The document discusses the significance of open source software for innovation and talent acquisition in organizations, highlighting that many companies have shifted to releasing internal projects as open source. It outlines best practices for adopting open source, including culture transformation and collaboration, and provides a roadmap for organizations to engage with open source projects. Additionally, it details Pivotal's open source data management portfolio and its efforts in community collaboration within the big data ecosystem.

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OSS Playbook

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Your Panel
Stephen O’Grady
Principal Analyst and Co-
founder, RedMonk
Roman Shaposhnik
Director of Open Source,
Pivotal
Dormain Drewitz
Director, Product Marketing,
Pivotal Big Data Suite

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Agenda
 Why Open Source
 Best Practices
 Where to start

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Why Open Source

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Software Is Eating The World
But these guys don’t sell software
SOFTWARE IS EATING THE WORLD

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The most innovative software companies in the
world don’t just use open source…
They grow open source
The percent of organizations that say they will release
internal tools and projects as open source increased from
18% in 2014 to 47% in 2015 – Black Duck Software survey

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Roadmap

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Guess who…
Exclusive to Silicon Valley? No.
October 2015
Hires Jim Jagielski, co-founder of ASF
As Sr. Director in the Fellows Program
July 2015
Announces release of Hygieia
(open source DevOps dashboard)

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Who?

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Why Open Source (recap)
 Recruiting
 Retention
 Did we mention talent?
 Roadmap transparency and ownership
 Leverage
 Speed

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A word on Open Source for Data Mgmt
Avoid Lock-in

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Best Practices

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Culture Transformation

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Process

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Collaboration

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Start Here

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Start with projects close to home

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Start with projects that matter
“We look for projects that align either as
an information-based company — data is
essential to the way we run the business
— so we’re involved in many of the
Hadoop and Hadoop ecosystem
projects.”
- George Brady, executive vice president of technology

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Your 2016 Playbook
• Advocate OSS to leadership (if these slides help, great!)
– Or, leaders, listen to developers
• Assess projects in use; identify pilots
• Begin community building “behind the firewall”
• Make open source engagement someone’s job
• Engage vendors and third-parties for guidance

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Pivotal Big Data Suite
Complete
platform
Open source
Deployment
options
Hadoop Native
SQL
Flexible
licensing
Advanced data
services
PIVOTAL GREENPLUM
DATABASE
Open source data
warehouse database
PIVOTAL HDB
Open source analytical
database for Apache
Hadoop based on Apache
HAWQ
PIVOTAL GEMFIRE
Open source application
and transaction data grid
based on Apache Geode
Pivotal Big Data Suite
Open source data management portfolio

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Pivotal’s open source data portfolio
In 2015 alone…
• 6 million lines of code released to
open source in 4 new communities
• 25 members strong, ODPi launched
to drive Hadoop adoption and
accelerated ecosystem
• Now collaborating with 250 open
source developers across 4
communities

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