1. Demystifying Free and Open Source Software Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace F/OSS in the Enterprise Seth Galitzer (CIS) David White (CAPD) Kansas State University

2. Free Software – Richard Stallman http://www.fsf.org/

3. Open Source Software – Eric Raymond http://opensour ce.org/

4. Linux OS – Linus Torvalds http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

5. What do we really mean?  Access to software  Access to code  Permission for redistribution  Everything else is philosophical debate

6. When we say “free”... … as in ”speech”, not as in ”beer”

7. Just because it's free (as in beer) It doesn't mean software companies (or you) can't make money from it

8. Audience Participation Time Tell us a little about yourselves...

9. Why not use F/OSS now? Fear Of Change

10. Guess what Users deal with change all the time  MS Office ribbon interface  Mac OS  Mobile devices  Online apps

11. Things F/OSS doesn't do well (yet)  Personal Finance  Video Editing  Project Management  GIS  CAD  Medical Sector

12. Things F/OSS does really well (so far)  The Internet  Databases  Lots of other stuff

13. Strengths in general  Security (maybe also a weakness?)  Consistency  Open data  No vendor lock-in  YOU decide what is best

14. Desktop Applications: Office Productivity Word/Excel/PPT/Publisher Adobe Acrobat Pro Publisher/InDesign PDF Creator Scribus AbiWordGnumeric Libre/OpenOffice

15. Desktop Applications: Internet – Web Browsers Internet Explorer Safari Firefox Google Chrome Opera

16. Desktop Applications: Internet – Email Clients Outlook Mail.app Thunderbird Evolution Claws

17. Desktop Applications: Graphics The GIMP Inkscape Photoshop Illustrator

18. Desktop Applications: Other BansheeAmarokSongbird ShotwellF-Spot digiK am  3D Rendering  Media Management  Photo Management

19. Desktop Applications = The Cloud TM

20. Enterprise Applications: Outward Facing LAMP Stack A pache M ySQL/Postgres P HP/Python/Perl L inux

21. Enterprise Applications: Your Users Digital Signage Ditigal Asset Mgmt Video Conferencin g

22. Enterprise Applications: You  Monitoring  Helpdesk Ticketing

23. Enterprise Applications: Other High Performance Computing (clusters) The Cloud ™

24. The Bottom Line F/OSS means choice

25. Resources http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~sgsax/talks/demystifying_foss/ http://kan.st/GE