The Open Source: Open for Business report examines the 10 trends defining the open source movement, the legal and business issues and recommendations for getting started on an open source journey.

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
Something disruptive is happening when:

• organizations operate on the premise of paying $0 for new software infrastructure, demanding justification for any purchase costs above that
• a global software development community over 800,000 strong challenges the leading software vendors like no competitor can
• organizations achieve time-to-market, innovation and product quality like never before
• commodity computing platforms bring significant price-performance benefits to more and more organizations, defying proprietary approaches
• organizations eye the methodology of the global development community to improve their own way of developing software
• governments around the world issue directives steering away from proprietary software
• software vendors are forced to prove their case.

That disruption is open source, the software development model made popular by the Linux operating system. With Linux as the star, there is a rich cast of open source software available today for Web servers, application servers, databases, content management, office systems, browsers, development tools, security and more. Open source brings about the reorganization of millions of software developers into global collaborative communities, amassing a strength orders of magnitude greater than what is possible in the proprietary software realm. ...

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CONTENTS
2 GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS
6 TREASURE CHEST: TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
6 Culture of Community:
The heart and soul of open source is community.
11 Moving Up the Stack:
Open source is not just Linux.
23 Mission Critical:
Open source is industrial strength.
31 Sweet Spot:
Open source yields targeted savings.
44 Software Revolution:
Open source accelerates development and incubates new ideas.
49 At Your Service:
Service opens up new business opportunities.
55 Invisible Man:
Open source is all around us.
60 Market Force:
Open source increases competition, challenging established market powers.
65 New Domains:
Open source lives in many domains.
69 Fun Factor:
Open source gets your creative juices flowing.
74 LEGAL AND BUSINESS ISSUES
84 GETTING STARTED
87 APPENDIX: HANDY WEB SITES
91 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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