The next OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon) will be held in Beijing, China. Bratislava, Budapest, Dundalk and last but not least our beloved Orvieto, have lost.
Beijing by harukwan
Despite the biggest concentration of developers appears to be in Europe, the OOoCon will take place in Beijing, since 597 persons voted for the Chinese location.
Asking my Linkedin contacts to vote for Orvieto I got many positive feedback, and as a matter of fact Italy is the second best, with 126 votes.
I wish to thank all OpenOffice.org users who vote for Italy, maybe we’ll manage to win next year.. 
Technorati Tags: OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice Conference, OOoCon 2008, Orvieto, Beijing
Matt Asay went skying with Fabrizio Capobianco and explains the real market for Funambol.
Undoubtedly, Funambol could make money from enterprises, but why? It gains a great deal of value from this part of its community (read: device support, among other things), which it can then package up and sell to a different market (the service provider), with different add-on features that only the service provider wants or needs. It’s a very clean split between the two markets.
I wrote few times about Funambol’s “pyramidal market“, and I am really happy to read that Funambol is cash-flow positive, and I am looking forward to talk with Fabrizio next week at the Open Source in Mobile conference.
Technorati Tags: Commercial Open Source, open business, business model, fabriziocapobianco, funambol, OSIM
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