 This whitepaper explores an SOA open source software strategy for the department of defense (DoD).
Many major software companies, including Oracle1, utilize Open Source software in their products. Most commercial software is actually blended software: software that is sold under a different licensing terms from Open Source, but is probably built using a variety of Open Source components. In this paper we ask two questions:
• Should the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) deploy substantial amounts of software
based on a community development model, in lieu of commercial software, in support
of their service-oriented architecture requirements?
• Is a community-based software development approach a viable strategy for large-scale
service-oriented architecture deployments, especially in the DoD?
