Review: Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise

Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise by Simon Phipps has two running themes, Classification of communities around open source projects and criticism of Open Core business model. Keeping the theme, title is little misleading even though Phipps has covered the themes in very apt manner.

Phipps also touches copyright and patent issues w.r.t. open source but if not in depth. I am certainly looking for a comprehensive book on issues shrouding open source like abandoned projects, an open source project becoming closed due to variety of reasons, forking of projects due to various reasons, support of open source usage in enterprise environment, etc.

Book Review: The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice)

Book Review: The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice) by Jono Bacon: Publisher- O'Reilly: ISBN- 13: 978-0596156718

The Art of community building is a book from practitioner. Though Jono’s book talks talk about community focused around open source project but his experiences are readily transferable to any form of community. Book takes reader one step at a time to exhaustive understanding of on line community creation and maintenance. The ideas and practical advices elaborated in book are applicable to not only online and open source community but to non on line, business oriented communities as well. For any community manager this book is bible. Great book to lay foundation of a thriving community.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author. I got electronic format of book from publisher for review.

Further reading: There are several books on similar topic. Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards , Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last, Online Communities Handbook: Building your business and brand on the Web, Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities, 18 Rules of Community Engagement: A Guide for Building Relationships and Connecting With Customers Online, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.

One can get more information about book and related topics from:
1. Book’s web presence http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
2. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Community-Building-Participation/dp/05961567153.
Publisher -- Oreilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596157234.do 4. Jono’s site: http://www.jonobacon.org

5. Review ( 1st edition): http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/bremner-rvw

Book Review: Open Source SOA by Jeff Davis

Book Review: Open Source SOA by Jeff Davis: Publisher- Manning: ISBN- 13: 978-1-933988-54-2

Open Source SOA is written as collection of short tutorials on various tools which can fit into SOA.

Open Source SOA is essentially divided into two parts – part one, in which author talk about SOA and its philosophy. Part two covers some of the open source tools which are talked about in part one. Author has tried to cover too many tools in one short book which is equal to denied justice to each tool.

This book is good to start with on the tools discussed in this book.

This book covers

1. Service Component Architecture
2. Apache Tuscany
3. jBoss jBPM
4. Esper
5. Apache Synapse
6. jBoss Drool (jRule)

Jeff and Manning are maintaining books web presence at http://www.manning.com/davis, I hope he will take care of the different views and uncharted topics in future.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.

Further reading:

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Book’s web presence http://www.manning.com/davis/
2. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Soa-Jeff-Davis/dp/1933988541
3. http://www.keith-chapman.org/2009/03/open-source-soa-platform-everything-you.html
4. Sun’s Open Source SOA eBook: http://www.propelmg.com/sunfed/soa_ebook/inside.php
5. http://soa.dzone.com/articles/wso2-open-source-soa-cloud