BEST PRACTICES
As your organizations moves beyond initial experiments with open source, you will recognize the need for a strategic approach within all of your open source efforts. Establishing an open source strategic plan helps ensure that you take full advantage of these applications. Open WebApps Services will ensure you get the most out of your open source initiatives by employing open source best practices program within your business, which includes:
- The Product Selection Process – by understanding Open Source maturity modeling, you can make the right open source product choices.
- Leveraging Open Source Community resources – by understanding how open source community’s work, and how you can best contribute to the productivity of these communities, you will raise your open source effectiveness and maximize the benefits from your open source implementations.
- Organizational Effectiveness - by setting up processes to manage open source products to maximize operational efficiency and reduce product redundancy.
- License Obligation Analysis – reviewing your open source governance which covers open source policy enforcement, license compliance, establishing an online approval processes, and an audit trail of all the open source systems in your enterprise.