Open Source Enterprise Solutions: Developing an E-Business Strategy

By Gunnison Carbone

This book shows IT professionals and developers that the open source approach can offer flexible, reliable, and secure enterprise solutions. Written by the founders of the Open3.org open source movement, the book provides a roadmap to all critical components of an open source e-business infrastructure. Through detailed coverage of Enterprise Applications (EA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) as well as Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Customer (B2C) software, the authors explain how to leverage open source solutions to bring business processes online, integrate disparate applications and databases across the enterprise, and ensure secure, efficient e-business transactions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471417440
• ISBN13: 9780471417446
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.8" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A good introductory book on open source and ebusiness

This book provides a solid introduction to using open source software for ebusiness. The authors have a strong fundamental grasp of what ebusiness is, something that many so-called "ebusiness experts" fail at. They describe ebusiness as 5 interlocking categories: enterprise apps, internal and external integration, and business & consumer e-commerce. They then describe how open source software can be used in these categories.The book is written for technical types, but really more for managers than developers. I'd like to have seen some code in this book, but nonetheless it did give me a good idea on where to begin looking and using open source software.The chapters on integration and e-commerce are very good, with lots of details that many programmers would find useful. The authors also seem to have a good grasp of the state of open source and what types of decisions technical folks need to make when evaluating the software.A good book if you want to find out what this whole open source and linux thing is and how to go about using it for your projects.