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Telling Technology Stories with IPython Notebook
Recording of a presentation at OSCON 2014, which provides a background and overview of a powerful bit of Open Source software: the IPython Notebook. Beyond background, I go into some of the...
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By Jack M. Germain 08/26/14 8:09 PM PT
Open source software is now a force drawing enterprises and developers like a magnet.
The factors pulling adopters into the open source fold are changing, though. Also changing are the attitudes of software developers and corporate leaders about the viability and adaptability of open source.
Open source software is increasingly important within the corporation, as a recent survey conducted by Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners found.
Developers and corporate leaders now view open source software as a strategic advantage that can help companies create more secure products with better features and functionality. This helps adopters beat the competition.
More first-time developers are using open source, the research indicates. The open source movement over the next few years will gain new industries such as education, healthcare and government. Open source software is powering some of the hottest technologies in the enterprise today, among them cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
The growing trend of open source supplanting proprietary software is not the Black Duck-North Bridge annual survey's exclusive finding. Other research bears it out.
"It is very consistent with what I see in my own developer surveys and the surveys the Eclipse organization runs on a yearly basis," said Jeffrey S. Hammond, vice president and principal analyst for application development and delivery professionals at Forrester Research.
There's been a sea change in terms of IT department and enterprise support for considering open source software first, the Black Duck-North Bridge survey found, and it is having a significant impact on proprietary software.
For example, consider Microsoft's journey over the past 10 years, suggested Hammond. Microsoft changed from labeling open source software "a cancer" to starting up Codeplex.org and integrating its products with numerous OSS projects like Linux and Git.
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Open Source Software: Sailing Into Friendlier Seas
Mozilla is hoping to build market share for its open source software in the worlds fastest growing market for such devices. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Mozilla has begun selling its first low-cost smartphone in India for 1,999 rupees ($33), in a bid to build market share for its open source software in the worlds fastest growing market for such devices.
The Cloud FX phone will run Mozillas Firefox operating system and offer games and other content through its applications store, Jane Hsu, the companys Taipei-based director of product marketing said at a New Delhi briefing yesterday. The device has 128 megabytes of RAM memory, a two- megapixel camera, and a one gigahertz processor, she said.
Mozillas inexpensive smartphone push might be its best bet for gaining users in India, where more people access the internet through smartphones than computers. Indian consumers will buy about 225 million smartphones this year, according to Brad Rees, chief executive officer of Mediacells Ltd., a London- based marketing company. The biggest barrier for feature phone users is cost and usability, Hsu said, referring to upgrading users of devices with limited Internet capability. We think this is the best phone for them.
Intex Technologies (India) Ltd., based in New Delhi, manufactured the Cloud FX smartphone that went on sale yesterday on the e-commerce site Snapdeal.com. Intex plans to sell 500,000 Mozilla phones in the next three months, company product head Sudhir Kumar said in New Delhi yesterday.
Mozilla will introduce a $38 phone later this week made by Spice Mobility Ltd., based near New Delhi. Hsu said other deals with Indian smartphone makers will be announced in coming weeks that she declined to identify.
Mozilla unveiled its operating system in July 2013 with mid-priced phones in Latin America and Europe, subsidised through local wireless carriers. Now in 15 countries, this is Mozillas first foray into Asia, said Hsu.
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EVANSTON, ILL. -- Open source software, which has become increasingly common throughout the US military from unmanned drones to desktops, has now been enlisted as a career option for military personnel. In September, Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center will open a Linux certification academy, marking the first time such a training program has been hosted on a military base.
The Mississippi installation, which is already a training hub for all branches of the military, hopes to ramp up to four to six classes, processing 50 to 75 military and civilian students per month.
The training academy will fall under the auspices of the Open Technology Center, a joint agency nonprofit research entity whose mission is to support national security objectives by facilitating the development and implementation of open source software technologies for public and private sector entities.
The academy is part of a broader effort to ramp up the IT skills of current military personnel as well as those transitioning out of the services, center director John Weathersby told InformationWeek in a phone call. Weathersby, who lives near Camp Shelby, has been a consultant on a variety of federal, military, and homeland security initiatives for nearly 15 years. "We've got to make sure people are trained, as the military is downsizing," he said, noting that the commercial sector has rapidly embraced open source, such as the Linux operating system.
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Microsoft's relationship with the open source movement has undergone an extraordinary transformation over the last few years, from a deep hostility to what can only be described as an embrace.
One specific target of its hatred was the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which much open source software is made available. "The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source," Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's ex-CEO, said erroneously in a Chicago Sun-Timesinterview back in 2001.
The open source Linux, which threatened the company's Windows Server operating systems, was another Microsoft target. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," Baller said in the same interview.
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What Microsoft is up to now was unthinkable back then. Today Microsoft is involved with open source community. It participates in open source projects. It has open sourced some of its formerly proprietary software, such as parts of its ASP.NET Web application framework, the Windows Phone toolkit and the Azure .NET software development kit. It has set up CodePlex, a free open source project hosting site.
Going one stage further, the company has established Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. (Open Tech), a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft "focused on advancing Microsoft's commitment to openness across the company and throughout the industry."
What does Microsoft mean by "openness"? "Openness is much more than just open source. It also includes interoperability and open standards," says Gianugo Rabellino, senior director of Open Source communities at Open Tech. This triumvirate of open source, open standards and interoperability is a refrain that Rabellino -- and, indeed, Microsoft -- keeps coming back to.
Software Market Changed, So Microsoft Changed, Too
The big question: Why the change? Why the complete about-face when it comes to open source software from deep hostility to open embrace?
"The market has changed," says Rabellino, saying that 2002 was very different than today. "Everyone is adapting. So is Microsoft."
