Pssst ... Have I Got a Licensing Deal for You! Sound Too Good to Be True? It Probably Is. | "The open source software movement is clearly in the midst of changing the entire landscape of the commercial software market." -- Jason R. Matthews, Guest Editor Opening Statement Jason R. Matthews Penguins Stampeding the Enterprise Gerald S. Greenberg Open Source Java: Fortune 500 Systems at Two-Guys-in-a-Garage Prices Ganesh Prasad Come Together, Right Now:Eclipse and Open Development Tools Integration Marc R. Erickson Making Open Source Make Money Luke Hohmann and Michael Olson Intellectual Property and Open Source: Copyright, Copyleft, and Other Issues for the User Community William A. Zucker | |
Next IssueIT Metrics and Benchmarking: So many ideas and so little success!Guest Editor: David Garmus In the face of heightened scrutiny of executive management, every IT organization is under extreme pressure to justify its budget and quantify its ROI. Next month, David Garmus moderates the struggles of IT professionals to that end. For every IT professional looking to parlay good metrics and benchmarking ideas into fact-based business measurements, next month's issue of the Cutter IT Journal [ Back to Top ] |
Is open source just a "community of hackers" and a passing fad, or is it a fundamental paradigm shift in how software will be developed in the future? How will topics like intellectual property rights, project and process management, and technical support issues fit into the open source puzzle? Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jason Matthews and a cadre of distinguished contributors take on open source to help you decide if broad adoption of this emerging "darling of the IT industry" is imminent or even likely.