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Is the Open Source Conversation Dead?

May 15, 2009

One of my partners was asked by the Chief Information Officer of a major financial services organization for some help thinking through his open source strategy.  Honestly, the open source conversation has not come up much lately. Is open source in the enterprise a dead issue? Have companies already tapped into the open source apps and tools and exhausted the options?  Or, maybe consideration of open source software is fully integrated into companies’ software selection ...

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Application Architecture’s Waxy Build-Up

April 1, 2009

Susan Cram’s article on the evolution of systems points to the “clean as you go” approach as the only workable way to reduce the application clutter built up over time.  I agree with her observations as surrounding the legacy systems doesn’t do anything to reduce the cost burden.  Also, the greenfield approach almost always creates a program too large and complex to complete. The next question is how to approach the cleanup – or application ...

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