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
Free Software – Richard Stallman
Open Source Software – Eric Raymond ce.org/
Linux OS – Linus Torvalds
What do we really mean? Access to software Access to code Permission for redistribution Everything else is philosophical debate
When we say “free”... … as in ”speech”, not as in ”beer”
Just because it's free (as in beer) It doesn't mean software companies (or you) can't make money from it
Audience Participation Time Tell us a little about yourselves...
Why not use F/OSS now? Fear Of Change
Guess what Users deal with change all the time MS Office ribbon interface Mac OS Mobile devices Online apps
Things F/OSS doesn't do well (yet) Personal Finance Video Editing Project Management GIS CAD Medical Sector
Things F/OSS does really well (so far) The Internet Databases Lots of other stuff
Strengths in general Security (maybe also a weakness?) Consistency Open data No vendor lock-in YOU decide what is best
Desktop Applications: Office Productivity Word/Excel/PPT/Publisher Adobe Acrobat Pro Publisher/InDesign PDF Creator Scribus AbiWordGnumeric Libre/OpenOffice
Desktop Applications: Internet – Web Browsers Internet Explorer Safari Firefox Google Chrome Opera
Desktop Applications: Internet – Clients Outlook Mail.app Thunderbird Evolution Claws
Desktop Applications: Graphics The GIMP Inkscape Photoshop Illustrator
Desktop Applications: Other BansheeAmarokSongbird ShotwellF-Spot digiK am 3D Rendering Media Management Photo Management
Desktop Applications = The Cloud TM
Enterprise Applications: Outward Facing LAMP Stack A pache M ySQL/Postgres P HP/Python/Perl L inux
Enterprise Applications: Your Users Digital Signage Ditigal Asset Mgmt Video Conferencin g
Enterprise Applications: You Monitoring Helpdesk Ticketing
Enterprise Applications: Other High Performance Computing (clusters) The Cloud ™
The Bottom Line F/OSS means choice
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