{"id":63,"date":"2004-11-04T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2004-11-04T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T17:51:50","slug":"ups-delivers-with-open-source-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/ups-delivers-with-open-source-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS Delivers with Open Source Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a headline from an InformationWeek story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51202377&amp;tid=5979\">UPS Unsure Open Source Can Deliver<\/a>. But UPS uses open source widely in production environments- including Ant, Apache, JBoss, Linux, and Struts. Its just the headline that is out of whack.<\/p>\n<p>So i thought i would post my own. The negative sub-editing is a little odd given UPS&#8217; starring role in Info Week&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51202377&amp;tid=5979\">Linux goes Mainstream<\/a> story. As an ex journalist myself, i know that subs can miss the point &#8211; so what <i>is<\/i> the key to the story?<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gray, UPS&#8217;s applications manager for architectural services, explains that decisions are based on functionality, not religion. Gray is kind of like a mini Linus at UPS &#8211; a benevolent dictator for open source adoption or contribution- code neither enters, nor leaves, without his say so. He has a legal team to examine open source license issues, and is evidently establishing some clear best practices in open source software governance.<\/p>\n<p>Gray makes it clear he doesn&#8217;t think open source is free&#8211;its just another operating environment, with associated costs. But he evidently has a bias in its favor&#8211;according to the story he uses Mozilla and OpenOffice at home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a headline from an InformationWeek story &#8211; UPS Unsure Open Source Can Deliver. But UPS uses open source widely in production environments- including Ant, Apache, JBoss, Linux, and Struts. Its just the headline that is out of whack. So i thought i would post my own. The negative sub-editing is a little odd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}