{"id":272,"date":"2010-07-02T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/open-source-vs-non-critical-applications\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T20:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:43:18","slug":"open-source-vs-non-critical-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/open-source-vs-non-critical-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source Vs non critical applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/TCzosawgvFI\/AAAAAAAABXc\/5nvqOZM6vIQ\/s1600\/open.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489017895652473938\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 150px; cursor: hand; height: 127px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/TCzosawgvFI\/AAAAAAAABXc\/5nvqOZM6vIQ\/s200\/open.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>For the critical applications of a portfolio, you usually have a clear strategy at short, medium and long term. Clear strategy and probably an assigned budget aligned with the needs.<\/p>\n<p>For those non-critical applications you have in the portfolio the solution is not always good, standard, cheap or simple.<\/p>\n<p>You probably have a set of different applications for different purposes that were created or bought to cover a business process as necessary as others, but that was out of this set of key applications that have assigned budget.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people face this scenario.<\/p>\n<p>Now a cheap alternative seems to be possible with the open source solutions. You can find proven open source applications that covers all these functionalities in a standard way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covering standard processes (ITIL, SAS 70),<\/li>\n<li>Offering a set of standard end user features (),<\/li>\n<li>Web 2.0 based,<\/li>\n<li>That you can adapt to different environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Virtual environments help on the use of these applications due to the TCO of an environment just for an unique application has been reduced a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a good strategy?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but since the IT budgets has been reduced during these 2 years but business needs continue there, and this alternative is at least a valid interim solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the critical applications of a portfolio, you usually have a clear strategy at short, medium and long term. Clear strategy and probably an assigned budget aligned with the needs. 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