Open source software development at its finest is a communal effort
Again, open source projects such as Apache Hadoop and memcached have been helping companies deliver solutions that are production ready and scale well to thousands of nodes, and are entirely based on the efforts of the open source community
In this blog post, I talk about the reality of building open source enterprise software, at least talking from personal experience. Open source software is, at least from an engineering point of view, possibly the best way to develop software
The fundamentals of a successful open source development project are often identical to the goals identified by “Enterprise 2.0” or “Social Enterprise” champions
Support open source. With common products like Android, Apache,Wikipedia, and Word Press, chances are you already use open source on a daily basis. In the ECM world, open source software typically means lower costs, more flexibility, and faster implementations
Open source happy: When the open source concept was started, it was a bunch of benevolent nerds, like myself, just wanting people to play with their technology. Open source does not mean that anymore. All the open source companies I interact with in the capture space are very much for profit
In order to answer that question, I believe we need to look in the direction of open source software and standard definitions
Older folks seem to have an aversion against open source technologies, younger folks have the exact opposite aversion against commercial technologies...When open source technology is brought up there is an instant confusion and disregard
However, coming from an open source background as the co-founder and CTO of Alfresco, open source has had a profound impact on Web 2.0 and is having a profound impact on Enterprise 2.0
Just as CMIS has accelerated its adoption across ECM applications due to developer contributions to the open source Apache Chemistry project, so is OpenSocial finding critical mass with the open source Apache Shindig project