5 | 2003

Pssst ... Have I Got a Licensing Deal for You!
Open source is helping organizations save 50%-70% on their software licensing costs, freeing up resources for other ventures. It is creating sophisticated technology and business solutions at virtually zero cost. Get onboard and reap the benefits today!

Sound Too Good to Be True? It Probably Is.
I hope you believe in "share and share alike." The most "viral" -- and most popular -- open source license, the GNU GPL, may compel you to release your software back into the open source community. Open source licensing is tricky, and the risks are formidable.

"The open source software movement is clearly in the midst of changing the entire landscape of the commercial software market."

-- Jason R. Matthews, Guest Editor

Opening Statement
Jason R. Matthews

Penguins Stampeding the Enterprise
Gerald S. Greenberg

Open Source Java: Fortune 500 Systems at Two-Guys-in-a-Garage Prices
Ganesh Prasad

Come Together, Right Now:Eclipse and Open Development Tools Integration
Marc R. Erickson

Making Open Source Make Money
Luke Hohmann and Michael Olson

Intellectual Property and Open Source: Copyright, Copyleft, and Other Issues for the User Community
William A. Zucker

Next Issue

IT Metrics and Benchmarking: So many ideas and so little success!
Guest Editor: David Garmus

In the face of heightened scrutiny of executive management, every IT organization is under extreme pressure to justify its budget and quantify its ROI. Next month, David Garmus moderates the struggles of IT professionals to that end.

For every IT professional looking to parlay good metrics and benchmarking ideas into fact-based business measurements, next month's issue of the Cutter IT Journal



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Is open source just a "community of hackers" and a passing fad, or is it a fundamental paradigm shift in how software will be developed in the future? How will topics like intellectual property rights, project and process management, and technical support issues fit into the open source puzzle? Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Jason Matthews and a cadre of distinguished contributors take on open source to help you decide if broad adoption of this emerging "darling of the IT industry" is imminent or even likely.