Executive Summary
No man is an island, and no software operates on its own. Even stand-alone products run in an operating system environment. Integrating a new software product into the existing software infrastructure is one of the most important—and challenging—tasks that an IT organization must address with a new software product.
Integrating open source products can be even more challenging due to their unique characteristics. This chapter outlines the challenges in integrating open source products into an existing software stack and the options an organization has available to reduce the risk associated with the integration. It addresses the reasons why commercial software vendors often delay creating integrations with open source products, ...
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