oss in a corporate environment

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Open Source Software in a Corporate Environment September 2011

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Overview

• Four aspects• Creating structure• Extra: Case Study Symas

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FOUR ASPECTS OF OSS INTEGRATION

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The Four aspects

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Financial Technical

Legal Marketing

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BenefitsInitial costsLicensingMaintenance?End of lifeConcentration on Business Domain

RisksSupport contractsCopyright/leftRisk to customers

BenefitsMostly readyStandardsKnowhow“Many eyeballs”TestedFast Turnover

RisksQuality?Release TimingCR, bug acceptanceToo general

RisksViral EffectLicenses may be unclear Intellectual PropertyLicense incompatibility

BenefitsCompany ImageInteraction with other partiesConcentration on Business domain

RisksManage Customer

Financial Technical

Legal Marketing

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CREATING STRUCTURE

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OSS Decision Maker

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• Authority to reject/accept

• Gets legal guidance• Notifies Product

management/Sales

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Isolating the OSS in Layers

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Core Platform

Distribution Layer

HW/CLOUD

Product 1 Product 2 Product 3

Component 1 Component 2

Business Domain

Platform

OSS

Third Party

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Distribution Layer Risks

Risks

• Updating Between Product Releases

Mitigation

• Backwards Compatibility

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• Community Development

• Central Design Authority

• Product Wide Heart Beat

• Contract OS Support

• Resource Management

• Aligning releases

• Fragmented Architecture

• Providing Support

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RisksSupport contractsCopyright/leftRisk to customers

RisksQuality?Release TimingCR, bug acceptanceToo general

RisksViral EffectLicenses may be unclear Intellectual PropertyLicense incompatibility

RisksManage Customer

Financial Technical

Legal Marketing

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COLLABORATION

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Third part Case Study: Symas

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• Corporate LDAP requirements

– Replication stability

– Write performance

• High availability

• On a single site and across sites

– Read performance scaling

– No manual actions during site failover

• Full and Fast Replication stability is the only requirement that the current OpenLDAP solution is not able to provide

DomainDomain

Product XProduct Y

High available write capability

Scalable readcapability

Scalable readcapability

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Third Party

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Summary

• Four aspects• Creating structure• Case Study: Symas

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Q/A

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