Enterprise Open Source

Some says Cloud computing is just a buzz and re-branding of some of the existing services. I too believe this to a certain extend. Regardless of what we think and discuss it seems that most have accepted that Cloud Computing is the next big thing and moving on creating their own clouds OR becoming a provider. Therefore I thought this might be an opportunity for us to look at why Open Source is going to be very important in this ‘Cloud Computing’ thing.

Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Yahoo be driving the force while IBM, Microsoft, HP and SAP joining the crowd. It seems that most of these players are looking at using Open Source components and methodologies in creating the clouds even Microsoft to a certain extend.

Why?

• Lower start-up costs with Open Source tool sets (e.g LINUX, Xen, Hadhoop, Apache etc are some of the tool sets used by providers today)
• Speed to market, by lowering the start-up costs anyone can join the cloud without having to invest heavily
• Opening up the client applications as complete Open Source products, e.g: Goolge Android)
• Allowing community to build what they want and use the cloud infrastructure, this extend what one company can do

We all know that Open Source was a disruptive development and business model. If the cloud computing to accelerate and innovate I believe Open Source needs to pay a key role in all areas of the Cloud.

After all ‘Clouds are FREE’ no one person owns them, and yes it is above us all.

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Recently I had a very interesting discussion with a senior executive in the US on Open Source business models. Yes time permitting I am planning to publish what we have discussed and what our views on them. I must apologise that it is almost about 3 weeks since we had the discussion and I didn’t get the chance to publish the discussion.

I am also happy to hear from others and possibly even create a Skype cast to have an informal discussion on open source business models and what their views are? If you are interested please get in touch with me via linkedin or kanchana at fossmart.net so that we can sort-out a time to discuss.

This is an open question to the Enterprise Open Source community, which Enterprise Open Source applications/solutions do you think will take the lead in the next 12 months?

Reasonably good candidates:

CRM: Sugarcrm
ERP: OpenBravo and Compiere
BI: Pentaho and JasperIntelligence
ECM: Alfresco
Collaboration: ???
Messaging & Communication: Zimbra, Scalix, and OBM

Looking forward for your comments.

Kanchana Wickremasinghe, FOSSMART Pty Ltd.

Dear All,

Many thanks for the interest in the group so far. I am already talking to like minded Open Source people, who are happy to contribute, discuss, write blogs etc. This is great stuff. Yes there is still a quite a bit of work I need to get done including creating a logo for the group. Our graphics designer is on to it. I will share with the current members of the group before making it formal :-).

I am sure we will get there and have a great blog about Enterprise Open Source !!

Thanks again for the Support.

kindest regards,

Kanchana

FOSSMART is going to dedicate this blog to discuss Enterprise Open Source stuff.

We are inviting members from Linkedin and other professional groups to join and discuss Enterprise Open Source matters.

Welcome to FOSSMART’s web blog. We have decided that we are going to be using WordPress as our blogging tool and now we have a fully functional web blog. From now onwards you will see our web blogs in this space !