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(0 vote)Article Source: Conecta Date: January 2008
FLOSS (Free/Libre open source software) is one of the most important trends in IT since the advent of the PC and commodity software, but despite the potential impact on European firms, its adoption is still hampered by limited knowledge, especially among SMEs that could potentially benefit the most from it.
This guide (developed in the context of the FLOSSMETRICS and OpenTTT projects) present a set of guidelines and suggestions for the adoption of open source software within SMEs, using a ladder model that will guide companies from the initial selection and adoption of FLOSS within the IT infrastructure up to the creation of suitable business models based on open source software.
The guide is split into an 80 pages introduction to FLOSS and a catalog of 165 applications, selected to fulfill the requests that were gathered in the interviews and audit in the OpenTTT project. The application areas are infrastructural software (ranging from network and system management to security), ERP and CRM applications, groupware, document management, content management systems (
CMS), VoIP, graphics/CAD/GIS systems, desktop applications, engineering and manufacturing, vertical business applications and eLearning.
This is the first edition of the guide, with new versions expected every six months. The guide is distributed under a CC-attribution-sharealike license; the author is Carlo Daffara (Spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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). I would like to thank Roberto Galoppini for the many suggestions and research ideas, Pamela Jones and all the GrokLaw readers that provided suggestions, corrections and criticism for part of the text.
The two pdfs are:
FLOSS guide (80 pages, 2Mbytes PDF)
FLOSS catalog (94 pages, warning!! 20Mbytes PDF!)
Conecta was born in 1995 with a specific focus on libre/free open source software.
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