As a result of the recent consolidation in the enterprise software space and the economic slowdown of 2009-2010, “open source” has finally entered the mainstream IT with more and more IT organizations implementing open-source applications/tools across their application portfolio.
Having said that, open source is a complex world with many product options in a given technology area with several questions around licensing options/constraints, long-term support models, developer productivity, total cost of ownership, etc.
Agilesys categorizes open source products in one of the following categories:
- Open source operating systems such as Android, Linux, etc
- Open source Programming languages/tools such as Perl, PHP, Python, MySQL, JBoss, Rails, Grails, etc
- Open source Frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring, Pentaho, etc
- Open source Enterprise software such as Alfresco, Liferay, Joomla, Drupal, Fuse, etc
- Open source Enterprise applications such as SugerCRM, Moodle, OpenBravo, etc
AgileSys team has experience of deploying the above open source tools in mid-to-large enterprises and software product organizations. Through this hands-on experience, AgileSys offers both strategic advisory and implementation services in almost all the above open source categories.
Our strategic advisory services include:
- Open source primer – targeted to IT leadership on licensing, development model, support options, etc.
- Open source implementation roadmap development
- Tool evaluation for specific categories such as Java frameworks, mobile toolkits, ESB tools, WCM tools, etc
- Tool deployment/rollout approach/program management
Our execution services include:
- Product implementation within the WCM space – Alfresco, Liferay, Joomla and Drupal implementation
- New application development using Java/J2EE, LAMP, RubyOnRails, GroovyOnGrails and other open source programming environments
- Migration from commercial Unix OS (AIX, SunOS, etc) to Linux OS
- Migration from a commercial app server (Websphere, Weblogic, etc) to open source app server (Apache, JBOSS, etc)
- Migration from commercial database (SQL Server, Oracle, etc) to an open source database (MySQL, Postgress SQL, etc)
- Migration to an open source framework – Spring, Hibernate, etc.
