The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: August 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781411611467
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; General; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computers / General
First sentence: Another trend that makes open source software attractive is increasing awareness of being trapped by vendors with proprietary software.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: iii; title: Preface
pagenum: viii; title: Forward
pagenum: ix; label: Section I
pagenum: 1
title: Finding Practical Uses for Open Source Software; label: 1
pagenum: 3
title: Why Open Source is Important Today; label: 2
pagenum: 19
title: Proof of Concept: Case Studies; label: 3
pagenum: 51
title: Discovering Your Migration Candidates; label: 4
pagenum: 71
title: Discovering Your Savings; label: Section II
pagenum: 99
title: Established Open Source Software; label: 5
pagenum: 101
title: Linux Distributions; label: 6
pagenum: 117
title: Proven Server-side Applications; label: 7
pagenum: 145
title: Proven Desktop Applications; label: 8
pagenum: 167
title: Maintaining Platform-independent In-house Code; label: Section III
pagenum: 185
title: Moving Forward; label: 9
pagenum: 187
title: Keeping Current on Open Source Developments; label: 10
pagenum: 203
title: The Ongoing Economics of Open Source; title: Index
pagenum: 217