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 | | Open Solutions Alliance | January 2008 |
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| Mainstream Adoption a Blessing or Curse?
Over the past few weeks, the OSA has published two reports that point to an industry in transition -- a Customer Forum Summary report and a CEO Predictions 2008 report. According to Dominic Sartorio, these reports paint a broad picture of sometimes bumpy, somestimes smooth road to open source solutions in 2008. |  |
| Open Innovation
OpenIT Works CEO Mike Grove showcases two results of the Open Solutions Project -- a negotiation between two member CIOs over a solution to a shortcoming in SAP, and a business school CIO finding a way to convince suppliers to act as "second sources" -- to show that the principles of open source software development apply to innovation in general. |  |
| The Coming Open Source Wave
OSA Alert Member Interview
"This is the year when open source is really going to step up," according to Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource. Integration between open source and proprietary software is real and happening, but true interoperability continues to be a challenge. |  |
| | Copyright 2008. OSA Alert is published by the Open Solutions Alliance. Please contact the editor, Mike Takamoto, with your questions, comments and reprint requests. |
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