Open Source Adoption in the Enterprise

byPrajod VettiyattilLead ArchitectWipro Technologies

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed in this presentation are the views of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wipro Technologies Ltd.

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Agenda

What is Open Source?Why use Open Source?How to adopt?

Who are involved?Where to use?

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WHAT

Open Source

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“Open Source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form” - Wikipedia

Closed Source and pay for use

• Up front cost : Pay for purchase

• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance and support

Open Source and free for use

•Up front cost: None

• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance and support

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Open Source and Closed Source: Expenditure

Expenditure Area

Open Source Closed Source

CAPEX -NA- Acquisition

OPEXConsulting Consulting

Support Support

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WHY

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Why use Open source ? Market momentum Economic Pressures Flexible Cost Model Cloud Migration and Alignment Choice of Support vendors Innovation from wider community More control over software

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HOW

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Challenges to adoption

Support IP Risk Internal Resistance

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The support options

SLA based support Consulting Flexible support models Competing vendors

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Handling IP Risks

Open Source Usage Policy

Contract with support vendors

Governance team

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Handling Internal Resistance

Address Concerns

• Opportunity related• Control related• Product Capability related

Training

• Vendor supported• Internally driven

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WHERE

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Where to use Open Source ?

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Product driven decision• Popular product• Internal acceptance• Skills are available

Analysis driven decision• Business requirements• Product availability• Vendor availability• Product capability • Skill availability

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Where is Open Source being used ? Operating Systems• Linux

Development Environment• CVS, Eclipse

CRM• Sugar CRM, OpenCRX

ESB• WSO2, Mule, ServiceMix

Web servers• Apache, Tomcat 16

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For solutions moving to the Cloud

Cloud readiness• Deployable on the Cloud

• Open Source Vendor’s Cloud

• Many cloud platforms on Open Source

• Elastic Pricing Models

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WHO?

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Who are involved?

Open source community Support vendors Software service providers Closed source providers

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Leading the adoption

Securities Insurance Energy Healthcare

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EPILOGUE

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Going forward

Awareness of the changing Open Source landscape

Cloud Adoption among organizations

Economic Cycles Completeness of Software

Stacks Choice among support

vendors

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Opportunity• Good Traction• Customer pull

Drivers• SLA based support• Maturing Business Model• Economic Pressures

Momentum• Software Vendors• Service Providers

Closing comments

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Questions

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THANK YOUprajod.vettiyattil@wipro.com