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From the Blogosphere Open Source: Lovers, Haters, and How the Cloud Blurs the Lines
How the cloud is making users ask, "Open source or commercial software... does it matter?"
By: Ryan Hughes
Sep. 17, 2011 04:45 PM
This week in Denver legions of GIS professionals and developers (or geo-geeks as most of us prefer to be called) are gathering for the FOSS4G conference... A conference solely focused on one aspect of geospatial and mapping applications: that of the open source variety.
If you talk to the average software user, geospatial or not, about open source software you usually find three camps: Lovers, Haters, and Converters. Let's put these camps in crudely defined boxes:
Open source "Lovers" are the lifers that live, breathe, and have never used anything but open source software. Lovers shun the ideals and smirk at the drones flocking to suckling off the teat of the well-polished commercial vendor. Lovers have a solution-building personality. They do not want to rely on others to solve their problems. They are not concerned with policies and procedures, rather just on getting the job done.
"Haters" like to manage and pay other parties solve their problems. Haters buy, rarely build. They like to create reports, make ROI charts, get a certificate for completion of formal five-day training on commercial company X's latest software release. They like to talk and argue about licensing and how it's all way too expensive. Haters listen to and quote FUD like "open source is not enterprise because it's not supported"... And "who is going to fix it when it breaks?" All of which points back to the original point, which is Haters buy and rely on others.
"Converters" are between the two camps and have usually been exposed to the successes and failures of both open source and commercial software implementations. Converters are open minded enough to be interested and understand the concepts of open source, but they usually don't have their management's approval to deploy open source into production or the open (e.g., Linux, Apache, Etc.) skill set to fully participate in the community development activities. Some are only truly interested in open source because they cannot afford the commercial solution that solves their problem. Most, if not all converters are moving from commercial toward open source, not vice-versa. Converters list the barriers of conversion to be: "it's hard to install and get started" and "whom do I turn to if I have a problem?" as their most common issues.
Now that we have the legions defined, it's interesting to look deeper into the Haters' and Converters'mentality and see if recent innovations in the IT industry, namely Cloud Computing, can put to bed some of their fears and barriers regarding open source and re-introduce it into their mindset as a viable enterprise option.
First, I am not proclaiming there is anything wrong with the Hater mentality. In fact, if measured by volume up until this point in history, many more successful empires in both software and consulting have been built on the commercial software tripod of buy, implement, train (repeat) than the open source mantra. However, the landscape of software is changing and customers are demanding that "traditional" models quickly become legacy and that vendors give them more flexible options to deploy software where and how they want (e.g., on the cloud, single-tenant SaaS, internal -use PaaS).
As users demand this flexibility in the way they deploy both commercial and open source technology, the Cloud Service Provider's ancillary role to the development process of open source software, which includes value-add services like application packaging, instant deployment, upgrade/migration, and help desk services, starts to alleviate some of the fears and hesitancies regarding open source software possessed by the Haters and the Converters.
For example and specific to the geospatial industry, Skygone templates the installations of open source (and commercial) mapping applications and readies them for instant deployment on a collection of different OS's like CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora and even Windows in some cases. These application and OS templates are all sitting on different IaaS cloud providers, including; Skygone's own cloud powered by CA AppLogic, Amazon Web Services, and OpenStack. These services offer not only convenience to end users, but also lower risk due to true vendor neutrality and portability at not just the software vendor level, but also their cloud infrastructure provider as well.
Meaning, oddly enough, because of the Cloud, the lines are starting to blur and grey between commercial and open source software... Making users ask, "Does it really matter anymore which I choose as long as it solves my problem?"
About Ryan Hughes Ryan Hughes is the CEO of Skygone Inc.(www.skygoneinc.com), a Cloud Computing solution provider. He is a GIS mapping enthusiast with a BS in GIS from Bowling Green State University and an MBA in Project Management from Penn State University. Ryan currently has 8+ years in Enterprise-level IT Program Management and Operations Management, as well as vast experience in Enterprise System Design and Cloud implementation methodology.
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The World's Most Influential Blogs By Udayan Banerjee If you have been following me regularly then you would know that I maintain that charges for cloud services are not coming down in proportion to the routine reduction of hardware cost. So, let us examine in Amazon has reversed the trend with its latest announcement of price reduction. On 6th March, ... Apr. 16, 2012 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,198 | Beyond the Walls of the Enterprise By Dustin Amrhein Most in IT understand that mobile applications are unique. In terms of development, delivery, and management things just are not quite the same as compared to your typical enterprise application. There are many reasons for these differences including new and different programming models and language... Apr. 16, 2012 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 901 | Architecting for the Cloud Using Amazon Web Services By Jonathan Gershater Using Amazon web services for elasticity and scale to build cloud applications.
Traditional IT environments that are built using physical servers can only scale and grow by buying new hardware and software and taking time to install and rack the hardware, configure the software and the application.... Apr. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 | By Cloud Ventures A cute idea that popped into my head that effectively describes the main dynamic of the change occuring within the IT world, is the “small Big Data centre”, ie. The data centre is increasingly becoming Big Data oriented, not just in terms of reading data from apps like Hadoop, but of app... Apr. 15, 2012 08:14 PM EDT Reads: 384 | Freedom vs. Control By Peter Silva No sooner had I posted BYOD–The Hottest Trend or Just the Hottest Term, last week than yet another BYOD survey hit the news. The full results will be released in a webinar tomorrow but SANS announced their First Annual Survey Results on Mobility Security. Last December, SANS launched its first ev... Apr. 13, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 690 | The HTTP 2.0 War Has Just Begun By Lori MacVittie RFC 1945 – “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0” – was published in May 1996. In June of 1999, RFC 2616 – “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1” was published. In the ensuing 13 years there has been no substantial changes to the HTTP standard. None. Nada. Zilch.
Even as the size and number o... Apr. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 | By App Man As data has grown exponentially at many sites, companies have been forced to horizontally scale their data. Some have turned to sharding of databases like Postrres or MySQL , while others have switched to newer NoSQL data systems. There have been many debates in the last few years about SQL vs. No... Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 874 | By Cloud Ventures A recent article “Put Your Test Lab In The Cloud” outlined the pros, cons and considerations you must take into account when talking about hosting test labs in the cloud. Using the cloud for this purpose is not necessarily a new idea, and it’s one that certainly makes a lot of sense; Replication of ... Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,114 | Part 2: PureSystems, Something Old, Something New, Something from Big Blue By Greg Schulz So what is IBM PureApplication System?
This builds off and on PureFlex systems as a foundation for deploying various software stacks to deliver traditional IT applications or cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) and Application as a Service (AaaS) models. For example c... Apr. 12, 2012 09:01 PM EDT Reads: 777 | By Jonathan Gershater High Availability and Fault Tolerance – the requirement that a computer application be seemlessly available to users without interruption, literally “no (or very little) fault will be tolerated”. In simple speak, this means that I am able to use a computer application even though in the background t... Apr. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 982 |
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