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An open source management system has been unveiled by SourceLabs. The provider of open source systems and support to large enterprises designed the new platform to centralize and manage open source software code so that organizations can realize the full benefits of open source while mitigating risks.

 

Large enterprises can use SourceLabs’ platform to improve compliance, promote the prudent usage of open source and realize the tremendous operational efficiencies of open source technologies.

 

“Open source has been widely adopted throughout large organizations organically, typically bypassing traditional controls,” said Byron Sebastian, CEO of SourceLabs, in a statement. “This exposes businesses to unknown and often unnecessary security, operational, and legal risks.”

 

Sebastian continued: “We designed the Open Source Management System to make it easy for large companies to manage open source software usage in a way that fits in with their policies and best practices, while at the same time encouraging and promoting the sanctioned usage of open source.”

 

SourceLabs works with customers who are using hundreds, or even thousands of open source projects for applications running from internal datacenter tools. Gartner (News - Alert) projects that through 2009, Linux-based mission-critical IT data center deployments will result in more than $2.2 billion of the $11 billion revenue from servers shipped.

 

OSMS is designed to address this market by offering a solution that resolves security, compliance, legal and architectural concerns around the usage of open source by centralizing distributions, providing a platform for sharing information and enforcing policies, as well as delivering continuous updates on potential risk areas.

 

The development of the system was a result of collaboration with large, early-adopter institutions who are leaders in their vertical markets. As a result, the system addresses the concerns around open source software held by legal staff, architects, security officers, development managers, operations managers and software engineers.

 

By introducing a common solution for all stakeholders across the enterprise, OSMS helps companies to develop, implement and succeed with a coherent, pragmatic strategy for open source adoption.

 

“Open source development and production environments are a fast moving target, and with increasing strategic commitment to open source, enterprises will need lightweight management and reporting tools enabling collaboration between different stakeholders,” said James Governor, Principal Analyst at RedMonk, in a statement. “SourceLabs is targeting that opportunity with its Open Source Management System.”

 

Open source is one of those tricky areas that is a must-have for some and considered an intense security risk for others. However, the benefits that open source can provide are too numerous to simply write-off as being too risky.

 

SourceLabs, with its OSMS has recognized the conflicts that enterprises face when considering open source applications and addresses these concerns while also providing the security measures that stakeholders demand. The OSMS solution will provide the enterprise with the competitive tools that they need, without compromising on the securities that they demand.

 

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