“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Few days ago I joined the open source vendor debate remarking the importance of resolving the name confusion in favor of customers, and Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile shout-out saying that open core offers best opportunity for community and commercial Success.
Lines blurring between open source and proprietary vendors apparently invigorate the debate. I want to take the chance here to classify production model in function of the nature of firm-community relationship.
Opengear, a leading provider of next-generation console server solutions, yesterday announced its record order bookings, largely due to its (open source) channel, according to a report.
Opengear generating 75 percent of its revenue via partners, recently has put in place a very aggressive partnering program offering channel partners 25% margins, to further speed out-of-band management solutions sales.
Todd Rychecky, VP of Sales at Opengear, told me more about the company, and how power management and an open source approach to console servers has helped Opengear achieve record sale.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Console Servers: Opengear goes well and emphasises Channel Importance’
The Venice International University, the Digital Media Metadistrict and Sun Microsystems will host the “Open Source Offering in Italy: an Analysis of an evolving Sector” conference, on the 10th of March, in Venice.
At the VEnice GAteway for Science and Technologies (VEGA) will meet up Italian academic researchers, entrepreneurs and open source community members to discuss research findings and how they fit into field experiences.
Registrations are now open, see you there!
OSOR website today launched a new section to allow users to add blog entries, create and participate in discussions or share documents and cases and assist in creating a knowledge base on their community.
Continue reading ‘European Open Source Repository: OSOR goes into the Wild 2.0′
OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 Released - PortableApps.com announced the release of OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 in Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.
How to install OpenOffice.org 3 on Ubuntu 8.10 - Ubuntu’s default is OpenOffice 2.4, learn how to upgrade to version 3.
Linguist - A Python extension aimed at providing an easy way for users to create a list of new candidate words to the existing spellcheck dictionary for their language.
Sonatype, the Maven company founded by his creator Jason van Zyl, recently released “Maven: The Definitive Guide“, a book available for download as a PDF and as a print book through O’Reilly.
Mark de Visser, the new appointed Sonatype’s CEO, answered few questions about the book and how it helps to grow the Maven community.
Web designers, photographers and graphic designers loving the Adobe Photoshop Product family - a collection of graphics editing programs developed by Adobe Systems to create and edit images - should have a look at its open source alternative, GIMP.
The lack of open source vision by the Italian government, along with attention paid by Obama to open source, brought my attention back to the importance Open Source Governance.
I want to strive for open source adoption by national and local governments. I want to take the opportunity here to share some thoughts about why a FOSS governance is needed, and how we could accomplish the goal to use open source software to develop innovative initiatives.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part III)’
Inviting OpenOffice.org users and friends to vote for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2009 , and hopefully choose Ovieto, I forgot to mention that using your openoffice.org e-mail address for voting is MANDATORY. Otherwise, your vote WILL NOT BE COUNTED.
The voting closes on Friday 27th, vote it now!
Coverity - a company specialized in software integrity products and testing services - today announced the publication of application architecture data from over 2,500 popular open source software projects on www.scan.coverity.com.
All data is provided as an extension of Coverity’s work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a Creative Commons license, and individual developers and open source vendors can freely benefit from it.
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