Thursday, February 12, 2009

BOSSIE awards 2008

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=107881 has a great collection of best of the breed opensource source on various categories (never knew there was some opensource on network monitoring etc). Infoworld has done a meticulous work of profiling various oss upon different categories and have selected best among the tight contestants. Eventhough there are definetely arguments about selections, I feel this is a great place if somebody wants to start a opensource journey.

Apart from the fame and satisfying geeky ego, the sense of operating in a community drives the oss developers and this sense of belonging is one of the key motivators for participating in the OSS movements. Looking at the way economy is going with out any hope to see the end of the tunnel, more companies could adopt quality OpenSource Tools for cutting down the cost on licensing, which will futher motivate the community. Unfortunately the penetration has been only with the techsavvy orgs and adventurous architects/leads and the corporates are yet to proceed their march towards OSS in a big way.

Long live opensource........