Studii de caz - 8 decembrie 2011

Studii de caz - 8 decembrie 2011

RED HAT

Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's Open Source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. Red Hat was founded in 1994 by visionary entrepreneurs Bob Young and Marc Ewing.

De citit

• About Red Hat
• Why Open Source?
• What is Red Hat's Business Model?
• How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry

Intrebari:

• Ce este modelul de afaceri Open Source? Cum obtine venituri Red Hat ?
• Care sunt avantajele si dezavantajele modelului Open Source in comparative cu dezvoltarea de software comercial (Commercial Software Development) sustinut de Microsoft?

WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link. Wikipedia is a project of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

De citit

• About Wikipedia
• Wikipedia, wikia and free culture by Jimmy Wales
• Look it up (in Wikipedia): Wikipedia
• Wikipedia in eight words
• Wikipedia statistics
• The Wikipedia Community
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:FAQ
• Wikipedia:Criticisms
• Criticism of Wikipedia
• Why Wikipedia is not so great
• Internet encyclopaedias go head to head by Jim Giles (writing in the journal Nature)
• Fatally Flawed: Refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal Nature by Encyclopædia Britannica
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott

Intrebari

• Care sunt punctele tari si punctele slabe in modalitatea de distribuire a cunostintelor de catre Wikipedia? Cum se compara Wikipedia cu o enciclopedie traditionala? In care ati avea mai multa incredere din punct de vedere al acuratetii informatiei?
• Ar trebui Wikipedia sa permita postarea de material de catre contributori anonimi? Care sunt avantajele si dezavantajele?
• Experti (si nu numai) in anumite domnii pot avea pareri diferite asupra unui anumit subiect. Cum mediaza Wikipedia disputele asupra subiectelor controversate sau sensibile?
• La sfirsitul lui 2005 existau peste 4000 de contributori active la Wikipedia (cu peste 100 de contributii pe luna) si peste 27000 indivizi cu cel putin 5 contributii pe luna. Ce factor ar putea explica motivarea si dedicarea unui asemenea mare numar de voluntari?