Open Source Michael - Meskes Community meets Business
Michael Meskes Free Software since 1993 Linux since 1994 Debian GNU/Linux since 1995 PostgreSQL since 1998
Michael Meskes 1992 1996 Ph.D. 1996 1998 Project Manager 1998 2000 Branch Manager Since 2000 President
Open Source Support Center 24/7/365 Phone Email Remote On-site Consulting Installation Administration Operations Training Support
Europe Northern America Asia Long Standing Experience 1999: HQ in Mönchengladbach, Germany 2004: Office opened: Rugby, UK 2006: Open Source Support Center (OSSC) 2007: Office opened: Toronto, Canada 2009: Office opened: San Diego, USA 2009: Office opened: Munich, Germany 2011: Office opened: Bengaluru, India 2013: Office opened: Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014: Office opened: Barcelona, Spain 2015: more to come
OSS In Corporate IT Exim Postfix Sendmail Microsoft Other E-Mail E-Soft Inc. Cybercom Group Dovecot Courier Exchange UW-Imap MailEnable Cyrus Other
OSS In Apache nginx Google IIS Other Corporate IT Webserver Netcraft
OSS Oracle MySQL Microsoft SQL Server PostgreSQL DB2 Microsoft Access SQLite Sybase Other In Corporate IT DBMS DB-Engines
Michael Meskes We Arrived! Samericnick@Wikipedia
The Beginning Venusianer@German Wikipedia
The Beginning 2nd Try Gisle Hannemyr linuxmag.com
Pure Community Ilya Schurov
From the Halls of Berkeley
The world's most advanced open source database
The Way To The Data Centers Open Source For Business
Internet Open Security Location 1 - Firewall Entry 1 Entry 2 Location 2 - Firewall Entry 1 Entry 2 Filter Node 1 Node 2 Node... Node n E-Mail Gateway Node 1 Node 2 Node... Node n E-Mail Server E-Mail Server Management / Logging / RBL Management / Logging / RBL
FOSS Traverses The Stack
Top Business Software Reasons Quality Freedom From Vendor Lock In Flexibility
What to Update? All Or Nothing
What to Update? Your Decision!
Openness Is Important Infrogmation of New Orleans
Software Development Waterfall Model Paul Hoadley
Software Development Waterfall Model
Free and Open Source Software The Choice For Business Critical Open standards High quality software and support Tailor-made standard software Independence No vendor lock-in Protection of investment No licence cost Usage
Total Cost Software Hardware Training Downtime Staff Misc Of Ownership Source: IDC 2007
Bug Fixing Total Customization Cost Flexibility Of Ownership Lock-In Time to market Interoperability Migration Ease of Intregation
positive Return On Benefits Investment Investment Costs negative
Return 8 7 6 On 5 4 Investment 3 2 1 0 0,00 500.000,00 1.000.000,00
Migration Choose a capable manager Create a solid planning basis Alphamu57@Wikipedia To Open Design top-down, implement bottom-up Consider all processes and data traffic No interim, temporary or isolated solutions Essential parts have to be redundant Remember training, maintenance and support Source
Open Source Licensing Ethel Aardvark
Open GPL V2 GPL V3 LGPL MIT Apache BSD Artistic Misc Source Licensing Source: Black Duck Software, Inc.
Software Patents Berdea@Wikimedia
Service Providers
Support Payed vs. Free
Obstacles Going Forward MCPearson@Wikipedia
Certification Must Make Sense Bin im Garten@German Wikipedia Andrevruas@Wikipedia
Open Source Michael - Meskes Community meets Business