open sourceadoption prajod.wso2.v3
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Open Source Adoption in the
Enterprise
by
Prajod Vettiyattil
Lead Architect
Wipro Technologies
DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in this presentation are the views of the
speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wipro
Technologies Ltd.
Agenda
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What is Open Source?
Why use Open Source?
How to adopt?
Who are involved?
Where to use?
WHAT
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Open Source
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“Open Source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form” - Wikipedia
Closed Source and pay for use
• Up front cost : Pay for purchase
• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance and support
Open Source and free for use
• Up front cost: None
• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance and support
What Why How Where Who
Open Source and Closed Source: Expenditure
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Expenditure
Area
Open Source Closed Source
CAPEX -NA- Acquisition
OPEX
Consulting Consulting
Support Support
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What Why How Where Who
WHY
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Why use Open source ?
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Market momentum
Economic Pressures
Flexible Cost Model
Cloud Migration and Alignment
Choice of Support vendors
Innovation from wider community
More control over software
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What Why How Where Who
HOW
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Challenges to adoption
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Support
IP Risk
Internal Resistance
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What Why How Where Who
The support options
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SLA based support
Consulting
Flexible support models
Competing vendors
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What Why How Where Who
Handling IP Risks
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Open Source Usage Policy
Contract with support vendors
Governance team
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What Why How Where Who
Handling Internal Resistance
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Address Concerns
• Opportunity related• Control related• Product Capability related
Training
• Vendor supported• Internally driven
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What Why How Where Who
WHERE
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Where to use Open Source ?
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What Why How Where Who
Product driven decision• Popular product• Internal acceptance• Skills are available
Analysis driven decision• Business requirements• Product availability• Vendor availability• Product capability • Skill availability
Where is Open Source being used ?
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Operating Systems• Linux
Development Environment• CVS, Eclipse
CRM• Sugar CRM, OpenCRX
ESB• WSO2, Mule, ServiceMix
Web servers• Apache, Tomcat
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What Why How Where Who
For solutions moving to the Cloud
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Cloud readiness
• Deployable on the Cloud
• Open Source Vendor’s Cloud
• Many cloud platforms on Open Source
• Elastic Pricing Models
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What Why How Where Who
WHO?
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Who are involved?
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Open source community
Support vendors
Software service providers
Closed source providers
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What Why How Where Who
Leading the adoption
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Securities
Insurance
Energy
Healthcare
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What Why How Where Who
EPILOGUE
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Going forward
Awareness of the changing Open Source landscape
Cloud Adoption among organizations
Economic Cycles
Completeness of Software Stacks
Choice among support vendors
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Opportunity
• Good Traction• Customer pull
Drivers
• SLA based support• Maturing Business Model• Economic Pressures
Momentum
• Software Vendors• Service Providers
Closing comments
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Questions
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