presented during a workshop run by Software AG with public sector organisations looking to modernise their IT infrastructures, regaining control over incumbent vendors and SIs. The argument- open source is a catalyst for change, not an end in itself.

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Open Source as a Catalyst:
Digital by Default
Software AG Open Source Workshop June 2014

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Software is Eating the World

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But also Fragmenting

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Open Source is a means to
Improve service delivery

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ICT: farming

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ICT today: foraging

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Social Coding

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Agile and Test Driven Development

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Permission-based ICT
“Operating systems, databases, web and application servers, dev tools
all required money. To get anything done, then, developers needed
someone to write checks for the tools they needed to build. That
meant either raising the capital to buy the necessary pieces, or more
often requesting that an employer or other third party purchase them
on the developer's behalf.”
Stephen O’Grady – New Kingmakers, O’Reilly Publications

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Accelerating Innovation

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Big Outsourcing Contracts as CDOs
“These [huge] contracts were meant to be about lowering risk. But when you
package up a huge range of functions into one contract the risk becomes
impossible to manage”
Tariq Rashid, Lead Architect, UK Home Office

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Big Vendor Contracts

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Borrow from Web Companies

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Open Source Innovation
Cloud
Big Data and analytics
–Hadoop, Mongo, RIAK, Couchbase, Cassandra
Internet of Things
–MQTT, Node-Red
Browsers
–Chrome, Mozilla
Programming languages
–Javascript/Node.js, PHP
PaaS
–Cloud Foundry, Open Shift etc
DevOps
–Chef, Puppet, Jenkins

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Recommendations and Wrap-up
Digital by Default > Open Source
Service Design > Open Source
Open Source != Non-Commercial
Open Source != Open Standards
Open Data
New approaches to governance for IP, contract, supplier, project and portfolio management
Use Open Source to change the culture/as an organisational principle
Successful Open Source requires a technical competence
Impact on application development
agile, continuous deployment, microservices/APIs, TDD, DevOps, NoSQL, UX
Learn and Borrow from the Web – code, events, publications, tools
Software License fees are fair game, claim the rebate
Build, Deploy, Iterate – quick wins. Try before you buy