Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel

Innovation Happens Elsewhere

Open Source as Business Strategy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects. In this book the authors present lessons learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.

_ Winner of 2006 Jolt Productivity Award for General Books
_ Describes how open source development works and offers persuasive reasons for using it to help achieve business goals.
_ Shows how to use open source in day-to-day work, discusses the various licenses in use, and describes what makes for a successful project.
_ Written in an engaging style for executives, managers, and engineers that addresses the human and business issues involved in open source development as well as its history, philosophy, and future

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Morgan Kaufmann
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 13043528
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 197mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1008g
• ISBN-13: 9781558608894
• ISBN-10: 1558608893
• Artikelnr.: 13043528

Autorenporträt

Ron Goldman is a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in California working on alternative software development methodologies and new software architectures inspired by biology. He has been working with open source since hacking on GDB at Lucid, Inc. back in 1992. Since 1998 he has been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around their open source projects. Prior to Sun he developed a program to generate and manipulate visual representations of complex data for use by social scientists as part of a collaboration between NYNEX Science & Technology and the Institute for Research on Learning. He has worked on programming language design, programming environments, user interface design, and data visualization. He has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University where he was a member of the robotics group.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Innovation Happens Elsewhere; What is Open Source?; Why Consider Open Source?; Licenses; How to Do Open Source Development; Going with Open Source; How to Build Momentum; What to Avoid-Known Problems and Failures; Closing Thoughts; Appendix A: Resources; B: Licenses; C: Contributor Agreements; D: Article from XML.com

Rezensionen

"Innovation Happens Elsewhere is at least as important for those who have no interest in software as those who do, because in the details of the history and practice of the open source community lie clues to the institutional adaptations of the information economy; in the clauses of the various software licenses lie the case law that will come to define property in the information age. There are other books that have a great deal to say about this evolution, but none combines the personal experience and inside-out insight to be gained from the engagement of Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel in so many flesh-and-blood open source projects and the development of the structures that have supported them."?from the foreword by Chris Meyer, Monitor Group