The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development ...
Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel. The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them." The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.
作者簡介：
Eric S. Raymond 軟件開源運動和黑客文化的代言人、宣傳家、大使。他的研究很好地解釋了分布式開源開發(fā)模式，Linux和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的成功已經(jīng)證明這種模式非常有效。他自己的開源軟件項目包括互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上使用最廣泛的電子郵件傳送程序之一。
譯者簡介：
衛(wèi)劍釩 北京大學(xué)信息科學(xué)技術(shù)學(xué)院計算機系理學(xué)博士。長期從事軟件研發(fā)和信息安全工作，有多年開源軟件編程經(jīng)驗，曾任Unix高級編程及信息安全培訓(xùn)講師，發(fā)表過多篇學(xué)術(shù)論文，著有《安全協(xié)議分析與設(shè)計》一書。