Publications:

Our book is available on Amazon.

Today, most companies incorporate open source software (OSS) into the software products they create.  This helps companies to:

• Drive down costs,

• Accelerate product delivery, and

• Focus on the unique capabilities of their products.

While using OSS can accelerate your product delivery and improve your bottom line, unbridled use of OSS, without proper review and management approval, may place your intellectual property and your company at risk.

In Open Source Software: Implementing a Successful OSS Management Practice, author Jeffrey P. Brown helps you navigate the world of OSS to achieve your desired business outcomes.  This book cuts through the OSS myths and provides detailed guidance on how to select and responsibly use OSS.

In this book, you learn how to:

• Select software that not only meets your functional and technical needs, but helps you reduce cost and accelerate delivery

• Design and implement an OSS introduction process that supports responsible use, minimizes your risks, and accelerates your response to newly found security holes in your software

• Create additional revenue opportunities for your company

• Change the competitive landscape when competing with industry giants

• Navigate and mitigate OSS license risks

This book includes a step-by-step process for you to use to create an OSS introduction process that is custom fit to your unique needs.

Downloadable content from our book:

Since we are advocates for OSS, it is natural for us to provide these downloads in the native format of the open source software that we used to create them.  But don’t worry. If you need the documents in another format, these OSS programs also allow export into a format a proprietary product requires.  For instance, if you need a version for Microsoft Word or Excel, LibreOffice can save the document or spreadsheet in these formats

Note:  Required Software.  Don’t worry.  This software is free and open source, and it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS!

• LibreOffice is used for both the documents and spreadsheets.

Open Source Software Evaluation Selection Process

The OSS Evaluation Selection Process document covers the five basic steps to identify and evaluate software.

Open Source Software Review Questionnaire

The OSS Review Questionnaire document collects data relevant to different stakeholders and conducts a full 360 degree review of any piece of software.

Open Source Software Candidate Evaluation Scoring

The OSS Candidate Evaluation Scoring spreadsheet is a template that helps an evaluation team rank and score multiple solutions.