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OPEN-SOURCING FOR ENTERPRISES

What to Open Source and What Not

BENEFITS OF OPEN-SOURCING FOR AN ENTERPRISE

Motivate/Retain Engineers!

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Attract Top Technical Talent

Reduce Development Costs

# Increase Product Quality

$ Good Public Relations

Active community develops and submits new features

“Peer pressure” improves code quality and documentation

Community will find bugs and even fix them

Builds credibility among technical community

Helps establish company as an innovative technology led organization

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ACTIVELY OPEN-SOURCING COMPANIES

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WHAT TO OPEN-SOURCE

• Various Platform Components

• Development Libraries

• Engineering Tools and Utilities

• Deployment Tools

• Monitoring Tools

• Database Clients and Tools

• Testing Frameworks

GENERIC CAPABILITIES THAT ARE NOT SPECIFIC TO YOUR LINE OF BUSINESS

WHAT NOT TO OPEN-SOURCE

• Internal Business Applications

• Business Logic Services

• Data Services

• Data

• Anything related to core business

CAPABILITIES THAT PROVIDE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT PROMOTION

Engineering Blog e.g. http://techblog.netflix.com/

Engineering Twitter Handle (@<Company>Tech)

Tech Meetups Presenting Hosting

Posts to

Hacker News” (Y-Combinator news platform)

Twitter LinkedIn Groups

Groups Google+ Communities

Reddit

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