The Open Source Business Conference 2009 brought together senior business leaders, C-level technical strategists, lawyers, and venture capitalists to collaborate on emerging business models, strategies, and profitability for open source software use (March 24-25, 2009 in San Francisco).
Best of Breed Software
Open source software is not the answer to every question. Neither is proprietary software. Most mission-critical
deployments can benefit from leveraging both but… how do you identify when to use one or the other? This session
describes the blueprint that the author used at a few large public companies for building their mission-critical
systems. It’ll cover the selection process, the open-source communities, participation in the project, and how to
get support from the same open-source team that built the project in the first place. Learn how to spend about of the
30% total (including support and consulting!) of what you’d otherwise spend in a commercially driven software
deployment.
Best of Breed Software (PDF) - 2.3 MB
