Seminar OnOPEN SOURCE

MOVEMENT

Presented By :- Kartik N. Kalpande.

HIGHLIGHTS TO TOPICOpenly available software movementOpenly available and accessableOpen source is different from traditional

proprietary in user and proprietary rights.Eg:-Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, Android

and OpenOffice.org.

History and Evolution History begins:

Years 1970s and early 1980s, were the root years of the movement.

Evolution: Journey from free software to open source movement. Colaaborately known in literature as “Free and Open Source”

OPEN SOURCESource CodeFree RedistributionDerived WorksNon-DiscriminatoryNon-Restrictive

WHY OPEN SOURCE?

Cost EffectivenessAvailability of Source CodeOpen Standard and Vendor independenceReduced Maintains Cost

ARCHITECTURE

APLLICATION AREAS OF OPEN SOURCE

Linux ApacheMySQLPHPMozilla Wikipedia

List of open source languages

PHPJavaPythanPerlCC++VB

List of open source database

MySQLFirebirdGNU SQL ServerHSQLDBCloudDB

List of Open Source Operating Systems

LinuxUnix UbuntuOpen Solaris

List of Open Source Servers

ZenossMonoApacheDrupal

CASE STUDIESINTERNATIONAL

SAHANASahana came into existence through the

collaborative effort of IT professionals in Sri Lanka.

Motive:- To provide relief to victims of the December 26, 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia.

Non-profit organization

NATIONALKERELA CASE STUDY

IT at School ProjectSetup in 2001 as a project of Department of

General Education Diverse activities such as content

development, infrastructure deployment, satellite based education and e-Governance are initiated.

Open source challenges

Steep learning curveRisk of discontinued community involvementNobody is really responsible in case any

problem

STRENGTHSLower costs. Open source provides flexibility. The collaborative nature of the open source

community creates software that can offer customizability which results in relevent adoption.

LIMITATIONS People should have programming

knowledge.Lack of standardization due to multiple

developers.The ultimate success has no guarantee.

CONCLUSIONThe open source movement has grown to

become a significant force in today's computing environment. In some sectors of the software industry, open source programs have become popular enough to provide real competition to proprietary alternatives; in others, they have emerged as the dominant standard. 

REFERENCEShttps//www.google.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_sourcehttp://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/

cs181/projects/open-source.htmlhttp://p2pfoundation.net/

Open_Source_Architecturehttps://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/

readings/OpenSourceOverview.htmlhttps://opensource.org/

In India open source software will have to come and stay in a big way for the benefit of our billion of people.

-Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Thank You…!!