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Could open-source projects offer corporate benefits? If Accenture can, why not open source?
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- by Calitalieh February 12, 2009 3:09 PM PST
- Interesting idea, especially given your observation about what a firm like Accenture actually provides (I know, I was a Partner at the firm).
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(4 Comments)Along those line, here is another question for you: why is it that large consulting firms have no pro-active, strategic, or even operational capabilities/IP in the OSS arena? Most of them still derive over 60% of their SI fees from SAP and Oracle implementations; a competing interest when facing a CIO who needs sound advice. Why not have a "suitability model" or some capabilities that can identify, and then renovate proprietary code over to custom or packaged OSS? Why not use their development factories (that are currently running idle) for large scale renovation?
The F500 still turn to the Big 5 (or whats left of them) for council. There must be an executive at one of them who can see that the current model is unsustainable, and that "he who leads the change will benefit the most." Needless to say, I didn't win that battle.