Open Source Infrastructure Finds a Home

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On-Demand may be the business model that makes proprietary software competitive against open source, while giving open source a profitable business model as well

There are 3 major satellites in orbit in technology today: Traditional, on-premise proprietary software, On-Demand software as services and Open Source software. They are starting to align in fairly compatible ways, amazingly enough. Vendors in each segment talk apocalyptically about the others, but the less dramatic truth is that the 3 will probably all live on, and grow more interdependent over time. Proprietary software probably has the most difficult road ahead, but as it moves from on-premise to services it will keep a strong market presence.For example, take NetSuite (SightLines is a reseller, by the way). NetSuite has built their web-based accounting and CRM system on the proprietary Oracle Database, but with the open source Linux operating system, and of course they are pioneers in on-demand software as services. Even better, the Oracle Application Server tier of their system incorporates the open source Apache web server. <a href="http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/enterprise_software_open_source/index.html">Infrastructure will continue to be the strong point for open source.</a>With last week's announcement from Microsoft that they are throwing their hat into the On-Demand game, we can expect more proprietary systems moving to services in the next few years. As this happens we will see more software built on the open source infrastructure of Linux, Apache and PHP, a programming language. The database remains a difficult question. As on-demand software as services ramp up in the datacenter it's hard to see how they can continue to rely on MySQL. DB2 or Oracle seem like better bets to handle millions of transactions and the necessary fail-over capabilities. Small and medium sized companies need to take note. Many of them are still throwing together systems willy-nilly with no thought as to the total integrated picture. This is not wise, and neither is the truculence about data stored on-premise. Their best bet for the software solutions that can maximize their efficiency and profits is to look for software as services managed at a professional data center. The time is coming that they will no longer need to know or care about operating systems, databases and other technical infrastructure. Their expertise will be the business processes that make their company better than their competitors. But to get there they will need to start the journey from their current over-sized IT Department. 9 application/xml false on-demand software as services web-based accounting web-based CRM Open Source Infrastructure Finds a Home The Deal Architect on Open Source http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/enterprise_software_open_source/index.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; YPC 3.0.1; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 68.252.68.116 68.252.68.116 tfoydel false true false false true 205861 false false true false false false true 102302 blog blogsite/SightLines/web