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Open source globalization benefits organizations, individuals

http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21009

Open source software can help manage large software projects of globally distributed, individual contributors with virtually no management overhead. As open source blends more and more with the commercial software industry, this property of the open source phenomenon, which I will refer to as "open source globalization," may have an even higher impact on engineering jobs than IT offshoring. But this time, the news is not so bad for those who embrace the change.

Published Monday, October 16, 2006 5:24 PM by Christof

Comments

 

Carl Rosenberger said:

The article on IT Managers Journal is very nice, Christof, thank you. I think it is worthwhile submitting it to Slashdot. Maybe some of our community members can try to submit?

October 16, 2006 6:46 PM
 

German Viscuso said:

Done! The submission is pending in slashdot now.

Great article!

Best regards,

German

October 16, 2006 11:21 PM
 

jiangshachina said:

Done too ^_^

Globalization cann't be rejected. It's a trend of modern world.

Global competition forces developers in developing contries, such as China, to improve their various abilities. And also makes them to paly with many masters, professionals or other open source funs in a same stage, of course, may in different roles.

That's a great benefit!

October 17, 2006 4:13 AM
 

treeder said:

Great article! This really is a new frontier and the open source companies are the pioneers.

October 17, 2006 6:44 AM
 

trebla said:

The article is very good.

Globalization means I can have the chances to work with people in different countries who are the best in their fields.

October 17, 2006 9:10 PM
 

Carl Rosenberger said:

I came through:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/18/0012237

Thanks for the support, German!

October 18, 2006 12:29 PM
 

Andrew Zhang said:

I'm enjoying working with people from all of the world!

Globalization is also a key to local market from business view!

October 18, 2006 5:56 PM
 

Christof on Tech & Biz said:

Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of

April 14, 2007 1:18 AM
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