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Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
Would you buyan open-sourcecompany?
Senior Developer, Adobe Digital Enterprise Systems, www.day.comApache So!ware Foundation Member and (current) Directorh"p://grep.codeconsult.ch - twi"er: @bdelacretaz - [email protected]
transfersummit.com, Oxford, September 2011
slides revision: 2011-09-05
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Bertrand Delacrétaz
Based on the Day Software story, as perceived from my open source developer point of view.Just a fireside chat, my personal opinions. No official positions from Adobe in this talk.
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
does open source software have any
value?
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?3
How much?
ohloh.net
$4’348’937
$2’544’831
download.apache.org
$0.0
$7’625’474
$0.0
$0.0
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
Stock market? DAYN?
p o w e r e d b y
Not the Absolute Truth of course, but still...
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
what’s open source software’s
role?
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
Day was not really an «open source company»,
it was
a so!ware company which develops its technical
stack in the open, collaboratively.
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OSGi framework(Apache Felix)
JCRrepository
javascript
JSPRuby
Velocityetc..
debugger
WebDAVserver
Sling OSGiconsole
browserfilesystem
JSR-170 API
resource resolution
JSR 223 scripting
servlet/script resolution
standardservlets
storagecomponents
custom servletsand components
content administration UI
HTTP
open sourceat its core
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
criticalityof our open source core parts
(based on the scienti!c «!nger in the air» method)
15%25%50%
90%
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
So, anyone can copy this!
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NOT!
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
the company does have some
know-how
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
Day’s R&D team(highlights)
Roy T. Fielding and David Nuescheler,“Mr. REST” and “Mr. JCR”
Thomas Mülleroriginal author
Hypersonic SQL and H2 databases
Carsten Ziegeler, Felix Meschberger, Jukka Zitting
VPs, Apache Excalibur, Sling and Jackrabbit
(among other fun things)
and quite a few other peopleof this caliber...
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Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
we’re not bad, but still,
more eyeballsfrom more places
help a lot!«crowdsourcing neurons»
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Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
BTW:
being spec lead for JCR also helps
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open sourceopen development
open standards
Expert Group:
JSR-170 JSR-283
Content Repository for JavaTM technology API v2.0Spec-Lead:Day SoftwareStatus: Final Release 14-sept-2009
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
open source is cool, but
opendevelopment?
open development
collaboration
meritocracyconsensus
quality and securitycommunity over code
«The Apache Way»
impact on quality:very high!
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more eyeballs
more use cases
more users of all kinds
more opinionated developers
impact on structure:very high!
reuse requires cleaner structures
more use cases -> generalization
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impact on reputation:high!
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impact on sustainability: high!
Apache community best practices...
Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
FOR SALE: This company makes good money selling w e l l - s t r u c t u r e d a n d s u s t a i n a b l e q u a l i t y s o f t w a r e . T e a m a n d company have an excellent reputation in their industry. Call 1234-567-89.
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Would you Buyan Open Source Company?
ConclusionsOpen source bits are free, but making them open source promotes Quality.A team that integrates them to form a coherent product can have tremendous value.Besides open source, open development, and the collaboration best practices that it promotes, plays a key role.
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Copyright (C) 2011, Bertrand Delacretaz