Commercial Open Source Software

The Linux Foundation today announced that credativ - a consulting and service company employing 45 people in its offices in the UK, Germany and Canada - has become member of the Linux Foundation.

As Linux continues to grow in popularity in Europe, companies like credativ become increasingly vital to the Linux ecosystem. credativ’s contributions to the LSB are especially important as Linux grows internationally and different distributions emerge.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, in commenting the news.

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The new Ferrari website went live today at 8 am (CET), just in time for the start of the 2009 F1 season.

Kudos to my friend Giuseppe Cunetta, head of new media  at Ferrari, for the great job, apparently a showcase of SharePoint 2007, not much open source-ish. If you are a Ferrari fan, take a chance to personalize a model of your choice and take it for a test drive around the Mugello Circuit.

Have a look at the preview to get a gist.

Cloud Expo Europe 2009 - Cloud Expo Europe will take place in Lodon, 20th & 21st May in London.

Speakers from Amazon, Deloitte, Google, IBM, Red Hat and many more will be presenting at a conference, included Jon ‘maddog’ Hall and Bill Weinberg. Listening to Jon at VON Europe was a pleasure, I am sorry to the event and his speech.Matthew Aslett speaking about ‘How to make millions from open source‘ is another speech I’d love to hera, and last but not least the debate around the Open Cloud Manifesto.

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Savio Rodrigues cleaned up an old blog post retitling it after a tweet from Bob Sutor, to tell people interested in open source to not consider just Red Hat and alike, but think also go work at IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Tibco, etc.

Many IT jobs call for open source skills, and also Matt Asay called for the shortage of open source talent. What about average salary of open source jobs?

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Zenoss, the provider of open source network, systems and applications management software, with its Zenoss Masters program - aimed at recognizing the contributions of outstanding members of the Zenoss Community - this week awarded Jane Curry of Skills 1st.

While at the Open Source Think Tank I met again Mark Hinkle, VP Community at Zenoss, and I asked him to tell me more about the Zenoss community days and about Zenoss unique selling points.

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Taking Control of Your Documents - Rob Weir’s guide to free yourself from Microsoft Office dependency in 3 steps.

OpenOffice Draw Repair - Repair Deleted .ODG Documents - a shareware openoffice.org draw recovery software which repairs corrupt and damaged .odg files.

OpenOffice gets Non-linear Solver - a new extension to the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet which adds two new solver mechanisms.

The 19th Jolt Annual Award ceremony, held at the SD WEST 2009 earlier this month, celebrated many open source winners this year, also in the books general and books technical categories.

Postgres Plus is the Jolt Winner of the Database Engines and Data Tools category, and I tend to agree with Ed Boyajian, Enterprise DB CEO, saying that the award is an indication that the software industry understands that open sources databases are an increasingly disruptive force in the enterprise market.

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“Open Source Offering in Italy: an Analysis of an evolving Sector” conference follow-up are addressed by Stefano Micelli on first draft blog. Stefano brings me in because of something I said at the conference, commenting a research finding saying that small firms tend not to partner with other firms.

Affirmative action is needed to enable “lucrative coopetition“, in order to reduce R&D costs and foster innovation?

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OpenOffice.org Base: Editing Information in a Database - four different ways to do it.

THREE reasons to upgrade to openoffice.org3 - Collin says his reasons. What about yours?

Some news from the Education project - Eric Bachard on the OpenOffice.org Education Project.

Scanned A4 template - template for embedding scanned A4 pages into documents.

Using MindTouch Deki to Create Mashups and Composite Applications - The first 30 minutes are dedicated to basic wiki-style collaboration and editing within Deki, the next 15 minutes will focus on creating mashups and composite applications, and the last 15 minutes will be a Q&A session. Wednesday, March 25, 2009.

Powerful, Low Cost Data Warehousing in a Challenging Economy - Find out some organizations improved their ability to integrate and analyze data, monitor operational business health and make decisions using integrated solutions from MySQL and Pentaho. Tuesday, April 07, 2009.

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