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National Technology & Business Conference

WHEN TO USE OPEN SOURCE. Tony Kenny, IT Manager, Beaumont Hospital (Speaking in personal capacity). National Technology & Business Conference. 29 November 2006. POTENTIAL. PRACTICALITY. PRINCIPLE. National Technology & Business Conference. DO. GOOD. BAD. DONT. 29 November 2006.

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National Technology & Business Conference

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  1. WHEN TO USE OPEN SOURCE Tony Kenny, IT Manager, Beaumont Hospital (Speaking in personal capacity) National Technology & Business Conference 29 November 2006

  2. POTENTIAL PRACTICALITY PRINCIPLE National Technology & Business Conference DO GOOD BAD DONT 29 November 2006

  3. PRAGMATISM OSS PROPRIETARY DBMS OS SERVER DOC MGMT WEB SERVER MTA/MAIL SERVER SPAM SYSTEM MONITORING DIRECTORY ASSET MGMT PORTAL FIREWALL MIDDLEWARE OS BROWSER PRODUCTIVITY WEBMAIL A/V DESKTOP National Technology & Business Conference ORACLE SQL Server HP Image MS Server 2000 HP-UX HP-MPE MY SQL POSTGRES Red Hat Linux Debian ZOPE/CPS JBOSS Postfix Open Exchange Canit NAGIOS Open LDAP In-House CPS Smoothwall Web Logic/Web Sphere Active Directory Lan Desk Web Logic Check Point Red Hat (100) Firefox Star/Open Office(880) Squirrel Clam AV NT4/XP (1200) IE 6 MS Office (250) Outlook SOPHOS 29 November 2006

  4. National Technology & Business Conference PRAGMATISM POTENTIAL 29 November 2006

  5. POTENTIAL National Technology & Business Conference • DESKTOP • Strong user pushback on Star Office / Linux • Wide process of user consultation • Interoperable formats • Democratic • Desire for consistency 29 November 2006

  6. PRACTICALITY MARKET SHARE FOR WEB SERVERS - AUG 1995 - NOV 2006 [Net Craft Survey 2006] WEB BROWSERS Mozilla/Firefox use growing [Net Craft Survey 2005] National Technology & Business Conference 29 November 2006

  7. PRACTICALITY EMAIL Send Mail - 42% MS/Exchange - 18% (Source - D.J. Bernstein) OPEN SSH 5% Share 87% Share OPEN SSH National Technology & Business Conference BUT M/S O/S - 98% DESKTOP M/S SUITE - 90% (Source - Yankee Group 2005) 29 November 2006

  8. PRACTICALITY 70% What’s more secure 80% 60% 70% 50% 60% 40% 50% 30% 40% 20% 30% 10% 20% 10% 0% 0% Server OS Desktop/Client OS Web Servers Componenet/Libs Database Servers MS Windows Linux Sun Solaris Server Very insecure or Insecure OSS/FS Secure or very secure Proprietary National Technology & Business Conference Survey of 6,344 software development managers favoured FLOSS (BZ Research April 2005) 91% of broadband users have spyware on their home computers (proprietary OS) [National Cyber Security Alliance, May 2003] 29 November 2006

  9. POTENTIAL National Technology & Business Conference USER FACING - Value we know Cost of learning Vs buying Market acceptance Value perception ENGINEER FACING - Vienna City Council 16,000 PC’s -> 7,500 possible Long consultative process Many different perspectives Massachusetts ODF Experience 29 November 2006

  10. POTENTIAL National Technology & Business Conference REAL ISSUES SYSTEM FACING - Management by magazine Software engineering skills Need for integration work Package configuration “IT buyers don’t care whether its Java or .NET, closed or open source. They just want stuff that works. We are just trying to correct the misapprehension that it’s Microsoft versus Open Source …” Microsoft speaker - OSBC (June 2006) UNREAL ISSUES Support / Maintenance FUD (Fear - Uncertainty - Doubt) Business Alignment 29 November 2006

  11. POTENTIAL SUN Red Hat IBM HP Relative insignificance of software licence cost National Technology & Business Conference WELL PROVEN TRACK RECORD Reference Blue Prints Open standards Solid range of delivered solutions BUT Business buy in Cost displacement Legal threats 29 November 2006

  12. POLICY • AVOID VENDOR LOCK IN • PICKING WINNING SEGMENTS • LIMITED SCOPE EXPERIMENTATION • DOING YOUR OWN THINKING • CITIZENSHIP • Software Community • Local Community • World Community • STAYING IN ORGANISATION COMFORT ZONE National Technology & Business Conference 29 November 2006

  13. POLICY • Software as giveaway • Software as product • Software as advertising • sales National Technology & Business Conference BUSINESS MODELS EXTERNAL FORCES • Advertising • Social networks • Public policy • Academic research • Education • Practical results • Reaction of Proprietary Suppliers 29 November 2006

  14. Potential Practicality Principal National Technology & Business Conference Open Source Software 29 November 2006

  15. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS David Wheeler, www.dwheeler.com Professor Brian Fitzgerald, CISC, University of Limerick National Technology & Business Conference 29 November 2006

  16. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally J.M. Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money National Technology & Business Conference 29 November 2006

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