How much effort is spent in business adapting users to productivity tools never designed for team use?
Simply put, collaboration and dissemination tools should adapt to user needs easily and cost effectively. Open Source software can do this and more.
Here are some 'commodity functionality' or 'infrastructure' areas where open source has pushed the envelope through rapid innovation and feature development.
- Social Networking Framworks
- Content Management Systems - CMS
- Document Versioning - Subversion, Git & Bazaar
- Windows Network Integration - Samba + Groupware
- Mobile Connectivity
- Video Conferencing
- Podcasts
- Secure IM & Real Time Messaging
