Ilkka Lehtinen Coss

COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions w w w . c o s s . f i JOIN NOW!COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions w w w . c o s s . f i JOIN NOW!

Open Source in European and Finnish public and private ecosystems

Ilkka Lehtinen

Executive Director

The Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions

www.coss.fi

9.12.2009

[email protected] +358 40 820 4600

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COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions w w w . c o s s . f i JOIN NOW!

COSS• Founded 2003

• Strengthening the competitiveness of Finnish and European software intensive industries

• Catalysing the development of information society supported by OSS

• Promotes OSS solutions and opportunities for different industrial sectors and user groups

• Produces communications & business development services for OSS companies

• Supports the inter-organisational network that enables new value systems to emerge


Achievements

- The Finnish open source business ecosystem can be identified and accessed- Ecosystem is growing- Open source is more and more generally accepted- Shared vision about the future is emerging in specific sub-ecosystems- Businesses are better able to identify their strategies in rapidly evolving value networks- There is a long term commitment of key stakeholders to continue collaboration- International co-operation has started



Myth # 8: No Money to be made by OpenSorce

• Truth is that most of money in IT Business is made through services rather than licensing

• Open Source is way of producing and distributing software, not a businessmodel.

• ...and the biggest successes in 2000’s have been software (OSS) driven businesses such as Google, Amazon, Ebay, Sulake Labs, MySQL...


Why National Competence Center?

• In relatively small market catalyzator is needed•Avoiding ” chicken-egg” problem

• Bringing all actors together•Open source ecosystem usually contains new players

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• Networking, networking, networking•New public services need new approach

•Case Denmark – why they are best on using OS in public sector

•Case Finland – why they are best on usuing OS in private sector


Case Denmark – best in Public Sector Digital services• National funded competence center – softwareborsen.dk

•borger.dk and virk.dk -portals have been great success

• Iterative developement cycle

•Open source approach

•Easy and quick adaption of new features

•=> Result: Denmark is #1 in Public Sector netservices:

• Goal: 2012 all correspondence between Public servants and citizen and business entities can be electronic.


Case Finland – best in OS usage on Private Sector• COSS focus area has been helping private sector business to

benefit from OS


Case Finland – why not good on Public Sector• No central guidance – money is divided in too small amount's on

operational level•Buying instead investing

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• No Public Sector competence centre•COSS has been helping but not focusing because of funding


Case München• LiMux – project: Target is convert major part of desktop's to Open

Source

• Project was heavily judged in early phase because of costs•Now these investments are benficial for ALL German cities and

muncipalities


Steps needed on way to benefical OS strategy

• Schools first • If you educate people with OS Solutions they will use them in worklife

also

• Create National Competence Centre with adequate and long term funding

• Collaborate with private business•Work through competence centre

• Use EU and other avaliable services and networks:•www.osor.eu

•www.qsos.org

•www.ohloh.net

•www.eosdirectory.com

• Create activity → National Open Source Conference etc.

http://www.osor.eu/

http://www.qsos.org/

http://www.ohloh.net/

http://www.eosdirectory.com/


Practical example: Ministry of Justice, FIN• Choosing between SmartSuite, MS Office and OpenOffice

• 11000 workstations

• Cost comparsion 2006-2011 IBM SS MS Office OO

License purch 668 300 € 2 517 000 € 211 000 €

License maint 737 000 € 3 545 000 € 737 000 €

Training and support 200 000 € 370 000 € 580 000 €

Conversions 105 000 € 355 000 € 535 000 €

Total 1 710 300 € 6 787 000 € 2 063 000 €

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• Ministry of science and technolgy, Denmark– ”Choosing an Office Suite” (Devoteam, 2005)

– 6 organizations

” no obvious differences in productivity between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org ”

• EU Comission study– ”Study on the economic impact of open source...”(UNU-MERIT, 2006)

– 6 european organization (Italy, Irland, Hungary, Macedonia)

OpenOffice.org equals with Microsoft Office when compared on daily document processing work.

Cost- and productivity studies

OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office


Kiitokset -Thank You

Ilkka Lehtinen

Executive Director

[email protected]

www.coss.fi


http://www.coss.fi/

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