Thu, 29 Jun 2006
Review: "Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks Reaping Rewards"
posted by Chip Witt
It is no secret...I think Open Source Software can be of tremendous value to some organizations, but up until quite recently, books on the subject tended to focus more on the tools than on the business cases in which value might be realized. This is probably quite typical when innovators and early adopters of technology try to impart the value to others...the message tends to contain information that is "cool" rather than truly valuable from an evaluation standpoint.
Woods and Guliani's Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks Reaping Rewards is a refreshing departure from the norm in books covering Open Source technologies for business. It clearly dissects the subject of Open Source, providing useful business-level processes organizations can put to work immediately to evaluate the viability of F/OSS tools for their organization. Regardless of your current stance on Open Source, pro or con, this text may be an eye-opener...and may even change your decision-making paradigm on the subject.
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