Why Your Open Source Project Could Be Costing You Money

Why your open source project

could be costing you money?

There are many benefits to working with open source software.

CustomizabilityCollaborative development environment

Interoperability InnovationFree licenses

Frequently, companies choose OSS

because there are no

acquisitions costs.

However, acquisitions costs are easy to calculate. What

about the other costs associated with open

source software?

When choosing a software When choosing a software solution, itsolution, it’’s important s important to consider the total to consider the total cost cost of ownershipof ownership..

This can include…

50%50% hardware savings over open source ESB1

Source: 1The Total Economic Impact of IBM Integration Bus, Forrester Research, May 20142IBM WebSphere

Application Server V8.5 vs. Jboss

Enterprise Application Platform V6  TCO Analysis , Prolifics,  

51%51%hardware savings over open

source application server2

Commercial software can offer…

Infrastructure costs.

When it comes to oss, only the software is free. You’ll still need

on-premise hardware or a cloud solution in order

to deploy your apps.

With OSS, you’re responsible for enhancing and customizing code to meet your needs. This means training your staff, allocating man hours, and eating the opportunity costs of time that could be spent elsewhere.

Did you know?

JBoss

EAP customers spend

an average

2xmore than IBM customers on training costs1

Administration costs.

Source: 1IBM WebSphere

Application Server V8.5 vs. Jboss

Enterprise Application Platform V6  TCO Analysis , Prolifics,  

Source: 1IBM WebSphere

Application Server V8.5 vs. Jboss

Enterprise Application Platform V6  TCO Analysis , Prolifics,  

Did you know?

JBoss

EAP customers spend

an of average

1.8MIn support cost

over 5 year1

Maintenance and support costs.If you’re a paying customer, a commercial software company will want to quickly help you resolve issues. With OSS, you’re reliant on the community to help you resolve issues, or you’ll have to pay for support separately.

With OSS, it’s up to your team to install updates and make security fixes. If you don’t do this diligently, you may be leaving yourself vulnerable, and/or paying substantially more to fix security issues later.

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Security costs.

. . . . .

. . . . .

Average downtime cost per hour, by industry

Source: ITG Value Proposition for Siebel Enterprise Applications, Business case for IBM System z & Robert Frances Group

Downtime costs

What happens when your app goes down? Downtime is money and once again, you’re stuck fixing the problem yourself.

When you add all of these costs together, your developer’s open source project could actually be costing you more

money

than using commercial SW.

So, what’s the solution?

We’ve got one for you: Open Source Plus.

So, what’s the solution?

We combine the best of both worlds, innovating on top of an open source ecosystem to give you the enterprise-class service and functionality that your business needs.

Open Source Plus is IBM’s approach to open source software.

Here’s how it works:

Here’s how it works:

IBM selects the best of OSS for use in its own commercial products.

Here’s how it works:

IBM selects the best of OSS for use in its own commercial products.

Then, we innovate on top of it, delivering enterprise-class performance, scalability, security and support.

Here are just a few examples of the Here are just a few examples of the Open Source Plus approachOpen Source Plus approach……

Liberty Leverages 100+ Open

Source Packages

Leverages 70+Open Source Packages

Leverages 40+ Open Source Packages

Leverages 100+ Open Source Packages

Want to learn more about IBM’s approach to open source?

Dig deeper:

The Total Economic Impact of IBM Integration Bus

The Total Economic Impact of Migrating from Open Source to WebSphere

Application Server

TCO Analysis: IBM WebSphere

Application Server V8.5 vs.

JBoss

Enterprise Application Platform V6

Or visit: ibm.com/opensourceplus