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Why is Open Source Important?
“According to a survey by Accenture, more than two-thirds of organizations anticipate increasing their investment in it this year, and almost 40% said that they expect to migrate mission-critical software to open source within the next 12 months.”Readwrite Enterprise, June 24, 2010
“The UK Government is accelerating the use of open source in schools, government departments and public services by making sure that open source is considered . . .”
“Vietnam has a goal of migrating government software to open source by the end of 2010.”
“Munich, Germany is making extensive use of open source software on municipal PCs, including Thunderbird and Open Office.”
“The United States has made a number of recent moves toward open source: the whitehouse.gov move to Drupal, the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software, and more.”Open Source Adoption in Worldwide Governments
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2010/01/19/open-source-adoption-in-worldwide-governments/
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Definition
Free ?Use of volunteers, donationsSupport by companies like IBMFee support, licensing
Need to distinguish between:Free open source softwareCommercial open source software
“Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source
materials—typically, their source code”- Wikipedia
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Successful Open Source Products
LinuxOriginally written by Linus Torvalds in 1991IDS ran on Linux in 1998 (7.30.UC5)
Apache Software Foundation (73 projects)A patchy http serverGeronimo, Tomcat, Lucene, iBatis
Eclipse (Started as an IBM Canada project)Eclipse Foundation created in 2004
Hibernate (Java object relational mapping)Development supervised by Redhat/JBoss
Social networking products: Mediawiki, Drupal, Joomla!, etc.Other
Dojo, Hadoop
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Commercial Open Source Examples
Alfresco (Enterprise Content Management)Uses Hibernate, moving to iBatis
Lotus Symphony?, Open OfficeOffice productivity suite (document, presentation, spreadsheet)
Multiple flavors of LinuxRedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.
Sugar CRM (Customer Relationship Management)Open Source support for MySQL, SQL Server
MonoOpen source implementation of Microsoft's .NET application framework
DatabasesMySQL, Ingres, BerkeleyDB, etc.
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Not Open source but...
IBM Data StudioEclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)Can be used for Informix stored procedures debuggingBundled with Informix (11.70) media
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE)Used Apache Tomcat and GeronimoFree download. Fee-based support available by IBM
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Open Source and Informix
Mediawiki (PHP)Wiki engine behind WikipediaPorted to Informix on version 1.15.x – Done first half of 2010Current version 1.16.0 (July 28, 2010)
Hibernate (Java)Persistence layer, object to relational mappingUpdated dialect, changes to some codeCode changes not needed with Informix 11.70
Drupal (PHP)Content management platform, community, blog softwareVersion 6.16 working with Informixwww.briug.org runs Drupal on Informix
Xwiki (Java)Second-generation wiki, allows scripting in pages
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Current Projects
AlfrescoEnterprise content managementBeing worked on by More Data ([email protected])
BugzillaBug tracking system written in PerlPort in progress
DDLUtilsConvert DDL from one vendor to anotherAssigned to a volunteer
PentahoBusiness intelligence toolPort completion expected soon
ZabbixSystem monitoring toolPort in progress for version 1.8.4rc2
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Potential Projects
AtlasianJira: project and issue trackingConfluence: wikis, collaboration
SugarCRMCustomer Relationship Management
JahiaWeb content integration
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Where to find out: www.iiug.org/opensource
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Open Source: What's Next?
Get more volunteersDo you want to participate?
Work with partners
Work with commercial open source vendors
Work on contribution
Work on specific open-source productsBased on demand/opportunities