{"id":409,"date":"2002-09-24T23:22:25","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=409"},"modified":"2002-09-24T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2002-09-25T04:22:25","slug":"open-source-closed-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/09\/24\/open-source-closed-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source, Closed Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pitching web collaboration via Open Source tools lately.  I&#8217;m trying to generate interest in having people contract me in to supply them with a working Open Source based collaboration portal and to provide advice and development in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I&#8217;m demoing to companies a full-featured Open Source based intranet site with news items, comments, forums, downloads, weblinks, etc and comparing its features to more extensive (and expensive) solutions such as Microsoft&#8217;s SharePoint.  A really good example of such a comparison is the <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreillynet.com\/cs\/os2002\/view\/e_sess\/2456\">case study <\/a>of the Government of Hawaii&#8217;s portal.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I was in a gigantic multinational company.  The presentation went well &#8211; they were impressed by the scope, manageability, extendability and feel of the demo site.  They liked the idea of saving bucketloads of dough.  Everything was going smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Then they remembered that the previous week they had received an internal memo declaring that Open Source software was not to be used in the company unless a commercial solution did not exist.  They&#8217;d have to review that memo and see how it affected this decision.  I&#8217;m not privy to the contents of the memo, but it sounds to me very much like Fear Uncertainty and Doubt rearing its head.<\/p>\n<p>They also said that some company-wide desktop app Microsoft licensing agreement allows them to use SharePoint portal services throughout the company, so that would mean they&#8217;ve got it &#8220;for free&#8221; too, so maybe there wouldn&#8217;t be any advantage to my suggestions.  I&#8217;m fairly doubtful that the licensing will include adding unlimited Win2k SQL servers and SharePoint servers, but I guess huge multinationals can afford to spend whatever money isn&#8217;t being looted by their executives on blanket licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pitching web collaboration via Open Source tools lately. I&#8217;m trying to generate interest in having people contract me in to supply them with a working Open Source based collaboration portal and to provide advice and development in those areas. Specifically, I&#8217;m demoing to companies a full-featured Open Source based intranet site with news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}