GroundWork, the provider of the open source based network management software, today announced the availability of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition, designed for small deployments up to 250 monitored devices.
David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, in March told me that GroundWork “productized” a cheaper ‘stealth’ product that was sold by their partners only, prior to this launch. The Starter Edition has now gained an official state, apparently answering to community edition users’ needs.
Is open source on sale? is Groundwork trying to upsell its community?
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Olliance Group, the open source management consulting firm based in San Francisco organizing yearly the Open Source Think Tank, is growing and seeks for an Open Source Sales and Business Development Executive.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Jobs: Olliance Group is Growing’
Trying to organize my blog information in a clearer way, over the next two weeks I will make some cosmetics changes to commercial open source blog. Yesterday I started by updating WordPress to the latest version available, and adding a plug-in to keep my readers up to date about my events (Event Calendar by Alex Tingle).
The WordPress publish platform is getting more and more flexible everyday, its plugin architecture helps developers to release a great number of add-ons, making WordPress a viable option for many purposes, from a stock icons e-commerce store to an apartment booking website.
Stay tuned for more.
James Dixon keeps updating his “Beekeeper model“, analyzing and discussing open source business strategies, now giving a closer view at the importance of the productization process.
Commercial open source, as James states, exists just to deliver software as whole product: an out-of-the-box, easy-to-consume, packaged-and-delivered, risk-free solution.
Italian whole organic product, by fensterbme
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Released Apache OFBiz latest version - The Apache Foundation announced the newest release of Apache Open For Business (OFBiz). “As an ASF Project, no single company owns and markets the software exclusively,” explained David E. Jones, original OFBiz co-creator and Chair of the OFBiz Project Management Committee.
Continue reading ‘Apache ERP OFBiz, Open Source Data Warehousing, Open High Availability Cluster: Open Source links, 23-04-2009′
OpenOffice.org Opens up for Business - Andrew Ziem - author, trainer, tester, and OpenOffice.org blogger - wrote a OpenOffice.org quick-start guide for beginners containing also tips about recommended extensions.
IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org - Oddly enough the article still talks about IBM’s hypothetical acquisition of Sun, but all points about why a foundation is needed make still sense.
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org Quick-Start Guide, OOo Foundation, Templates: OpenOffice.org links, 22-04-2009′
The Big Brother Award - a prize awarded to private companies and individuals who have “excelled” in the violation of our privacy - has got at its eleventh edition this year. Last year it was held in 9 different countries, while the 2009 edition seems to take place only in 5 countries, Italy included (thanks to the Winston Smith Project).
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James Dixon - Pentaho Chief Technology Officer - about two years ago wrote the “Beekeeper model“, telling the word about how open source firms writing the majority of the code make business.
Now James released the first draft of the new version asking for comments, and I am glad to give him some feedback again.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Strategy: Feedback on the Beekeeper Model Revisited’
PushToTest - a professional open-source software publisher of test automation tools, methodology, and training established by Frank Cohen in 2001- will run an half-day workshop on Selenium, soapUI, HTMLUnit, TestGen4Web (powered by SpikeSource) and other open-source test tools.
The meet-up will take place in Austin on the 22 of April, register on line. Download workshop examples.
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