"Dreaming Session – Predictions for IT"
by Axel Winter - Published at MIS ASIA
Transforming the Enterprise with Cloud Computing
Mar 04
By Axel Winter |
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Dries has some interesting points there on the massive uptake of Open Source in the Enterprise and as well, the introduction of cloud computing becoming a transformation agenda more than a technology change.
http://buytaert.net/open-source-in-the-enterprise-and-in-the-cloud
Take a look.
Open Source Entry into Business Applications
Mar 02
By Axel Winter |
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Just sharing some soundbites around Open Source Deployments. The usual candidates with high revenue and enterprise placements are RedHat Products (Linux and Java) and MySQL.
The adoption of business like application is also interesting. While British Telecom adoption of an open source ERP platform seem premature, I like to point out these numbers below given by the associated web sites.
For References Jaspersoft offers a Business Intelleginece Platforms, Alfresco a full featured Enterprise Content and Document Management System with Collobartion Tools (compliant to Microsoft SharePoint Protocol), SugarCRM a full featured CRM solution with PABX integration and Zimbra a web based E-Mail and Groupware Solution.
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During my time in the industry, one of my tasks was to set up a global core banking platform, as a shared service centrally. For this to happen, I also had to manage the setup of two global data centres, with the plan to evolve these towards a global application hosting centre, for service-oriented architecture-based application frameworks. At the time I pursued a multi-sourcing strategy, with project management, enterprise architecture as well as technology subject matter expertise, provided internally, to complement the service provider skills, although the vendors have been multinationals in their own right.
