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The 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service is an analytical service designed to help enterprise end users, software vendors and investors track and understand the opportunities and threats presented by open source.
The 451 CAOS Research Service delivers frontline intelligence on customer adoption issues and market dynamics, including budgeting, approval, organizational challenges, technical concerns, implementation lifecycle and vendor support. It offers analysis of the open source technology providers, their business models and their competitive positioning at various levels. It also provides in-depth case studies on the challenges and opportunities faced by early adopters across various levels of the software stack.
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 Buy Report Ten: Mobility Matters (Nov 2008)
What are the hurdles, benefits, opportunities and risks to using open source in mobile software? How will it stack up against proprietary, sometimes entrenched, competition? What about adoption in the more mainstream consumer device market and the mobile enterprise — will open source present challenges or opportunities for vendors that choose it?
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Buy Report Nine: Open Source Is Not a Business Model (Oct 2008)
This report assesses the development, licensing and revenue-generation strategies used by vendors that market products and services based on open source code. The report is also designed to assess the impact that open source license choice, development model, vendor licensing strategy, revenue triggers and sales models have on each other in determining the overall business model used by businesses selling products and services based on open source software.
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Buy Report Eight: The rise of community Linux (Jul 2008)
This report considers the role and impact that community Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu have on commercial vendors. It also considers the general trend toward more options when it comes to using and supporting enterprise Linux. What do these freely distributed, community-developed Linux distros and additional commercial options mean for the enterprise Linux market?
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Buy Report Seven: Turning the Tables? (Mar 2008)
This report examines the adoption of open source database software to date and explores what barriers the open source vendors have to overcome to mount a meaningful long-term challenge to the big three. The report also assesses the response of the incumbent vendors to the open source challenge, and includes a survey assessing the attitudes toward open source and proprietary databases among executives responsible for the procurement of database management systems.
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Buy Report Six: GPLv3 - Liberation or limitation? (Feb 2008)
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Buy Report Five: The SMB market opportunity (Nov 2007)
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Buy Report Four: Managing in the Open (Jul 2007)
This report examines the impact of open source on the systems management software segment. More specifically, it examines the future of open source systems management and the impact on traditional software vendors and end users. The focus of this report is the emergence of a number of open source systems management vendors and the disruptive impact they may have on proprietary systems management vendors. The report reviews the existing open source systems management players and clearly articulates the similarities and differences among offerings. It also explores the noncommercial angle and leading open source systems management projects that are being rapidly adopted in the enterprise.
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Buy Report Three: Going open (Feb 2007)
This report examines the trend of proprietary software vendors 'going open.' It pays particular attention to those software vendors in transition that have made, or are in the process of making, a major business-model shift toward open source, and away from their proprietary, licensed software roots. The report attempts to capture the process of going open by looking at these software vendors, examining their own experiences and best practices.
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Buy Report Two: Cost Conscious (Oct 2006)
This 451 CAOS report is a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source in enterprise IT projects. This report was written for the IT manager or architect, who, often with no background in accounting, is tasked with building a financial analysis for a proposed open source initiative. It includes an introduction to the basics of financial analysis as they relate to the open source adoption process, and a tool to help identify and capture the costs (and potential benefits) for adopting an open source project.
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Buy Report One: Stack and Deliver (Aug 2006)
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