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SalesAgility today announced the availability of their Software as a Service (SAAS) platform, SuiteCRM:OnDemand, that heralds the era of CRM as Commodity Computing. SuiteCRM is the fork of SugarCRM that delivers all the core SugarCRM functionality and adds workflow, reports, quotes, products, event management, contracts, reporting and six other modules. SuiteCRM is a completely open source project.
In the world of Commodity Computing, vendors no longer hold the upper hand, customers do. The SuiteCRM:OnDemand service empowers customers by giving them ownership of the entire application and database and enabling them to download both and migrate at any time.
SalesAgilitys CEO, Greg Soper, explained the thinking behind the service. Imagine a world where you had to rewire your entire office if you wanted to change electricity supplier. That's what happens with the major SAAS vendors. They deliver Commodity Computing, at very high price points, and make it very difficult and very expensive for you to leave them. SuiteCRM:OnDemand turns that concept on its head. We believe that it's your data and it's also your application. You own it, we take care of it. If you want a copy to host somewhere else or to migrate, take it, it's yours. There's no catch, no lock-in. It's simple, honest, open source.
Soper believes that CRM is now in the era of Commodity Computing. "If you Google for CRM you'll find thousands of companies offering similar products. CRM has reached a maturity point where all the major applications like SalesForce and Dynamics do the same thing. They may differ slightly in approach and look and feel but the underlying processes that are being modelled are well understood and are the same for all the platforms. What differentiates the major vendors is the quality of their sales operations.
What you're paying for is not software. It's the sales and marketing machines, the expensive advertising, the highly remunerated sales executives. It's estimated that around 80% of SalesForce's revenues goes on Sales and Marketing. That leaves 20% for product development. With open source software, the reverse is true. Most of the money goes into the software and customers can enjoy Commodity Computing at a fraction of the cost of the major vendors. Customers can also access all the source code and modify it at very reasonable costs.
SuiteCRM:OnDemand competes functionally with SalesForce Enterprise and is priced at approximately one-seventh of the cost.
SuiteCRMs client base profile spans diverse market sectors including Agriculture, Government, Manufacturing, Software Development, Distribution, Healthcare, Leisure, Real Estate, Not for Profit, Business Services, Timber & Forestry, Accountancy, Legal, Technology, Solar, Entertainment, Security and Membership/Events. Clients in these sectors include governments, large enterprises and SMBs.
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SalesAgility Ltd is an ISO 9001 accredited professional services consultancy engaged in transforming the business needs of its clients into robust and elegant CRM software solutions. SalesAgility are the authors of SuiteCRM and keepers of the vision of enterprise-class open source CRM.
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Your organization may be unintentionally biased against free software.
Ten years ago, open source advocates faced an uphill battle when they tried to implement free software in an organization, while proprietary vendors such as Microsoft spoke out publicly and fiercely against it. Barriers to implementation included worries about security, support, warranties and indemnities, and concerns that the quality of software that was freely available would be inferior to that produced on a commercial basis and licensed for a fee.
A decade later, the landscape has changed considerably. The open source model is well-established and far better understood, and a huge proportion of companies use open source software somewhere in their IT operations.
[ Tips: How to Run Your Small Business With Free Open Source Software ]
One reason is that many of the concerns have disappeared. A recent Future of Open Source Survey found that 72 percent of respondents use open source software because they believe it provides better security than proprietary alternatives, and 80 percent believe it offers better quality than proprietary software.
These survey findings correspond with the day-to-day experience of IT professionals such as Mark Winiberg, whose company, Charter Software, offers open source deployment and training. "Ten years ago, open source software was a hard sell," he says. "These days, I am simply not seeing the same level of opposition to it."
Procurement Policies Often Biased Against Open Source
That's not to say that barriers to open source software have disappeared completely. There's evidence, for example, that many organizations' software procurement policies are still designed for a world of proprietary software and therefore make open source solutions problematic to use.
Examples of this are policies dictating that any prospective vendor's financial figures be scrutinized, and that the vendor must have been in business for three years. How do you scrutinize the financials of an open source project?
Clearly, this type of policy needs updating to reflect the reality of the open source world and to prevent open source software from being effectively ruled out, says Simon Phipps, the president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a nonprofit that advocates open source software.
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In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Mark Hinkle, Senior Director, Open Source Solutions at Citrix Systems Inc., will provide overview of the open source software that can be used to deploy and manage a cloud computing environment. He will include information on storage, networking(e.g., OpenDaylight) and compute virtualization (Xen, KVM, LXC) and the orchestration(Apache CloudStack, OpenStack) of the three to build their own cloud services.
Speaker Bio: Mark Hinkle is the Senior Director, Open Source Solutions, at Citrix Systems Inc. He joined Citrix as a result of their July 2011 acquisition of Cloud.com where he was their Vice President of Community. He is currently responsible for Citrix open source efforts around the open source cloud computing platform, Apache CloudStack and the Xen Hypervisor. Previously he was the VP of Community at Zenoss Inc., a producer of the open source application, server, and network management software, where he grew the Zenoss Core project to over 100,000 users and 20,000 organizations on all seven continents. He also is a longtime open source expert and author having served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. His blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at http://www.socializedsoftware.com.
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The 15th InternationalCloud Expo has just expanded its conference program, to bring together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC at one location.
The show now has three tracks devoted exclusively to the IoT (with WebRTC present in one of the tracks), a full single track focusing on Big Data, and a two-track DevOps Summit, in addition to four tracks devoted exclusively to Cloud Computing in the enterprise.
Cloud Expo is the single show where delegates and technology vendors can meet to experience and discuss the entire world of the cloud.
With Cloud Computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to learn about the latest technology developments and solutions.
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