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Sun & Open Source: Innovazione ed Opportunità per le Pubbliche Amministrazioni

Sun & Open Source: Innovazione ed Opportunità per le Pubbliche Amministrazioni Roma, Forum P.A. 2004, 11 Maggio 2004. Giuseppe Facchetti EMEA Technology Office Vision Network Program Manager Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun in the Open Source Community.

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Sun & Open Source: Innovazione ed Opportunità per le Pubbliche Amministrazioni

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  1. Sun & Open Source: Innovazione ed Opportunità per le Pubbliche Amministrazioni Roma, Forum P.A. 2004, 11 Maggio 2004 Giuseppe Facchetti EMEA Technology Office Vision Network Program Manager Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  2. Sun in the Open Source Community • Bill Joy: “Innovation Will Occur -- It will occur in many places” • Linux and 27+ projects worldwide • Brazil, Interoperability Prototype for Liberty, Java Reliable Multicast Service, NetBeans • Grid Computing • Project JXTA • OpenOffice • Abicheck, Ant, Batik, Crimson, FreeTTS, Gcold, GNUlpr, Gnome, Java Make Tool, Mozilla, PDM Primes, TomCat, WBEM, Xalan, ... • Member of the Free Standards Group, Open Source Develop't Lab, Li18nux, ...

  3. What are Open Systems? ``We use state-of-the-art building blocks for both hardware and software. Our open systems philosophy enables easy integration of third party products to enhance and extend the system’s capabilities.´´

  4. Characteristics of Open Systems Defined and published Application Programming Interfaces (API‘s) Features and functions are published Functional interfaces are published and commonly accepted Modules can cooperate: interoperability Modules can be exchanged: integrateability

  5. Why Open Source • Shared innovation • Between developers at Sun and developers everywhere • Customer and partner benefits • Control of features, schedules, balance between stability and feature richness • Quality and security • Thousands of eyes looking at the source • Shared software literature • Teaching and advancing good software principles and practices • Open Source philosophy • Cooperative model: “Improving mankind, and having fun while we're at it”

  6. Is „Free“ Really Free? Is a free puppy that your children bring home really free of charges? It is wise to consider the total costs (TCO) The spirit of Free Software Free not as in free of charge Rather, free as in freedom of choice

  7. Sun Family of Products Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server X86 servers and clients Intel and AMD, 32-bit and 64-bit Linux and Solaris compatibility Java and the Java Enterprise System N1 Grid suite for the Data Center Sun Services and...

  8. JDS: Open Source Desktop Linux Operating Environment GNOME desktop Desktop Applications StarOffice Personal productivity Mozilla Browser Ximian Evolution Calendar

  9. Un Valido Modello per la P.A. L'Open Source favorisce l'innovazione e crea alternative all'offerta proprietaria Favorisce la diffusione di cultura informatica Gratuitamente e a tutti i livelli Permette lo sviluppo di creativita' locale abbassa la soglia d'ingresso permette la nascita di prodotti e servizi locali Utenti e partner possono customizzare Tutti possono partecipare ...e salire sulle spalle dei giganti Choice, Innovation and Value

  10. Thank you! Giuseppe Facchetti giuseppe.facchetti @ sun.com

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