Open source software development at its finest is a communal effort
When I originally discovered open source software, most of the projects were usually works of love, developed by passionate amateurs in their free time and that were interesting but were often not production ready, poorly documented and sometimes less innovative than closed source software
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
If your systems can already communicate, your information won't be held hostage. 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. When we built LincDoc for example, we took advantage of technology like PostgreSQL to keep our users from having to purchase additional software to implement ours. With Open Source solutions and open file formats, content lock in is practically impossible
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
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
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
In fact, I’d guess that much of the software they’d need for today’s conditions could be had from truly viable open source sources. So maybe they could afford me, after all
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