Dell eye-catching open-source Ubuntu

Dell decided to pre-install Ubuntu7.04 on some of its consumer desktops and laptops, marking the opportunity for mainstream consumers to use open-source operating systems, the time has come to show the new Linux members. Among millions of open-source projects, Ubuntu is a rare one, and many other similar open-source projects are lost after success. For many companies that are expanding the scope of use of open-source projects, this is a dilemma Dell decided to pre-install Ubuntu 7.04 on some of its consumer desktops and laptops, this indicates that mainstream consumers will have the opportunity to use open-source operating systems. On the other hand, the new Linux members are coming soon. Among millions of open-source projects, Ubuntu is a rare one, and many other similar open-source projects are lost after success.

This is a dilemma for many companies that are expanding the scope of use of open-source projects. Therefore, developers and IT companies in large enterprises must be able to better identify open-source winners and avoid failures. Wrong selection may cause your company to fall into a black hole, in vain facing a bunch of technical support problems and outdated software.

Open-source projects that are expected to succeed in the next wave include the Mule Enterprise Service Bus platform, Alfresco content management system, and Spring framework for Java applications. But what will happen to the other 139,831 projects?

One of the most promising projects is OpenVista, a software for managing medical records and health care. OpenVista has several strengths: good code Foundation, urgent user needs, and companies that want to bring it to commercial use. However, the different opinions of the leadership will seriously damage open-source projects, but in formal software companies, it is entirely possible to avoid such incidents.

OpenVista submitted the code to SourceForge on April 9, June 6 last year. This seems quite common because Medsphere, which has funded OpenVista for commercialization, has repeatedly promised to release code. However, things quickly go back and forth. Three weeks later, Medsphere accused the co-founder and CTO Steve Shreeve of taking responsibility for that code release.