Commercial Open Source Software

SOS Open Source has been used to find and select open source web-based project management with issue-tracking and time-tracking tools to manage multiple IT projects, possibly localized in Italian (or at least open for internazionalization and localization).

The pre-selection of project management programs started by focusing on some of the most famous web-based ones, excluding the following (for the following reasons):

• Kforge, Project HQ, ProjectPier because maintained by a small group;
• Collabtive, Feng Project, because too young (less than 3 years old);

Launchpad, and Trac were eventually added to the final list of candidates (Read more at SOS Open Source.).

Enterprise Open Source Software Procurement and Support Best Practices - The CIO Panel from the 2010 Open Source Think Tank - Colin Bodell (VP Web Platforms, Amazon), Tim Golden (SVP Product Management, Bank of America) and Yuvi Kochar (CIO, The Washington Post Company)- will gather together to talk about the open source software acquisition and support challenges they have faced and share solutions they have developed to overcome these challenges.
Jul 15, 2010 11:00 AM PDT. Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Kaltura, OllianceGroup, Selenium’

The Open Innovation Demo Cup - a contest open to all open source projects and solutions getting ready for commercial launch or already on the market - will be held at the next Open World Forum on the 1st of October. Continue reading ‘Open Innovation Awards 2010: The Demo Cup’

Everyone seems to have an opinion on the open core debate, and a popular opinion seems to inflict some sort of excommunication to anyone having a less than pure open source monetization process. Therefore I thought that I would add some unsolicited input to this matter.

Now, what is a pure open source monetization process? Continue reading ‘Open to the core - The pragmatic freedom’

Yesterday Technorati’s Commercial Open Source blog page revealed Techorati Authority 424 and membership in the Top 100 Info Tech list, but with a totally different authority (546, see pictures below). Continue reading ‘Technorati’s “Top 100 InfoTech” List’

“Open Core is the New Dual Licensing Model” is the last of a chain of interesting posts against or in favor of open core, coming from different realm of experience: the analyst guy Stephen O’Grady, the free software evangelist Simon Phipps, the hacker Brian Aker and last but not least the entrepreneur Mårten Mickos.

Let’s dig now deeper into what is open core to business, and why it is not a business model. Continue reading ‘Open Core is not a Business Model’