“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
A Decision Matrix for Alfresco Enterprise 3.2, Alfresco Community 3.2 and Traditional ECM - This webinar will present the requirements for enterprise scale rollout and an “Enterprise Top 10 Decision Matrix”, based on customer experience to guide selection. Wednesday December 02, 2009, 12pm (GMT -5 / New York Time).
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, Olliance Group, Talend’
Few days ago Subversion has been submitted to the Apache Incubator, a move praised by many as the natural fit for both projects, both for technical reasons (Apache projects use Subversion, Subversion relies on many Apache projects) and a shared vision about IP (same license) and community governance (same voting process).
Bill Portelli, Collabnet CEO, and Justin Erenkrantz, Apache Software Foundation President, answered few questions aimed at better understanding if and at which extent this is a win-win move. Let’s start from the corporate side.
Continue reading ‘Apache Incubator: Extraordinary Made Ordinary, the Subversion case’
The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his “software freedom scorecard“, a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.
Matt Asay says we have to get used to companies separating their open-source efforts from their revenue models. We may be talking of ”fauxpen source” vendors in this case - as originally named by Taurus Balog - but it doesn’t necessarily cut open development out of the equation.
I want to make my point by having a look at how differently two companies have been building a business strategy around Apache projects. Continue reading ‘About Open Source Value Creation and Consumption’
Last week Packt has announced that Drupal has won both the best open source PHP CMS Category and the Hall of Fame new category. Having been one of the judges for the first category, I wish to share some thoughts about my number 1, 2 and 3.
Continue reading ‘Open Source CMS Awards 2009: My favorite Winner is…’
OSOR news reported about the second ODF Plugfest, the event held in Orvieto at the beginning of this month bringing together standards experts from major multi-national corporations, representatives of European public administrations, andmany individuals active in the European open source community.
The BlackDuck Legal Webinar series on the 17th of November at 11:30 am ET will run the Lessons from the Real World. The webinar will cover the main issues an organization face when wants to be in controls on open source. Zenoss and Extreme networks will bring their own experiences in this respect.
The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF interoperability. People from all over the world for two days collaborated to ensure not “merely” standards’ compliance but true interoperability, below an essay of facts and figures of the event.
Continue reading ‘Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day’
Orvieto last week hosted the second ODF Interoperability Workshop, an international event bringing together ODF implementers from all over the world. My talk “open standards and interoperability” opened the first session on day 1, just after Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - welcomed the international audience.
Continue reading ‘ODF Plugfest: Open Standards and Interoperability’
Forrester Research on Optimizing Globally Distributed Software Development Using Subversion - Jeffery Hammond, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research - will cover the Software Configuration Managemeingnt space, explain the reasons behind Subversion’s rapid ascent to the leadership position in the SCM space. Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST.
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Robin Good tomorrow will held his first POP Workshop in Rome, an event dedicated to online publishers willing to design and implement an effective communication strategy. Robin Good invited me to share with his attendees my thoughts on personal branding, and I look forward to join the New Media Strategy session along with Italo Cillo, Andrea Genovese and Giulio Marsala.
See you there!
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