Open Source Adoption In The Enterprise: How Maturity Drives Opportunity

A Live Webinar Conversation with Andrew Aitken and Frank Cohen

Introducing Open Source software in enterprises is often a challenging and slow process. The maturation of the technology and the surrounding ecosystem offers both a plethora of quality choices of software and engagement with a rapidly evolving ecosystem. The complexity and challenges inherent in the adoption of Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) throughout the application lifecycle; from technology evaluation and sourcing, vendor selection, the establishment of business controls and sound IT governance policies and the potential resulting organization and process changes that occur can all help software engineers and Enterprise IT be more productive. But these challenges need to be understood, prepared for, and managed. Join this webinar to learn how to strategically view and leverage open source software to the benefit of your organization.

In this live webinar, Andrew Aitken, of Olliance Group, a Black Duck Software company and Frank Cohen, of PushToTest, discuss the overall state of the open source ecosystem, the opportunities accruing to those who make the effort to engage, describe some of the challenges facing enterprise IT, define some approaches to measuring the challenges and lastly, discuss how open source is driving innovation.

Who should attend? This is for Managers, CIOs and other technology executives who are contemplating introducing open source technologies in their enterprise. We would love to learn about your experiences with open source software and IT governance methodologies.



Andrew Aitken is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy. He is a recognized expert on strategies for the commercialization of open source and has been a leader in the open source community. In 2001, Andrew founded The Olliance Group with other industry veterans to provide management and business strategy consulting to companies leveraging open source.Andrew has personally advised firms such as IBM, Intel, Nokia, Microsoft, and dozens of VCs and startups on their open source strategies.

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