BlackDuck Open Source Catalyst for Innovation

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Open Source as a Catalyst forInnovation and Cultural ChangeFeaturing Yahoo!


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Speakers

Andrew Aitken

Senior VicePresident of theOlliance Group

Gil Yehuda

Director ofOpen SourceYahoo!, Inc.


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Agenda

Open Source and Innovation in Industry Today

How Open Source Drove Innovation at Yahoo!

Q&A

Summary & Conclusion


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About - Andrew Aitken

Founded in 2001 - acquired by Black Duck 12/31/2010

Mission: To help clients capitalize on the strategic,technological, and financial benefits of open source.

The leading open source business and strategy consultingfirm.

500 projects for more than 150 clients

Founded Olliance Group in 2001

Created the Open Source Think Tank Conference

Invite-only event for industry influencers to discuss the future ofcommercial open source

On Board of Advisors at SugarCRM, Actuate, DotNetNuke &Funambol

Assisted in the development of open source strategies withcompanies such as: IBM, Sun, Intel, Nokia and HP

Voted one of the most influential people in open source, in 2009,

by a survey of peers conducted by Mindtouch, Inc.


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About Gil Yehuda

Gil is the Director of Open Source Strategy at Yahoo! Inc.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Gil was a Senior Analyst at ForresterResearch focusing on information management, knowledgemanagement, and collaboration strategy. He was also anEnterprise Architect at Fidelity Investments where he wasresponsible for IT governance and development technologystandards. Gil is an influential blogger in the Enterprise 2.0,Open Source, and Innovation marketplace, and has beenkeynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous

conferences.

Gil blogs at www.GilYehuda.com and tweets @gyehuda
http://www.gilyehuda.com/http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/http://www.gilyehuda.com/


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In an environment of scarcity,controlling the resources leads

to wealth.

What about in an environment ofabundance?

Consider


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How Open Source Drives

Innovation


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Changing Face of Software Development

Software development has changed

Collaborative development Organizational transparency

Componentization & search for re-use

Distributed teams, agile methods

Market Need: Managing Abundance Over 500,000 FOSS projects

Maturation and proliferation is causing:

Balkanization

Sourcing and evaluation challenges

Developer mindshare drift


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OpenSource

Innovation


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Automotive

GENIVI is a non-profit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoptionof an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform. GENIVI will accomplishthis by aligning requirements, delivering reference implementations, offering

certification programs and fostering a vibrant open source IVI community. Ourwork will result in shortened development cycles, quicker time-to-market, andreduced costs for companies developing IVI equipment and software.


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Veterans Affairs VistA Modernization

VA believes that the most reliable, most cost effective, and quickestmechanism to re-position this tremendous national asset and to keep pacewith innovation is to create a custodial agent based on well-understoodopen source business models. By doing so, and better proliferate thoseinnovations inside our hospitals and clinics.

However, todays health care environment in which new models of careare continuously developed and deployed is utterly dependent upon theaccelerating technological development of new medical devices, improvedIT infrastructure, services, and wireless communications.

VA believes that the creation of an EHR ecosystem is a key enabler to therapid development and deployment of innovations that will benefit theentire market.

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Agenda

Three Conclusions

Two examples of Yahoo!s Open Source activities

Discussion about Open Source and Open Innovation

Economics of abundance

Community as an Organization model Loyalty

Discussions

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Conclusion 1:

Information abundance implies a shift in expertise needs fromPeople who know thingsto People who can find things.

We see new trends in the way we managethe creation of insight

Transparency: less cost, more value than secrecy, sometimes.

The friction of finding and working with an external expert is lessthan with an internal expert


Changes in the Information Age

drive an ethos of Openness.

Yahoo! Inc


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Conclusion 2:

Leveraging existing commodity standard technology

Creating commodity standards where there are none

Creating an open platform to raise the level of technology for all

Design for diversity because you design by diversity


Strategic use of Open Source

creates beneficial platform effects.

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Conclusion 3:

Open Source requires working with people you dont control

Communities dont always share visions

Working with your competitors is tricky

Your employees are motivated by self-interest


Working with people you dont controlis hard

Get over it.

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Yahoo!s interest in Hadoop


Stuffyou

see

Yahoo!s Websites: News, Finance, Sports, Groups

OMG!, Shine, Mail, Answers, etc.

Stuffyou

do

ntsee

Yahoo!s Unique Value

Science + Art + Scale Content, Ads, Users Networks

Big Data Cloud Engine

Hadoop + other technologies

Commodity Web technology

PHP, Apache, Linux, etc.

OpenSource

OpenSource

Security

Proprietary

Value

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Yahoo!s interest in Javascript & Node.JS


Yahoo!s YUI Technology

Node.JS

Some verycompelling new

products from Yahoo!

Stuff that makes this work at scale

and complexity for the businessproblem we are solving for.

Some verycompelling new

products from others.

OpenSource

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc


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Analysis of Options

Keep the platform proprietary

Delaycompetitionfrom creatingknock-offproducts.

Be alone caringabout theplatformsdevelopment.

Open Source it


Helps getsharedinvestment inthe platform tohelp us all.

Forces our

product tocompete on fullexperience, nottiming.

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The three institutions of social control

Government Marketplace

Community


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Community Strength


Interest Fate Faith

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Developers loyalty

Information might be a commodity, but high-caliber developers are a

scarcity and attracting their loyalty is increasingly important.

Why do software developers love working on Open Source projects?

If you are the custodian of an Open Source project who do youreport to?

Is orchestrated dual-loyalty a problem in an environment oftransparency?

What is the money story?


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An indicator of Yahoo!s innovation

Yahoo! has about 14,000 employees and 1000 US issued patents.

There a 2321 unique inventor employees on Yahoo! patents

Two Yahoo employee share the record of holding the largestnumber of Yahoo! patents (57 each).

Yahoo! placed 9th on San Francisco Business Timeslist of

Largest Patent Recipients in the Greater Bay Area.

Yahoo! earliest patents date from 1997. Its 500thUS patent wasissued in 2009. Its 1000th was just issued recently a remarkablesurge in the past 3 years.



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Summary & Conclusion


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Open Source Think Tank

The Industrys Most Unique Event: Now in its 6th year, this bi-annual (Napa & Paris), invitation-only event brings the leading

global FOSS experts together to discuss the future of commercialopen source thinktank.olliancegroup.com

Global audience - 50% NA, 35% EMEA, 15% other

Real-world case study format

Spring 2011, Sonoma, CA

Theme: The Evolution of Business Models and the Intersection of Open Sourceand the Cloud

Fall 2011, Paris, France, Sept 20th & 21st

Theme: Open Source as an Innovation, Cultural and Organizational Catalyst

Concorde Opera Paris Hotel
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