Graham Bird of The Open Group stated that The Open Group management
had endorsed an intitiative to see what The Open Group could do in the open source space.
Business confidence was key.
Walter Stahlecker of HP presented an overview of the motivations and
issues, including a review of the key ideas emerging from the Cannes meeting in October,
2002, and ending with a detailed agenda for today's session [PPT].
Carl Bunje, Chair of the Customer Council, built on Walter's
presentation by presenting on the topic of "How to leverage Open Source
strategically, rather than in technical and political niches?" [PPT].
Each participant was invited to write down his or her:
- Personal Interest
- Company Interest
- Hopes & Expectations
- Directions & Solutions
in the field of open source. The meeting was then thrown open to a round robin
discussion, in which individual participants expanded on what they had written down. The
output was collected as a series of slides [PPT].
Walter Stahlecker, Carl Bunje, and Elaine
Bacbcock then undertook to synthesize these inputs ahead of the BoF meeting
scheduled for that evening. Four potential work items were identified:
- Develop guidelines for establishing the business case for Open Source
- Technology vendors
- Customers
- Develop managers‘ guide for Open Source in the Enterprise
- Develop guide for Open Source risk management
- Develop TOGAF guidelines for use of Open Source Building Blocks in architectures
Stormy Peters, HP's manager of open source, then reviewed a number of
best practices for open source [PPT].
In particular, Stormy presented a number of different Open Source business cases, plus
examples of when it might not make sense to use open source. Stormy concluded with a
review of HP's own Open Source Review Process, and its Open Source Policy Objectives.
Bruce Perens explained that he had been retained by The Open Group
management to develop an Open Source strategy for The Group, and this output would provide
valuable input to that exercise.
