1. Open Source Adoption in the
Enterprise
by
Prajod Vettiyattil
Lead Architect
Wipro Technologies

2. DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in this presentation are the views of the
speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of Wipro
Technologies Ltd.

3. Agenda
 What is Open Source?
 Why use Open Source?
 How to adopt?
 Where to use?
 Who are involved?
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4. WHAT
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5. Open Source
“Open Source software (OSS) is computer software that is
available in source code form” - Wikipedia
 Open Source and free for use
• Up front cost: None
• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance
and support
 Closed Source and pay for use
• Up front cost : Pay for purchase
• Maintenance: Pay for maintenance and support
What Why How Where Who
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6. Open Source and Closed Source: Expenditure
Expenditure Open Source Closed Source
Area
CAPEX -NA- Acquisition
Consulting Consulting
OPEX
Support Support
What Why How Where Who
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7. WHY
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8. Why use Open source ?
 Market momentum
 Economic Pressures
 Flexible Cost Model
 Cloud Migration and Alignment
 Choice of Support vendors
 Innovation from wider community
 More control over software
What Why How Where Who
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9. HOW
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10. Challenges to adoption
 Support
 IP Risk
 Internal Resistance
What Why How Where Who
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11. The support options
 SLA based support
 Consulting
 Flexible support models
 Competing vendors
What Why How Where Who
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12. Handling IP Risks
 Open Source Usage Policy
 Contract with support
vendors
 Governance team
What Why How Where Who
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13. Handling Internal Resistance
 Address Concerns
• Opportunity related
• Control related
• Product Capability related
 Training
• Vendor supported
• Internally driven
What Why How Where Who
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14. WHERE
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15. Where to use Open Source ?
 Product driven decision
• Popular product
• Internal acceptance
• Skills are available
 Analysis driven decision
• Business requirements
• Product availability
• Vendor availability
• Product capability
• Skill availability
What Why How Where Who
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16. Where is Open Source being used ?
 Operating Systems
• Linux
 Development Environment
• CVS, Eclipse
 CRM
• Sugar CRM, OpenCRX
 ESB
• WSO2, Mule, ServiceMix
 Web servers
• Apache, Tomcat
What Why How Where Who
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17. For solutions moving to the Cloud
 Cloud readiness
• Deployable on the Cloud
• Open Source Vendor’s Cloud
• Many cloud platforms on Open
Source
• Elastic Pricing Models
What Why How Where Who
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18. WHO?
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19. Who are involved?
 Open source community
 Support vendors
 Software service providers
 Closed source providers
What Why How Where Who
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20. Leading the adoption
 Securities
 Insurance
 Energy
 Healthcare
What Why How Where Who
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21. EPILOGUE
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22. Going forward
 Awareness of the changing
Open Source landscape
 Cloud Adoption among
organizations
 Economic Cycles
 Completeness of Software
Stacks
 Choice among support vendors
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23. Closing comments
 Opportunity
• Good Traction
• Customer pull
 Drivers
• SLA based support
• Maturing Business Model
• Economic Pressures
 Momentum
• Software Vendors
• Service Providers
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24. Questions
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25. THANK YOU
prajod.vettiyattil@wipro.com
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