Open Source Michael - Meskes A Blessing Or A Curse?
Actively Free Software since 1993 Working Linux since 1994 On Debian GNU/Linux since 1995 Open Source PostgreSQL since 1998
Actively 1992 1996 Ph.D. Working 1996 1998 Project Manager On 1998 2000 Branch Manager Open Source Since 2000 President/CEO
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
Open Source Support Center 24/7/365 Phone Email Remote On-site Consulting Installation Administration Operations Training Support
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
OSS In Corporate IT We Have Arrived! Samericnick@Wikipedia
Patent infringement OSS Security of investments License conflict License fees Expertise Support In Security Freaks & Toys ROI Corporate IT Toni Sant
Security Liability Or Asset Muntasirmamunimran@Wikimedia
Security by obscurity Security Liability Source Code Or Asset Bad Guys Good Guys
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow Security Liability Source Code Or Asset Bad Guys Good Guys
Finished Product Proprietary Software Open Source Self developed Acquired proprietary
Usage In Software Development Jez Humble
Usage In Software Reduce time to market Lower costs for maintenance Lower costs for licensing Save development resources for unique functionality Development
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
No License Fees Kristy Chahil
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
Return positive On Benefits Investment Costs Investment negative
Return 8 7 6 On 5 4 3 2 Investment 1 0 0,00 500.000,00 1.000.000,00
Security Of Investments Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike. Benjamin Graham (1973) The Intelligent Investor Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286 Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
Open Is Important Infrogmation of New Orleans
Upgrades Are Juhko@WIkimedia Important
Special Expertise Missing Matthew Roth
Special Expertise Missing
Service Providers
Support Payed vs. Free
Open Source Volunteer (< 5% working time) Mixed (5%-95% working time) Paid (> 95% working time) Done By Numbers by Professor Dirk Riehle Freaks?
Open Source A Toy? Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, German Government Dutch Government Deutsche Lufthansa Deutsche Telekom Insurance companies Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkeIn, Rheinmetall Defence Airbus...
Open Source Michael - Meskes A Blessing Or A Curse?