Enterprise Open Source

31 Jan, 2007

The Open Source Heat List – January 2007 Edition

Posted by: admin In: Trends

More and more open source software are maturing, proposing now competitive solutions to traditional closed source vendors. More and more closed source vendors… feel the heat :-) .

The following table give an overview of Closed source leader for each market segment and their open source counterparts. The color gives the temperature :-) , the arrow gives the trend.

Market Segment
Closed-Source Leader
Open Source Leaders
Heat Level
Application Servers BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle Application Server JBoss Application Server, Apache Geronimo, ObjectWeb JoNAS, Apache Tomcat
Server Operating System Windows 2000 Serveur, Windows 2003, IBM AIX, HP UX, SCO Unix Red Hat Enterprise Server, Suse, Debian, Mandriva
up
VOIP Cisco, Alcatel Asterisk
up
Portal Websphere Portal, Plumtree, Oracle Portal, Microsoft Sharepoint Jetspeed 2, JBOSS Portal, Liferay, Exo platform, Plone, Drupal, Joomla!
up
Office Productivity Microsoft Office Open Office 2.0
up
Reporting Tools CrystalReports JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT 2.x, openBI, iReport
up
ERP SAP R3, Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft, Agresso, Navision Compiere, ofBiz
CMS Interwoven, Stellent, Vignette, Sharepoint 2006 Typo 3, Zope/Plone, SPIP, AGORA, eZ Publish, Drupal, Joomla!
right
Messaging Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes Open Xchange, Open Groupware, Zimbra, Postfix, Sendmail
up
Group Productivity Documentum e-room, Windows Sharepoint Services, IBM Workspace activeCollab, dotProject, eGroupware, phpGroupware
up
Business Intelligence Business Objects, Cognos, Datastage Pentaho, Bizgres
up
Virtualization Platform VMware Xen 3.x
up
ESB Suite & Application Integration Sonic Software, IBM Websphere Integration, BEA Weblogic Integration ServiceMix, Mule
up
DMS Documentum, Filenet Alfresco
up
Desktop Operating System Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista Suse 10, Mandriva, Linspire, Ubuntu
up
Personnal Productivity MindManager FreeMind
right
CRM Siebel, GoldMine, MS CRM, Selligent Sugar
right
e-Commerce Suite Sterling Commerce OSCommerce, Interchange
right
Directory Services Microsoft Active Directory OpenLDAP
right
Web Analytics Webtrends, Google Analytics AWstats, phpMyvisites, BBClone
down

6 Responses to "The Open Source Heat List – January 2007 Edition"

2 | Keith Holloway

June 21st, 2006 at 6:02 am

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What about collaborative project management software?
dotproject is fantasic.

3 | Mark Gullit

June 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 am

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Good point. I will add dotProject, eGroupware, phpProjekt and phpGroupware. They fight against whom? I see documentum e-room, IBM Workplace… Do you see other ones?

Mark

5 | Michael S. Scherotter

February 1st, 2007 at 2:26 am

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Can you please explain what the various arrows mean?
A legend would help.
Thanks,
Michael

6 | romi

November 24th, 2008 at 12:28 am

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Where is Sql Server Reporting Services under the market segment in reporting tools?

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