Comments on: About Making Valuable the Open Source Long Tail http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: OSS Watch team blog » Blog Archive » Why is Open Development Governance important? http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-583675 OSS Watch team blog » Blog Archive » Why is Open Development Governance important? Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:27:10 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-583675 [...] even harder when you have to balance the demands of multiple upstream components, Roberto Galoppini observes: OpenLogic scaled federated support to hundreds of components and, by focusing on enterprise [...] [...] even harder when you have to balance the demands of multiple upstream components, Roberto Galoppini observes: OpenLogic scaled federated support to hundreds of components and, by focusing on enterprise [...]

]]> By: Stormy http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528851 Stormy Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:24:17 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528851 There are two other factors to consider here: 1 - The code for all those projects is open, so given the right expertise and enough time, anyone could figure out what is going on. 2 - Most of the people that work on those long tail projects are available via mailing lists and email. It's much easier to maintain relationships with developers on 400 projects, like OpenLogic does, than it is to support them in house. There are two other factors to consider here:

1 - The code for all those projects is open, so given the right expertise and enough time, anyone could figure out what is going on.

2 - Most of the people that work on those long tail projects are available via mailing lists and email. It’s much easier to maintain relationships with developers on 400 projects, like OpenLogic does, than it is to support them in house.

]]> By: Supporting the long tail of open source | Computer Technology and Others http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528511 Supporting the long tail of open source | Computer Technology and Others Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:10:57 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528511 [...] context of this was an OSCON meeting which Roberto attended where the Open Solutions Alliance indicated that most open source customers use at least one product [...] [...] context of this was an OSCON meeting which Roberto attended where the Open Solutions Alliance indicated that most open source customers use at least one product [...]

]]> By: Open Source mobile edition http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528467 Open Source mobile edition Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:07:24 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/08/11/about-making-valuable-the-open-source-long-tail/#comment-528467 [...] context of this was an OSCON meeting which Roberto attended where the Open Solutions Alliance indicated that most open source customers use at least one product [...] [...] context of this was an OSCON meeting which Roberto attended where the Open Solutions Alliance indicated that most open source customers use at least one product [...]

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