BBA3551 Columbia Southern University Open Source Software MIS Presentation Research an open source software project. Examples of open source projects are l

BBA3551 Columbia Southern University Open Source Software MIS Presentation Research an open source software project. Examples of open source projects are listed on page 123 of your textbook.
You are not restricted to the open source projects listed on page 123; you may research one of your own choosing that
interests you.
In MS PowerPoint, create a presentation with slides that describe the open source software and how it works. Discuss the
role this open source software has in management information systems.
Remember, management information systems is the management and use of information systems that help organizations
achieve their strategies (page 10 of your textbook).
Your PowerPoint must have a minimum of four slides. Be sure to use the 7X7 rule in PowerPoint: no more than 7 lines per
slide and no more than 7 words per line. Use of images, graphics, and diagrams is required. Be sure to include your
sources on a references slide in APA format. Q3 Is open source software a viable alternative?
To answer this question, you first need to know something about the open source movement
and process. Most computer historians would agree that Richard Matthew Stallman is the
father of the movement. In 1983, he developed a set of tools called GNU (a self-referential
acronym meaning GNU Not Unix) for creating a free Unix-like operating system. Stallman
made many other contributions to open source, including the GNU general public
license (GPL) agreement, one of the standard license agreements for open source
software. Stallman was unable to attract enough developers to finish the free Unix system,
but continued making other contributions to the open source movement.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds, working in Helsinki, began work on another version of Unix, using
some of Stallman’s tools. That version eventually became Linux, the high-quality and very
popular operating system discussed previously.
The Internet proved to be a great asset for open source, and many open source projects
became successful, including:
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• Open Office (a Microsoft Office look-alike)
• Firebox (a browser)
• MySQL (a DBMS, see Chapter 5)
• Apache (a Web server, see Chapter 6)
• Ubuntu (a Windows-like desktop operating system)
• Android (a mobile-device operating system)
• Cassandra (a NoSQL DBMS, see Chapter 5)
• Hadoop (a BigData processing system, see Chapter 9)

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