Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Open Source Technologies the Way to Future Innovations and Development in it Domain

Dr. Tulshidas G. Mirge

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Open source technologies are developed by open source communities. Open Source means universal access with the help of “Free License” to a product design or blueprint and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.[1][2]. Any system of innovation or production that relies on goaloriented, loosely coordinated participants, who interact to create a product (or service) of economic value, which they make available to contributors and non-contributors alike.[3] There is a galaxy of open source technologies available .Currently IT industry have tools which are 60% open sourced[4] .The black Duck’s “Future Of Open Source Survey” (OSS) an initiative by IT Organization ZFrog survey reported, 56 percent of corporations expect to contribute to more open source projects in 2014. The industrial giants such as Oracle, MySql((database software),IBM, Eclipse(Open Source java development platform), JBoss (application server), Scalix (Linuxbased email and collaboration platform), RedHat (Linux distributor), and SugarCRM (sales force automation) Twitter, Netflix, Sony Ericsson ,Samsung ( Android apps A derivative of Linus),Novell and Google (Major internet giants) have accepted Open Source[5] as means to development the only exception is Microsoft. This paper looks in to history of open sourcing and examines various free software licenses, Advantages, Scope and Revenue generation from Open Source.

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Dr. Tulshidas G. Mirge Open Source Technologies the Way to Future Innovations and Development in it Domain International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 7 July 2014

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