[Fwd: foss applications book]

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Subject: foss applications book
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:16:32 -0800
From: Michael Dean <[email protected]>
To: Karim R. Lakhani <[email protected]>

I am currently working on a book that will present "best practices' open 
source software in the areas of business and commerce, or nonprofit 
organizations, and the impact of such software on overall organizational 
productivity after adaptation.  We are not concentrating on open source 
server systems software, like FreeBSD or Linux, nor on the "backoffice" 
apps such as Apache, PostgresQL, etc.but rather on the customer 
touchpoint and internal applications that small businesses can deploy to 
increase their productivity and position in the global marketplace, such 
as CRM/ERP,  social networking, collaboration and the like.  A chapter 
on security issues has been completed.

I invite any researcher or knowledgeable persons to submit drafts or 
outlines of chapters or portions of chapters.  For convenience we are 
using OpenOffice or MSWord along with O'Reilly's book template for ease 
of integration.   

I would appreciate any publicity within the research community you can 
extend to me.


Michael

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