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New OSS Doomed In Enterprise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-kill-the-penguin dept.

Rob wrote to mention a Computer Business Review Online article which posits that immature open source software is doomed in an enterprise environment nowadays. From the article: "Open-source startups and relative newcomers must target a new breed of CIOs, which Graf dubs chief process innovation officers. Rather than old-school CIOs who focus on a company's data management, these guys design processes with the company's network. "If you want to become strategic to the company, you need to deal with business processors. 'The key question for open source is, Which open source technologies are mature enough to survive the consolidation that's coming?' Graf said. 'Linux? Definitely. Eclipse? Definitely. Mozilla? Most likely.'"

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  1. Maybe true for use in "production environments"... by Richard+Steiner · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...but that doesn't mean immature but stable/useful FOSS won't be valued (and isn't valued) for testing, for development, and for other things which are not directly related to production applications or servers.

    We've been using FOSS software in our mainframe environment for years for everything from text editing to file management to compiler pre-processing, and I really don't see that changing.

    --
    Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
    The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
  2. OSS = Operation Support System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please use full name when referring to this acronym. Except for Linux-fans, many business people know this acronym as Operation Support System providing inventory, management, support, planning and other processes within a company.
    There's already enough confusion out there.

    It's also the official stance of the real engineers:
    http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/oss/

    Similar thing with PSP - is it a gaming device, or a graphical application?