Pandora’s Box … from Nokia!
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Finnish cellular manufacturing giant Nokia has been experimenting internally with a cell phone based port of the popular Apache open source web server. Being both a technologist and a gadget buff, this naturally piqued my curiosity. However, this is a road frought with challenges. Of course, it sounds like really cool stuff, and I suppose from a purely hackeristic standpoint, it is. But I don’t think it will prove to be a viable solution for a wealth of reasons.
Historically, one of the biggest knocks on open source software has been its lack of presence in the enterprise software space. We generally define “enterprise software” as software that solves some sort of problem faced by the enterprise (the business). A rapidly evolving product known as SugarCRM is single-handedly shattering that stigma, and putting some serious enterprise-grade CRM (customer relationship management) capabilities into the hands of the everyman, or everycompany, as the case may be.
