Commercial Open Source Software

Wubi is the easiest tool to step into the Linux world, allowing Windows users to install Ubuntu with a single click. Oddly yesterday an installation failed with the following message:

OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u’C:\\ubuntu\\install\\ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso

To fix the error you just need to directly download the Ubuntu iso and put the file in the directory where your Wubi is located. Now relaunch Wubi and everything will work fine.

WSO2 - the open source SOA company with offices located in USA, UK and Sri Lanka  -  earlier this week made three announcements introducing  its new middleware platform for heterogeneous SOAs, now including the Business Activity Monitor and the Gadget Server, all based on the WSO2 Carbon platform. While the Gadget Server simplifies developers’ lives allowing them to write gadgets instead of portlets, the Monitor provides near real-time visibility to performance metrics.

Now that WSO2 offers probably the first complete middleware platform fully open source, I asked  Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO and founder,  few questions about how the business is going at WSO2.

Continue reading ‘Open Source SOA Middleware: WSO2 moves full spead ahead’

FOSSFA and InWEnt announced the vacancy for the “FOSS Certification Manager for ict@innovation”, see the job description for more information.

The contract will go from 15/2/2010 to 31/12/2010, and is renewable. Candidates should send an application before the 20th of January 2010 to Mr Frederick Yeboah secretariat[at]fossfa.net with copy to Mr George Nyambuya: george.nyambuya[at]inwent.co.za. Continue reading ‘Open Source Jobs: FOSS Certification Manager (Africa)’

Extend OpenOffice.org with Toolbars - Learn how to use and personalize OpenOffice.org toolbars.

Openoffice.org extensions- Personal/Family Budget Spreadsheet - A spreadsheet to set a yearly budgeted amount for numerous categories and then track your spending in all of them comparing it to your budgeted amount.

OpenOffice.org Tops “The Best of PRWeb” for 2009 - OpenOffice.org news release eventually was named the winner of The Best of PRWeb contest!

Funambol has just launched the latest edition of its Code Sniper program - a program meant to encourage development by the community of new components - now also  for the open source mobile cloud.

Differently from the Phone Sniper program, aimed at getting micro-contributions, Code Sniper rewards more complex contributions. Stefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager, told me more about the “Funambol way“, maybe other vendors leading open source projects could find it inspirational.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Funambol Code Sniper Goes 2.0′

On the 3rd of September the European Commission has decided to conduct a phase two inquiry, which includes forwarding surveys to Oracle’s competitors and customers as well as organizing “crowded“ private hearings.

While lobbyists of both sides are arguing to convince the EC that the deal may - or may not - limit competition in the database market, Monty Widenius asks hecklers for help to save mySQL, and Oracle makes commitments.

Florian Mueller - known EU campaigner and strategist, involved also in the software patents war - shared with me some of his current ideas, and I took the chance to speculate around the events.

Continue reading ‘EU Oracle-Sun Investigation: Hobbyists and Hecklers at Work’

Eclipse in the large - Speakers from Cisco, Morgan Stanley and eBay about some of the key challenges they face to deploying Eclipse to thousands of developers and steps they have taken to address these issues. v
December 14, 2009 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm GMT / 6:00 pm CET

Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BeyeRESEARCH, Eclipse, EnterpriseDB’

Having chaired for two years the open source telephony sessions at the VON Europe conference and at the Broadband Business Forum, I am sorry I missed the last event recently held in Rome. I asked Diego Gosmar - Marketing Director at Xenialab and frequent speaker at these events - to share his vision about the present and the future of hybrid open source communications.

Continue reading ‘Open Source Unified Communications: Asterisk and Beyond, a Chat with Diego Gosmar’