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Cases @ OSS Central launched
I am proud to announce that a new subproject of OSS Central is available to the public. Cases @ OSS Central is a collection of cases targeting the implementation of enterprise open source software.
It currently offers a list of case studies grouped by
- industry
- country
- application system category
- product
with detailed information for each case and the companies involved in the case. Both will help you to find the right software or partner for your needs.
A broad audience will benefit from Cases @ OSS Central:
- People interested in getting to know how much progress has been made in the area of OS business applications.
- People who want to know if OSS is ready for the enterprise.
- Companies who would like to get a market overview on enterprise OSS.
- Companies who would like to implement a specific OS product and need a service provider.
- Service providers who would like to market their services by adding case studies about their services.
- OS software companies who would like to market their product by adding case studies.
New cases will be added continously and a whole bunch of new features is planned for the next months. If you would like to be informed about new releases just subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog. Cases @ OSS Central also offers RSS feeds for new cases.
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Travelling the Road to Enterprise Open Source: OSS Central kicks off
Food for thought on OS BI, CRM and ERP – that’s the motto of OSS Central. In the last years I did a lot of research in the area of enterpise open source software (OSS). Commonly, OSS is associated with well-known projects like the Apache HTTP Server, the Linux operating system and the productivity suite OpenOffice. Less known are projects in the area of Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This kind of software depends heavily on business logic which is modelled in the software. It takes longer to implement such systems because you need experts who are rare. As a consequence, the list of available software is relatively short. Nevertheless, many projects are worth a closer look. They are already in use by companies around the world and in many cases gained a lot of venture capital. This shows their increasing importance and leads to interesting questions which I would like to address with this website project:
- Can enterprise OSS replace well-established commercial software?
- Is enterprise OSS innovative or just copying the functionality of commercial software? How much behind or ahead is OSS?
- Which business models are behind enterprise OSS?
- Which challenges are users facing when they adopt enterprise OSS?
- What is the real advantage of using enterprise OSS? How much benefit in terms of costs can be gained?
- How can the adoption of enterprise OSS be measured?
- How can enterprise OSS be selected and evaluated?
- Is it possible to run a whole company only with OSS?
In my upcoming articles I will present my own ideas as well as interesting research and articles of others, targetting the interested public as well as corporate decision makers and the OSS community. If you would like to contribute please let me know.
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