I’m Completely Stoked With the State of Open Source Software
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved Linux and JBoss AS, but today I got sidetracked doing some surfing, and I discovered that I can basically start up a big company, and have the following software already available and ready to go and not invest a single cent:
CRM (SugarCRM), Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL), operating system (choose your favourite Linux distro), Enterprise Service Bus (Mulesource), CMS (Alfresco), Business Process Management (Intalio), JEE Application Server (JBoss), Portal (Liferay), Enterprise wide monitoring (Hyperic) and the list goes on and on and on!
Can anybody explain to me why we still have big enterprise companies reinventing the wheel on a daily basis by writing these products because they need a custom feature or two, or that they can’t embrace OSS because “Who is going to support us if it goes down”?
There’s clearly a whole new world unfolding right underneath our noses and we have to warm up to it and start taking notice of it, because it already has and will continue to change the IT landscape for the better.
To the the open source community – I salute you, and thank you for the countless hours of effort you pour into it for no/limited financial gains – may we all learn something from this collective effort.
