 How is it that the geeky, non-traditional world of open source software is having such a tremendous impact on traditional IT organizations? Development teams, and Agile projects in particular, are increasingly looking to the open source community for tools, application components, best practices and even organizational models for software projects. Of all of the influences in the industry, the advent of open source software is by far the most significant that we've seen in many years.
In this issue of the Agile Journal, we bring you some terrific and pragmatic advice about open source software from practitioners in the field. Ross Pettit presents explores the economics of open source and how companies derive a range of benefits from leveraging open source software. Kirk Knoernschild recommends a number of open source tools that particularly benefit Agile developers. Greg Cottichia looks at the intellectual property challenges common to many open source projects, particularly those that include offshore partners. Jeff Hodson approaches the use of open source software - for development and runtime environments - from an architectural perspective, advocating that companies invest in architecture-centric environments to best leverage open source components and tools. Brad Appleton reviews "Practical Development Environments" by Matthew Doer, a truly pragmatic approach to building productive and collaborative tools. And finally, our case study this month comes from VA Software, developer of SourceForge.net and SourceForge Enterprise Edition, and describes its experiences using XP for product development.
Please let us know what your teams are experiencing. We're particularly interested in sharing best practices (and even worst practices) so that others can benefit. And, if you'd like to contribute an article to an upcoming Agile Journal issue, please let us know. Send your "Letters to the Editor" in the forum at AgileJournal.com.
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