Slide deck with presentation given at LinuxWorld 2008 - LinuxWorld SF 2008

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

5. Apatar: The Big Idea

6. Autodesk Buzzsaw and
Professional Open Source
Image Courtesy of Uniform Communications LDT

7.  X users
 X companies
 X countries

8. Case Study
The world’s largest offshore drilling company

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

10. Solution: Google Mini To Index and Provide Search

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

12. Open Source Stack
 Red Hat
 MySQL
 Apatar
 Zenoss

13. Data flow schema
Data Center in Los Angeles

14. RedHat Linux to Host Integration Server

15. Apatar to extract documents

16. Google Mini to index documents

17. Solution: Zenoss to monitor server availability

18. The Result

19. Resources
 Autodesk Buzzsaw API Toolkit for Developers
http://projectpoint.buzzsaw.com/!/download/ProjectPointAPIToolkit.exe
www.autodesk.com/buzzsaw
 Apatar / Free Datamaps Download
www.apatarforge.org
www.apatar.com

20. Questions?
Jason Pratt jason.pratt@autodesk.com
Renat Khasanshyn renat.k@apatar.com