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Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Case Study
1. Insomniac Games/Sony Computer Entertainment
Case Study - Professional Open Source at
Autodesk & Transocean
LinuxWorld San Francisco - August 5, 2008
Jason Pratt, Autodesk, Inc.
Renat Khasanshyn, Apatar, Inc
Image courtesy of Magna Steyr Design
2. Autodesk
Customers use our technologies to create
digital models and workflows that help them
visualize, simulate, and analyze their
designs.
This enables them to experience their ideas
before they are real and improve the real
world performance of their projects.
3. Autodesk: Financial Strength
Founded 1982
Revenue $2+ billion
Operating margin +25%
Cash and equivalents $800+ million
No debt
4. Apatar: Open Source Data Integration
Founded in 2008 Apatar Connectors
Salesforce.com SugarCRM XML
30,000+ downloads POP3 Buzzsaw LDAP
OpenBravo Amazon CSV/TXT
4500+ Users Compiere SMTP/FTP DB2
MySQL MS SQL Oracle
9. The Transocean Challenge
• Wanted to allow rig personnel to search Autodesk
Buzzsaw knowledgebase
• Users were accustomed to Google Desktop, but
no central repository existed
11. Data Integration Challenges
Data Integration
Google mini can’t index Buzzsaw folders out of the box
Data Access - users have to authenticate three times:
a) To access Buzzsaw
b) To access Google mini page with search results
c) To open files in Buzzsaw through URL passed
through Google Mini
Service Uptime Management
Had to ensure network and availability monitoring