique Event: Now in its 6th year, this bi-annual (Napa & Paris), invitation-only event brings the leading
global FOSS experts together to discuss the future of commercialopen source thinktank.olliancegroup.com
Global audience - 50% NA, 35% EMEA, 15% other
Real-world case study format
Spring 2011, Sonoma, CA
Theme: The Evolution of Business Models and the Intersection of Open Sourceand the Cloud
Fall 2011, Paris, France, Sept 20th & 21st
Theme: Open Source as an Innovation, Cultural and Organizational Catalyst
Concorde Opera Paris Hotel
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