Leveraging FOSS for Startups. Presentation at AU-KBC / NRCFOSS event at Anna University, Guindy on 12th Jan 2010

1. Leveraging FOSS in startups
Logos courtesy Ludwig Gatzke

4. RedHat Linux
Apache 2
MySQL

5. PHP Frontend
Java Backend
Perl (Glue)

6. ImageMagick
PEAR XML
Smarty Template

7. "Today dozens of Google engineers use
Python, and we're looking for more people
with skills in this language"
Peter Norvig
Director of Search Quality

8. Photo courtesy Jeremy Zawodny

9. Virtualisation

10. Infrastructure
Development
Libraries

11. Operating Systems
Linux
FreeBSD
Infrastructure

12. Web Servers
Apache 2
Lighttpd
nginx
Tornado
Infrastructure

13. Scaling Infrastructure
Perlbal
Mongrel
Hadoop
Infrastructure

14. Relational Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Infrastructure

15. Non-Relational Databases
CouchDB
Project Voldemort
Infrastructure

16. Languages
PHP, Python, Perl
Ruby
Java (Open Source!), Scala
Jython, IronPython
Development

17. Frameworks
Zend, CakePHP
Ruby on Rails
Django, Turbogears, Pylons
Development

18. Smarty, ImageMagick, PIL, reportlab,
libxml, Elementree, Jakarta Commons,
Lucene, Xalan, ...
And thousands more for
anything and everything!
Libraries

19. ♥

20. Questions?
Siddharta Govindaraj
siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com