Chris Meyer
Ron Goldman, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Richard Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A.
Description
It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative
people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building
a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business. The key is developing a web-driven community where new types of
collaboration and creativity can flourish. Since 1998 Ron Goldman and Richard Gabriel have been helping groups at Sun Microsystems understand
open source and advising them on how to build successful communities around open source projects. In this book the authors present lessons
learned from their own experiences with open source, as well as those from other well-known projects such as Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.
Audience:
Business executives who need to understand how open source strategies can help them achieve their business goals, managers who want to
use open source to run a project, engineers who work on open source projects and need an idea of what is expected of them, and readers
interested in better understanding open source—its history, philosophy, and future.
