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Fotis Karonis

CIO, Romtelecom

Open Source

Age of Agility

Athens, Dec 9h 2009

Ηλεκτρονική∆ιακυβέρνηση

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• Cost Savings – No Licensing Fees

• Open Solutions vs Proprietary

software

• Speed to Deployment

Open Source is here to stay

enabling the intelligent & low cost enterprise

• Open Standards

• Increased Security

• Cost Savings in Infrastructure

and overall Reduced TCO

•and more…

Apache

Web server

Moodle

E-learning platform

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Is the Crisis Good or Badfor Open Source software?

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Leveraging Open Source to

Minimizing costs & Maximizing benefit

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Open Source software?

• Access to source code

• Users can modify and improve

• Anyone can redistribute

• Public collaborative development

• The power of many

– Open source projects built by hundreds / thousands of users and

developers

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Security and Risks

An open source system that all the bright developers have gone through and enhanced to

eliminate all vulnerabilities

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•Government

•Private enterprises

•Municipalities

•Local Administration

•NGOs

•Non-profit organizations

•Universities

Open Source as a vehicle for

promoting economic development

Open Source as a vehicle for

promoting economic development

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Open Source solutions

• Operating systems

Databases Content management

systems

Middleware / dev platforms

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Case study : eLearning in Romtelecom

using moodle, the open source collaboration platform

MoodleE-learning platform

Scalable Architecture

Fast deployment : 1-2 months

5.000 users trained in 2009

No Licenses, minimum operational costs

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Open Source Adoption Lifecycle in the Enterprise

Explore

Minimal use in non-critical systems

Use becomes more

mainstream

Embed in Enterprise Wide

Mission Critical Systems

Significantly reducing costs

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FREEDOM

OPENSOURCE

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BACKUP

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2008 2009 2009 2010

Open Source Roadmap in Romtelecom

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Examples of systems using open source

ApplicationOperating system(open source)

DatabaseApplication server(open source)

Hercules(5000 internal users)

Oracle

ePaySlip(10000 internal users)

Oracle

Atlas(4000 internal users)

Oracle

MyAccount(40000 external users)

Oracle

Apache

JBoss

TomCat

TomCat

Total cost savings: CAPEX 820.000 € OPEX 135.000 € / year