In balancing profit making with open source research and development, your organization makes short term tactical decisions in development, testing, and release engineering that may come to cost you significantly down the road. A lack of standard packaging and deployment across heterogenous environments makes the problem worse. When it comes to community and industry leading open standards on packaging, installing, and maintaining an open source architecture, the Fedora Project and Red Hat provide leadership, practices, and tools that clear the way for your ISV to succeed. In this talk, learn about why your ISV needs to take the time right now to prepare yourself for a long term open source future.