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BENEFITS OF OPEN SOURCE

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“We’re committed to commercial software. Open source is good, but it requires so many more resources to support in the long run.” – Enterprise Architect for a major US grocery chain

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BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE (1)

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BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE (2)

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COUNTERING OPEN SOURCE CLAIMS

Countering OSS Claims

OSS Claim Counter-Response

OSS avoids vendor lock-in • More true for massive projects such as Linux, or narrowly-defined components and utilities used as project building-blocks;

• Less true for enterprise-class products (middleware, In-memory data stores), unless the end user has substantial in-house resources and commitment;

• Who is responsible for the (enhancement) commits? Is it a small group of vendor employees?

All required enhancements are generated for free by the OSS community

• Less true for enterprise-class products, especially if the requirement is complex, unpopular, highly-performance, high scale, etc. – in this case the end-user will do the work themselves or rely on a vendor.

Constant scrutiny of the OSS code by the OSS community ensures maximum security

• Recent instances have shown source code can lay exposed for long periods without the community spotting security flaws;

• Do your in-house developers have hours to spend scanning OSS source code for security flaws?

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SUMMARY

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