Comments on: Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/ Software By Architecture, Design, and Experience Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:42:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mike http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/#comment-65 Mike Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:50:18 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=29#comment-65 <a href='#comment-59' rel="nofollow">@Esther Schindler</a> - I updated the link to CIO at the entrance of the post to your editorial on CIO. I have enjoyed reading all of your editorials as a java developer who runs an open source project. I try to think about what you are saying as both a developer and a CIO (which I know almost nothing about. ) Thanks for visiting, Esther.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('65','Mike'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('65','Mike','<a href=\'#comment-59\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Esther Schindler<\/a> - I updated the link to CIO at the entrance of the post to your editorial on CIO. \r\n\r\nI have enjoyed reading all of your editorials as a java developer who runs an open source project. I try to think about what you are saying as both a developer and a CIO (which I know almost nothing about. )\r\n\r\nThanks for visiting, Esther.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Esther Schindler - I updated the link to CIO at the entrance of the post to your editorial on CIO.

I have enjoyed reading all of your editorials as a java developer who runs an open source project. I try to think about what you are saying as both a developer and a CIO (which I know almost nothing about. )

Thanks for visiting, Esther.

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]]> By: Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption » klaus-dot-hofeditz http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/#comment-60 Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption » klaus-dot-hofeditz Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:23:10 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=29#comment-60 [...] http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/ This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('60','Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption &raquo; klaus-dot-hofeditz'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('60','Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption &raquo; klaus-dot-hofeditz','&#91;...&#93; http:\/\/72miles.com\/blog\/posts\/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption\/ This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. &#91;...&#93;'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/ This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]
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]]> By: Esther Schindler http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/#comment-59 Esther Schindler Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:44:16 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=29#comment-59 Good analysis, Mike. I'd like to add a couple of points -- since, of course, the original article (http://www.cio.com/article/375916) was written with the expectation that IT managers would read it, rather than developers (at least as the primary reader). It's not just that the #1 barrier is support, as IT/business managers see it; it's that nearly HALF of them say that's a big deal (respondents could choose up to three items) and none of the rest got out of the 20something percent range. Sure the "hey I didn't even know there WAS an open source option!" issue is #2, but security concerns are right behind that one. One thing that I find really interesting is that vendor pressure isn't really an issue. When developers are asked what they think is holding FOSS back, in the Evans Data surveys, they have always practically shouted, "Microsoft!" But the bosses don't really see that influence (or at least they don't perceive it as such, which from the "convince her to let us use this" point of view comes to the same thing). So really, the way to go about it is to take on something very unnatural for most developers: marketing. I wrote about this in a CIO blog post at http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/foss_marketing (picking on Alfresco in a nice way, as they had briefed me about their views on enterprise open source adoption). Professional marketing people (by which I mean "the good ones") learn to summarize benefits and show the features to back up their claims. In contrast, developers who get excited about a technology immediately want to dive deep into a single feature to see *just* how cool it is.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('59','Esther Schindler'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('59','Esther Schindler','Good analysis, Mike. I\'d like to add a couple of points -- since, of course, the original article (http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/375916) was written with the expectation that IT managers would read it, rather than developers (at least as the primary reader).\r\n\r\nIt\'s not just that the #1 barrier is support, as IT\/business managers see it; it\'s that nearly HALF of them say that\'s a big deal (respondents could choose up to three items) and none of the rest got out of the 20something percent range. Sure the \"hey I didn\'t even know there WAS an open source option!\" issue is #2, but security concerns are right behind that one.\r\n\r\nOne thing that I find really interesting is that vendor pressure isn\'t really an issue. When developers are asked what they think is holding FOSS back, in the Evans Data surveys, they have always practically shouted, \"Microsoft!\" But the bosses don\'t really see that influence (or at least they don\'t perceive it as such, which from the \"convince her to let us use this\" point of view comes to the same thing).\r\n\r\nSo really, the way to go about it is to take on something very unnatural for most developers: marketing. I wrote about this in a CIO blog post at http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/esther_schindler\/foss_marketing (picking on Alfresco in a nice way, as they had briefed me about their views on enterprise open source adoption). Professional marketing people (by which I mean \"the good ones\") learn to summarize benefits and show the features to back up their claims. In contrast, developers who get excited about a technology immediately want to dive deep into a single feature to see *just* how cool it is.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Good analysis, Mike. I’d like to add a couple of points — since, of course, the original article (http://www.cio.com/article/375916) was written with the expectation that IT managers would read it, rather than developers (at least as the primary reader).

It’s not just that the #1 barrier is support, as IT/business managers see it; it’s that nearly HALF of them say that’s a big deal (respondents could choose up to three items) and none of the rest got out of the 20something percent range. Sure the “hey I didn’t even know there WAS an open source option!” issue is #2, but security concerns are right behind that one.

One thing that I find really interesting is that vendor pressure isn’t really an issue. When developers are asked what they think is holding FOSS back, in the Evans Data surveys, they have always practically shouted, “Microsoft!” But the bosses don’t really see that influence (or at least they don’t perceive it as such, which from the “convince her to let us use this” point of view comes to the same thing).

So really, the way to go about it is to take on something very unnatural for most developers: marketing. I wrote about this in a CIO blog post at http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/foss_marketing (picking on Alfresco in a nice way, as they had briefed me about their views on enterprise open source adoption). Professional marketing people (by which I mean “the good ones”) learn to summarize benefits and show the features to back up their claims. In contrast, developers who get excited about a technology immediately want to dive deep into a single feature to see *just* how cool it is.

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]]> By: Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/#comment-57 Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:42:48 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=29#comment-57 [...] http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/  [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('57','Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('57','Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption','&#91;...&#93; http:\/\/72miles.com\/blog\/posts\/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption\/  &#91;...&#93;'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/  [...]
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]]> By: Adoption Rules, Issues, and News » Blog Archive » Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption http://72miles.com/blog/posts/greatest-barriers-to-open-source-adoption/#comment-55 Adoption Rules, Issues, and News » Blog Archive » Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:09:15 +0000 http://72miles.com/blog/?p=29#comment-55 [...] Kelly wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe good news is that 53% answered that they are already using open source tools. They survey also uncovered why the other 47% had not. Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Software Adoption at Your Company? Concern Percent Product support … [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('55','Adoption Rules, Issues, and News &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('55','Adoption Rules, Issues, and News &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption','&#91;...&#93; Kelly wrote an interesting post today onHere&#8217;s a quick excerptThe good news is that 53% answered that they are already using open source tools. They survey also uncovered why the other 47% had not. Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Software Adoption at Your Company? Concern Percent Product support &#8230; &#91;...&#93;'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] Kelly wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe good news is that 53% answered that they are already using open source tools. They survey also uncovered why the other 47% had not. Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Software Adoption at Your Company? Concern Percent Product support … [...]
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