Commercial Open Source Software

The Free Software Foundation announced an alternative OpenOffice.org extensions repository, which will list only extensions released under free software licenses. Before that the FSF asked the OpenOffice.org Community Council to list only free software extensions or to provide a second independent listing, but the OOo council responded negatively.

Are two better than one?

Best Practices and Trends in Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration - Jacob Morgan, Principal of Chess Media Group, and Rick Mann, IT Manager, Florida Hospital, will talk about the best practices and upcoming trends in Enterprise 2.0 collaboration.
Today at 1pm EDT. Continue reading ‘Open Source Today Webinars: Acquia, AppStacks, CouchDB’

OpenOffice.org Annual Conference , now at its 10th edition, will be held in Budapest (Hungary) and the call for paper is open until the 2nd of June. People intersting in attending OOoCon 2010 are invited to subscribe to the OOoCon 2010 mailing list. To subscribe to the list send a blank email to ooocon-discuss-subscribe <at> marketing.openoffice.org.

The OpenOffice.org Community is now accepting proposals for hosting the next year conference.

Case Studies: Deploying Open Source Storage Clouds - When you sort
through the hype of cloud storage it is possible to find real world practical examples in use today. In this webinar a panel of experts will discuss:
• Key storage trends and the importance of open source storage
• The value of scalable storage, why it matters and what you should look for
• Discussion on cloud storage, is it real and what are the practical use cases
Wed, May 26, 2010 02:00 PM ET - 03:00 PM ET Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Acquia, BlackDuck, Everest’

Black Duck few days ago announced its membership in Open Health Tools (OHT),  an organization dedicated to open source health-care IT systems aiming at the creation of an open source eclipse-like ecosystem.

Peter Vescuso, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, told me more about this Black Duck initiative. Continue reading ‘Open Source Health Care: Black Duck joins OHT’

Open Source software selection starts with the creation of a short-list of open source packages, and the very next step is the evaluation of all candidates.
Read the dogfood label first.

Open source projects are planned, developed and maintained often using accessible Revision Control systems (e.g. Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial or SVN), Collaboration (blogs, forums, IRC channels, mailing-lists and wikis) and Tracking Systems (e.g. bugzilla, GNATS, OTRS, trac). Despite going through them all can be time-consuming, those are the primary source of information to know more about an open source project.

Read more about evaluate open source software at SOS Open Source.

Open Source CMS - Content Management System Review - SourceFuse and AppStacks will review the leading CMS systems, how to leverage community components, how to choose the right system for you, and how to make sure you are supported and protected after you make your technology decisions.
Thu, May 20, 2010 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: AppStacks, Replay, Talend’

The open source SOA company WSO2 earlier this week made few more announcements introducing  the latest release of WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Carbon 3.0 and few other components. I asked Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 VP of business development, how can they launch so many different products at the same time, and why. Continue reading ‘Open Source SOA Middleware: WSO2 Offer Keeps Expanding’

Black Duck today released the results of a survey asking 20 developer executives from 14 global enterprises about the top technology trends and about barriers to greater use of open source software in development projects. The 2010 edition of the “future of open source” published a survey reporting feedback from 551 respondents (48% vendors, 52% non vendors), giving feedback about what makes open source attractive and top 3 barriers to open source adoption.

Within the collaboration with IBM Italy to organize a series of meeting for Italian public administrations we asked to 16 IT public decision makers using open source - mostly innovators and early adopters - about open source critical success factors, barriers and open source governance.

Continue reading ‘What Do Open Source Surveys reveal?’

The Innovatori PA 2010 barcamp, now at its second edition, will take place again at the ForumPA , on the 18th of May. The aim of this unconference is to exploit in real situations sustainable innovation in public services.

The Italian innovators group, a network of over 1600 individuals willing to innovate in the public sector, is the right place to share your ideas and projects before the event.

See you there!