Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler: A Case Study with SAP – Black Duck Software and SAP will review the benefits open source holds for development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing the challanges.
Discovering which open source software do you use maybe an “easy†game to play – using products like OSS Discovery Audit Edition scanning for over 330,000 open source projects to produce a baseline inventory of open source usage or also Krugle Basic providing basic code discovery and code duplication capabilities – but find useful open source packages can be trickier to master.
Read more about how to find open source software at SOS Open Source.
Wubi, the famous Windows Ubuntu installer, is probably one of the reasons why Ubuntu is the most popular Linux desktop distro, at least among Windows users. Agostino Russo – original author and ‘inventor’ of Wubi – told me more about how everything was started from a blueprint. (More …)
Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office – Like it or not, Oracle decided to open the door to the ODF World by charging 90$ per user.
Open Source Developers Conference – April 24-25, Taipei.
Recently MuleSource partnered with Canonical to improve Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. The Tomcat’s expert Jason Britain, newly hired at MuleSource, made clear what are MuleSource’s contributions to Tomcat and I asked to Matt Asay more about what Canonical brings to this partnership, and to Jono Bacon more about Ubuntu’s community.
Making It Your Own: Enforcing Your Enterprise Policies with Nuxeo Studio – Nuxeo is doing well, and is about to deliver a webinar about Nuxeo Studio, a web-based customization service for Nuxeo Enterprise Platform available only to Nuxeo Connect – Developer subscribers.
Live Demo with Q&A – April 27, 2010, 11 am ET.
Among open source related projects funded under the sixth Framework Program, at least four of them – namely FLOSSMetrics, QualiPSo, QUALOSS and SQO-OSS – have been found overlapping around open source software development and quality.
SQO-OSS – Source Quality Observatory for Open Source Software – similarly to FLOSSMetrics was aimed at massive collection of data from thousands of projects, though with different goals.
Looking into EU funded open source initiatives I stepped into few projects, included EDOS, QualOSS and few others around FLOSS metrics and quality. Over the last 7 years a number of open source software assessment methodologies have been proposed, and FLOSSMetrics definitely achieved some interesting results in this respect, and not only.
Thanks a lot for the review, Roberto. The project is now over, but we plan to improve the platform (Melquiades) and the tools. Well, in fact, we’re already at it.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
The Binary Analysis Tool – created by Loohuis Consulting and Opendawn, sponsored by the NLnet foundation and supported by the Linux Foundation - automates some compliance engineering tasks using a method designed to find license violations in embedded devices.
Jesus M. González Barahona is discussing.
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