In Open Source for the Enterprise, I argue that to make effective use of open source, companies must close the productization gap, that is, the lack of documentation, installation, administration tools, and support in most open source.
"Sun is doing more and more with being a provider of open source in this enterprise infrastructure space, " says Raven Zachary, an open-source analyst at 451 Group.
The company hopes to entice enterprise network managers to use more open source applications by offering professional-level support for open source systems, beyond Internet-based user groups and the open source community.
The SUSE Linux enterprise computing platform allows for high interoperability between open source and proprietary systems.
This space is a cooperative battleground between the commercial open source world of Hadoop and the enterprise vendors such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, HP Vertica, IBM Neteeza, and many others.
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The largest of the commercial open source application companies like Alfresco, the enterprise content management vendor, are smaller than that.
The company is built on a two-year open source project called ActiveMQ, which allows for enterprise-level secure messaging.
The question is, are open source clouds ready for the demands of the enterprise, in terms of scalability and availability?
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
Stitch Google SA to Autonomy and a couple of open source acquisitions and you have a powerful well structured force across the enterprise and small business markets.
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According to many tech pundits, Eucalyptus is one of a handful of emerging open source companies that has a legitimate shot at becoming a billion dollar enterprise.
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