Six Barriers to Open Source Adoption

securitas writes "ZDNet/CNet's Dan Farber describes the six barriers to enterprise open source software adoption. Briefly, the reasons are 1) Lack of formal support, 2) Speed of change (not 'velocity'), 3) Lack of roadmap, 4) Functional gaps, 5) Licensing caveats and 6) ISV endorsements. The article makes an interesting counterpoint to Marc Andreessen's 12 reasons for open source adoption."

Comments

Whats wrong here?

[Anonymous Coward]

For as much crap that OSNews posts, a good portion of their articles find their way onto Slashdot, 2-3 days later. I remember when most of what I read on Slashdot was newsworthy. However, one to two articles a day I notice here are yesterdays news.

Re:Left off item #7

[illuminata]

Wow, when I saw this terrible post, I thought that I was going to bust a valve! How can somebody think this way?! Well, for the sake of trying to show you the light, I'll try to calm down...

I think you're totally wrong. By not only giving away Linux for free, but its source as well, we think that it's only a small request that you join our cult. It's not right that people take without giving back to the community. But by joining, you are indeed making a difference to further our cause. Posting our views loudly on internet discussions, with Slashdot being a favorite place to post, ensures that we indeed get noticed and that we gain members to further our cause.

Besides, why wouldn't you want to drink the Kool-Aid when it's so very sweet :) :) :)

prisoner-of-enigma, we would love to have you join us sometime. We're a very loving, sexually free group of people. We'd love to have you join us! Remember, you're not one of us if you don't join and share our views.

Hope to have you hop on the FOSS choo-choo train! All aboard!

-RMS

P.S. Call me, you can come to my ranch and see what being open is all about ;)

What is Open Sores? +1, Patriotic

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, dudez:

Is there a Linux For Dummies ?

Thanks in advance,
K. Trout

Roadmap

[Greyfox]

Funny, it's my experience that Microsoft releases their blue-sky roadmap on future products years in advance of those products being released, and the products usually have less than half the features the blue-sky said they would.

Maybe from now on every OSS project should release a similar blue-sky about what their project will do in 5 years. For example "Gimp 6.0 will not only edit your images for you without you having to do anything at all, it'll also clean your toilets and bring you breakfast in the morning!"

Re:which

[Anonymous Coward]

where mfg's, of course, stands for mutha-fuckin' goats.

Re:Mod post down! It's total flamebait and lies!

[Anonymous Coward]

How the fuck did this guy get moderated interesting?

Look at the screenshots! Do they look ugly to you?

Oh, yeah, let's pick a single example and extrapolate that on entire OS and applications family. Why don't you pick Fetchmail screenshots under Gnome, no?

Windows installers are NOT just double click, click next! Oh no! Get out your instruction manuals and jewl cases and get ready to enter that 50 digit serial number.

A Windows installer is an MSI file, dumbass. It comes either on a CD or from the Internet. The general schema is as follows: Welcome -> Where to install it -> Special Options -> Install -> Done. The special options can be skipped if the user wants everything to be by default.

Linux has a GUI for everything

Ok, set up a virtual host on Apache or read the data off USB flash reader with no command line on your favorite distro.