“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Andrew Oliver commented on my previous blog entry about OSI future, saying that he is interested in the idea of creating an enhanced certification. While waiting for more feedback - especially from other OSI Board members - I want to take a chance to tell more about this idea.
Continue reading ‘The Open Source Road Ahead: Open Source and Parmesan Cheese’
Survival of the Forges: Do Language Trends Tell the Story? - Join this Black Duck Software webinar to review the results of our recent forge analysis and present the expert commentary and perspective of Redmonk co-founder Steve O’Grady, who will also provide a predictive analysis regarding these trends.
Thursday, June 2, 2011, 11:30 am EDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck & RedMonk, OSSCube, Tungsten’
Open Source: What is it; Why does DuraSpace Develop Under the OS Umbrella? - This webinar is for managers and developers who are new to open source and want to understand how it works, the value and issues it presents, and the implications for managing the adoption of open source software within one’s organization.
June 2, 2011, 11:30 am EDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: DuraSpace, Nuxeo, SMART’
SourceForge traffic distribution numbers are a good measure about how much attention and time people from different countries pay to find, download and possibly use open source software. US is still at the first place (15,84%), followed by Brazil (9.16%), France (6.12%), Germany (5.8%) and eventually Italy (4.27%). The only real change in the top 5 is that France overtaken Germany, a sign that the French approach is paying off. BRIC countries collectively keeps holding over 18%.
Continue reading ‘SourceForge Global Traffic Distribution: France Up, Germany Down’
Jim Jagielski, Simon Phipps and Mark Radcliffe at OSBC unveiled OSI plan during the ”A New OSI for a New Decade: Rebooting the Open Source Initiative OSI” session (presentation). Some reports stressed the importance of organizations, but volunteers are welcome too!
In Simon words:
Continue reading ‘The Open Source Road Ahead: Individuals matter’
Open-Xchange Webinar - System integrators and resellers make the most of their open-source and groupware know-how with Open-Xchange.
May 24, 4:00 pm CET
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: OCEG, OpenXchange, Red Hat’
I’m keeping the course “Information & Communication Technology” at the Link Campus University of Malta, and beyond computer basics and how to use office suites I’ll do my best to provide students with all technology skills they might need for a career in business administration.
Time by time I’ll use my blog to share tips and hints about open source tools and applications we’ll be using at the course.
Fault Tolerant MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases with Continuent Tungsten - The webinar will introduce Tungsten, showing how it addresses common faults ranging from failover of DBMS servers to entire sites.
Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:00 am PDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BlackDuck, Continuent, OpenLogic’
What Is New in TestMaker 6 - In this live workshop,on May 10, Frank Cohen, CEO and Founder at PushToTest, will discuss ways to bring TestMaker Open Source Test (OST) tools and solutions into your organization.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:00 am, PDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Market Connections, Nuxeo, PushToTest’
SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.
SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.
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