Open Source for the Enterprise

Author: Dan Woods, Gautam Guliani

Publication: O'Reilly

ISBN: 0596101198

Pages: 117

About Author:

Mr. Woods is, perhaps, best known for his long standing and on-gong role as Mr. Raditch, in the Emmy Award winning Degrassi franchises. In the nineteen years since he began with Degrassi, Dan's role has expanded from a no non-sense upwardly mobile teacher in the 80's?? to the school principal in the latest Degrassi incarnation... The Next Generation.

Mr. Woods , was executive producer and host of the automotive series Chop Cut Rebuild (CCR TV) for the Fox Network specialty network the Speed Channel.

Mr. Woods successfully undertook the task of developing and producing long-form drama projects commencing with The Happy Couple, a feature film based on a story from Boccacio's ?˜Decammeron'. The film premiered at the 2002 Mexico International Film Festival ' Ajijic, to critical success. In 2003 The Happy Couple was awarded ?œBest Screenplay?? at the Phoenix International Festival. The film has since screened at renowned festivals such as Breckenridge and Atlantic City. Dan was also Executive Producer of the docu-drama Of No Fixed Address - A raw and unrelenting look at the growing phenomenon of youth homelessness in Canada.

Gautam Guliani is a software architect and developer with over 10 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise-grade solutions to business problems in publishing, finance, and education areas. He currently works as Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a Washington Post company.

About Book:

This book provides something far more valuable than either the cheerleading or the fear-mongering one hears about open source. The authors are Dan Woods, former CTO of TheStreet.com and a consultant and author of several books about IT, and Gautam Guliani, Director of Software Architecture at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. Each has used open source software for some 15 years at IT departments large and small. They have collected the wisdom of a host of experts from IT departments, open source communities, and software companies. Open Source for the Enterprise provides a top to bottom view not only of the technology, but of the skills required to manage it and the organizational issues that must be addressed.