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deployment can be too high. However, where a capability has wide
application (e.g. MediaWiki, the Lucene search engine, etc.) then the
FLOSS community tends to be large and active. Consequently, third-
party support vendors will often have emerged to support these products,
which means there is often little to choose from the sustain/maintenance
side of the equations between the FLOSS and a commercial solution.
Overall, FLOSS has been critical in our developing collaboration
capacity. It is certainly the case that without the availability of software
that can be rapidly deployed with minimal initial overhead, we would
not have been able to experiment in the way we did during the early
phase. Being able to build up experience and understanding as to what
collaboration with social media tools really means within a business
environment was critical. The learning provided from our FLOSS projects
has proved invaluable during the Production Deployment and Shared
Service phases and allowed us to create solutions that fi t with the new
working practices in a Web 2.0-enabled world.
13.4 Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the many colleagues who
contributed to the various projects described here. In particular Paul
Driscoll, Scott Gavin, Chris Bouton, Stephen Jordan, Andrew Berridge,
Steve Herring, Jason Marshall, Daniel Siddle, Anthony Esposito and
Nuzrul Haque.
13.5 References
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Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration
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Sloan Management Review 47(April 2006): 21-28.; and McAfee A.
'
Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for your Organisation's Toughest
Challenges
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[2] Patterson R. 'Social Media and the Organisation' FastForward Blog,
http://
www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/08/29/social-media-and-the-organisation-
part-1/
, updated August 2007.
[3] MoWeS Portable CH Software,
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/mowes/
mowesportable/mowes.htm
[4] Server2Go,
http://www.server2go-web.de/
[5] BitNami,
http://bitnami.org/
[6] Apache Friends,
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
[7] Thought Police VMWare Images,
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/
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