Commercial Open Source Software

Red Hat Italia is organizing an executive meeting in Milan, on the 28th of September 2010. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements with less cost and complexity. Continue reading ‘Red Hat Executive Meeting: Milan, 28 September 2010′

The Open Innovation Revolution - opensource.com kicks off a webinar series with a discussion on “The Open Innovation Revolution” with the author of the book, Stefan Lindegaard.
Wed, Sep 1, 2010 1:00 PM EDT

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A little blog post to tell you more about what we at SOS Open Source are working on this summer.

Here’s what we are working on right now:

• Open Source Project Management tools. STATUS: we are currently developing a prototype for our customer based on our tool of choice (Redmine). We plan to ship the final customized version in September-mid October. We hopefully be able to share our plug-ins and enhancements before the end of October. (read more at SOS Open Source.)

ECM as a Platform – A Foundation for Content Applications - Join this webinar to hear more about the limitations of “suite” thinking and how a platform can be the foundation to achieving true Enterprise Content Management.
August 24, 2010, 11 AM EDT. Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, Global Knowledge, Nuxeo, Zend’

Olliance Group and DLA Piper are organizing the 3rd Europe Open Source Think Tank 2010, to be held September 28-29 in Paris, France at the Hôtel Golden Tulip Royal Garden Champs-Elysées. The event will present selected case studies focusing on the growing commercial maturity and complexity of open source and the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS.

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Black Duck Software Announces Legal Certification Program, Certified Legal Professional Directory - Black Duck announced the availability of a certification program for legal professionals with clients involved in acquiring technology companies.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Summer links 05-10-2010: BlackDuck, Hippo, SugarCRM’

Introducing Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) - An introduction about how to use Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) to create high-quality, full-featured video playback experiences.
Tuesday, August 3, 10:00 AM US/Pacific

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One year ago, talking about open source adoption in Italian Public Administrations, I reported some SourceForge traffic distribution numbers, showing that Italy was at the fourth place after Brasil.

Italy before was used to be at the third place, but the impact of open source in Brazil was and actually is, definitely stronger. Let’s have a look at the big picture, and how Europe and BRIC countries are today, as of the 29th of July 2010.

Continue reading ‘SourceForge Traffic Distribution: A Picture is Worth a Thousands Words’

Resources Combine GWOS Monitoring With Webmetrics Web Site Services - Join this webcast to learn how Webmetrics and GWOS are coming together to deliver monitoring for all of your assets on a single console.
August 4, 10 am PST

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Packt is about to launch the 2010 Open Source award - now at its fifth edition, formerly known as Open Source CMS Awards - an award organized to encourage, support, recognize, and reward Open Source projects selected by a panel of judges and Packt website visitors. This year they have a prize fund of $247,000 spread across six categories.

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