Lisog
Encyclopedia
Lisog is a German
open source
non profit business development organization founded in 2005 in Stuttgart
. Lisog has about 120 members (April 2011) and branch offices in Berlin
, Hamburg
, Vienna
, Zurich
, Palo Alto and Toronto
. The members are providers, user companies, and scientific partners like universities.
In 2011 Liog was merged with the LIVE association. The new organization is called Open Source Business Alliance.
Lisog helps companies to develop an open source
based business strategy. Many providers of the Lisog open source stack had a proprietary offering only.
The Lisog cloud initiative brings this stack into several clouds. The infrastructure partners in Germany (IaaS
) are Noris Network and Fujitsu
. Lisog works together with the Open Cloud Initiative initiated by Sam Johnston to provide a full open source cloud enterprise stack. The main goal here is to avoid a vendor lock-in
for users.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
non profit business development organization founded in 2005 in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. Lisog has about 120 members (April 2011) and branch offices in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Palo Alto and Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. The members are providers, user companies, and scientific partners like universities.
In 2011 Liog was merged with the LIVE association. The new organization is called Open Source Business Alliance.
Goals
The main goal of Lisog is the promotion of solutions based on open source software. The Lisog open source stack initiative brings together isolated modules and providers to a unified enterprise stack.Lisog helps companies to develop an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
based business strategy. Many providers of the Lisog open source stack had a proprietary offering only.
The Lisog cloud initiative brings this stack into several clouds. The infrastructure partners in Germany (IaaS
IAAS
IAAS can refer to the following:*Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, British professional body renamed 1993 as the Association of Building Engineers* Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, institute of Tribhuvan University, Nepal...
) are Noris Network and Fujitsu
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
. Lisog works together with the Open Cloud Initiative initiated by Sam Johnston to provide a full open source cloud enterprise stack. The main goal here is to avoid a vendor lock-in
Vendor lock-in
In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products and services, unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs...
for users.
Board
The board of Lisog consists of 12 members:- Dr. Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer, IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Deutschland Entwicklung (Chairman) - Holger Dyroff, NovellNovellNovell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise...
(Deputy Cairman) - Thomas Uhl, Topalis Holding GmbH (Deputy Chairman)
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar, Technische Universität München
- Henriette Baumann, integratio GmbH
- Karl-Eugen Binder, Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung
- Martin Jähn, Unternehmensberatung Martin Jähn & Partner GmbH
- Niels Mache, struktur AG
- Jens Ziemann, Red HatRed HatRed Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
- Elmar Geese, Tarent Gmbh
- Peter Ganten, Univention GmbH
- Rico Barth, Cape IT GmbH
Lisog open source stack
| Component | Provider | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Desktop Environment | RedHat, Topalis, Univention | |
| Web Portal | RedHat, Tarent, OpenSAGA | |
| CRM Customer relationship management Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,... /Project management Project management Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value... |
Projectile, Information Desire Software | Customer relation management, project, program and portfolio management |
| ERP Enterprise resource planning Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application... |
Nuclos (Novabit), HeliumV HeliumV Helium V is an open source ERP suite. It has been developed by Helium V IT-Solutions GmbH in Austria starting in 2005. The industry of initial focus has been electronic manufacturing. The targeted customers are small and medium-sized companies... |
Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ITSM | OTRS OTRS OTRS, an initialism for Open-source Ticket Request System, is a free and open-source trouble ticket system software package that a company, organization, or other entity can use to assign tickets to incoming queries and track further communications about them... |
IT Service management |
| GW | Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Open-Xchange Server is an open source project sponsored by Open-Xchange, Inc., developing collaboration software; i.e. email, calendaring, address book, etc. Product offerings based on Open-Xchange Server are marketed under the brand of Open-Xchange Server and various other names, e.g. 1&1... , VIPcom, Zarafa |
Groupware |
| PM | OnePoint | Project management |
| PLM Product lifecycle management In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal... |
OSSWORX | Product Lifecycle Management |
| BI Business intelligence Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.... |
JasperSoft | Business Intelligence |
| DMS | agorum core Agorum core agorum core is a free Open-Source Enterprise Content Management system by agorum Software GmbH from Germany. One of the main features is the Document-Network-Share. With that the documents within the ECM are shown as a normal network share... |
Document management |
| BPM Business process management Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to... |
SOPERA BPM | BPMN, BPEL, BPEL4PEOPLE, Process server and monitor |
| Database Database A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information... |
EnterpriseDB, Ingres, Postgres, GraphDB | Datenbanken |
| Application Server Application server An application server is a software framework that provides an environment in which applications can run, no matter what the applications are or what they do... |
JBoss JBoss (company) JBoss is a division of Red Hat, Inc.. It specializes in open-source middleware software.The company profits from a service-based business model. JBoss employ a Professional Open Source business model where the core developers of projects make a living and offer their services... , Sopera ASF |
JEE Application Server, eclipseSOA WebService AppServer |
| ESB Enterprise service bus An enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture... |
JBoss JBoss (company) JBoss is a division of Red Hat, Inc.. It specializes in open-source middleware software.The company profits from a service-based business model. JBoss employ a Professional Open Source business model where the core developers of projects make a living and offer their services... , Sopera ASF, Mule Mule (software) Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies... |
Enterprise Service Bus |
| Application Integration | Sopera DI | Drag & Drop ETL Data integration components |
| OpenMAPI | Topalis, Wilken, Zarafa | E-Mail, Groupware |
| e-mail archive | Benno | SMTP-based e-mail archive |
| VOIP Voice over IP Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet... |
Asterisk, Cowic | Voice over IP |
| Linux/Hypervisor | Novell, RedHat, debian (credativ), UCS (Univention) | operating systems |
| File sharing | filespots | File sharing and file converter |
| iFolder IFolder iFolder is an open source application, developed by Novell, Inc., intended to allow cross-platform file sharing across computer networks.iFolder operates on the concept of shared folders, where a folder is marked as shared and the contents of the folder are then synchronized to other computers over... |
Novell Novell Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise... |
File sharing in the cloud |
| Online Storage | RisingTide Systems | iSCSI ISCSI In computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage... , FCoE Fibre Channel over Ethernet Fibre Channel over Ethernet is an encapsulation of Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet networks. This allows Fibre Channel to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks while preserving the Fibre Channel protocol... , FC Storage server, based on LIO Target LIO Target LIO Target is a multiprotocol SCSI target for Linux. It currently supports fabric modules for iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FCoE and InfiniBand . LIO went upstream into Linux with kernel version 2.6.38, and is becoming the standard unified block storage target in Linux... |
| HA | Pacemaker (LinBit/RedHat/Novell) | High availability, data mirroring |
| Backup Backup In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup.... |
SEP Sesam | Backup and recovery |
| Archiv | Grau Data AG | Longterm archive OPENARCHIVE |
| Hardware Hardware Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores.... |
Pyramid, Boston Deutschland | Hardware for Cloud center and appliances |