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Open Source Enterprise

ACM News Service: Open -Source Practices Moving Into Enterprise Development.  This blurb reminds me of two things.  First, the article is about how in-house software development is moving toward open-source-based content and methodologies.  This appears to be related to the harmony with iterative development, collaboration, and reuse in application-development shops.

Secondly, it illustrates what seems to be the successful case of open-source ISV operation: having a fundamental open-source product for which there is a supported, packaged commercial version.  There is also the allied notion of having a free (open-source or not) version with a higher-value commercial version for businesses and others to adopt after being introduced via the free/open version.  VA Software and the SourceForge Enterprise packaging are an example.  The Jabber-XMPP and SourceID cases apply the technique directly, and there is some harmony in the PGP - OpenPGP/GnuPG case.  I find that heartening, perhaps even more so than the Linux-specific versions.

The 2004-12-07 John Waters Application Development Trends article goes deeper, especially with regard to the basis for the harmonies between open-source approaches and agile application development in enterprise shops.

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posted by orcmid at 12/10/2004 03:39:10 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online