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Preface | |
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The Nature of Open Source | |
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The Open Source Debate | |
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Understanding Your Open Source Readiness | |
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The Nature of Open Source | |
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What Is Open Source? | |
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Where Does Open Source Come From? | |
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How Does Open Source Grow? | |
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How Does Open Source Die? | |
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Leadership in the Open Source Life Cycle | |
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Second-Generation Trends in Open Source | |
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The Different Roots of Commercial Software | |
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Productization: The Key to Understanding the Challenge of Using Open Source | |
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Comparing the Risks of Commercial and Open Source Software | |
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Measuring the Maturity of Open Source | |
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Open Source Traps | |
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The Elements of Open Source Maturity | |
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The Open Source Maturity Model | |
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The Open Source Skill Set | |
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Preventing an Open Source Nightmare | |
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Open Source Skill Levels | |
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Open Source Skills Inventory | |
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How Maturity Affects Required Skills and Resources | |
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Skills and Risks | |
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Open Source Skill Building | |
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Making the ROI Case | |
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ROI Fashions | |
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How Open Source Costs Differ from Commercial Software Costs | |
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Making Your Own ROI Model | |
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Skills Versus Money | |
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Designing an Open Source Strategy | |
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Crafting a Strategy for Open Source Adoption | |
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Crafting a Strategy for Applying Open Source | |
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Crafting a Strategy for Managing Open Source | |
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Support Models for Open Source | |
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Open Source Support Offers | |
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When Is Commercial Open Source Support the Right Choice? | |
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Buy Carefully | |
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Making Open Source Projects Easy to Adopt | |
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One Program for Productization | |
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Basic Information and Community Support | |
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Reducing the Skills Gap for Getting Started | |
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Accelerating Learning | |
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Integration | |
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Benefits of Increased Adoption | |
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Opportunities for Skill Building | |
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A Comparison of Open Source Licenses | |
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Many Flavors of Licenses | |
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The Classic Licenses | |
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The BSD Licenses: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD | |
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The MIT License | |
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Second-Generation/Single-Project Licenses | |
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Corporate Licenses | |
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Why Pick Just One? The Dual Licensing Option | |
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Open Source Under Attack | |
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SCO Versus IBM and the Legal Quandary of Open Source | |
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What You Need to Know About SCO | |
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What It All Means: The Implications of the SCO Crisis | |
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Open Source Empowerment | |
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Two Poles of IT: Buy Versus Build | |
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Where to Buy, Where to Build | |
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Closing the Requirements Gap | |
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Open Source Empowerment | |
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The Vision and Challenge of IT | |
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The Open Source Platform | |
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End-User Computing on the Desktop | |
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Open Source and Email | |
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Groupware, Portals, and Collaboration | |
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Web Publishing and Content Management | |
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Application Development | |
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Index | |