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	June 29, 2005 Open Source Collaboration Platforms: Give It Five More Years by Erica Driver with Connie Moore, Lucy Fossner

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Executive Summary

Open source alternatives to leading collaboration platforms appeal to small businesses and other organizations with tight IT budgets — or to large organizations that have the IT skills and resources needed to maintain solutions in-house and have a business reason for doing so. But open source collaboration platforms are still relatively immature and present a high degree of risk. Their viability could improve in the next five years if a commercial software vendor steps up to play the role of open source project coordinator and integrator.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Open Source Collaboration Offer A Low-Cost, Flexible Alternative
• But Today's Options Are Risky
• Open Source Collaboration Platforms Will Mature Slowly
• Success Requires A Project Coordinator And Integrator

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