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Loading ...It seems an apt question for the current times. Some businesses have fully embraced opensource, others have steered well clear of it. The pros and cons have been hotly contested, usually by people with an agenda, if not an axe to grind. Regardless of your historic stance, now is the right time to be looking at how to cut IT costs.
A blogger-in-technology that has much to say about the matter is JP Rangaswami of BT Design, and rightly so. His confused of calcutta blog is a firm favourite of mine, and of many others. “Learning about why people don’t adopt opensource” is a long, but worth-while read that circumnavigates many of the issues around open source software. It is in two halves. The first speaks to why people don’t use opensource:
- They hate the principle.
- They believe it’s insecure.
- They’re out of their comfort zone.
- They know a better way.
- They don’t know about it.
- They can’t do what they want with it.
- The move represents serious operational risk.
The second half covers a case study that will make your head spin. As an IT manager and MD/CEO, the issues at the top of my agenda would be around skills and support.
- If there is a fault that affects my business, can I get it fixed?
- Do I have access to the skills to install and support it?
- Do the users have the skills to use it, or can they be trained?
- Zenoss - Network and system monitoring software.
- Enomalism - Build your own private elastic compute cloud.
- rPath - Virtual appliances.
- Qumranet (part of Red Hat) - hypervisor technology.
- OpenAir - Project management software for professional service organizations.
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