Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Open Source Virtual Appliances: GroundWork goes with Suse

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 4, 2009
in Commercial OSS
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GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork - to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.

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Vote for OpenOffice.org PR news

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 2, 2009
in OpenOffice.org
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PRWeb yesterday announced the three top online news releases of 2009, and the press release issued for the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.1 has been included in the short list.

Voting for the overall winner you can help to raise interest in OpenOffice.org because the winner will receive 10 free - as in beer- distributions.

FIDAInform Conference: The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Italy

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Roberto Galoppini
on November 30, 2009
in Italians do it and My Meetings
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FIDA Inform, the Italian Federation of the Associations of IT Management Professionals,  invites everyone to attend to its annual conference, which will be held in Rome on the 3rd of December (free entrance, pre-registration required).

The event, through the actions and initiatives of IT Italian associations summing up to over 1000 professionals, aims to treat the potential of ICT and innovative solutions to make a significant contribution to commercial, financial and industrial institutions. In the afternoon I will join the roundtable to talk about how to select, qualify and compare open source platforms.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.