Commercial Open Source Software

Acquia upcoming Webinars - The very next acquia webinar is entitled “Tweet This! Leveraging Twitter into your Commons Community“, and it surveys useful Twitter features that incorporate well into Commons communities.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 1:00 pm EDT

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During the first meeting of the Open Source Focus Group 2011, held in May at the ForumPA, I have been interviewed by the organizers to take stock of how Linux and Open Source are doing in the Italian public administrations. During the interview, I mentioned how SOS Open Source can eventually help organizations, both public and private, to start their open source journey.

Free Webinar Open Source Technologies for Clinical Trials - July 19th - Eric Morrie, Manager for Clinical Programming at Abbott Vascular, shares his expertise in open source systems for clinical trials.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 9.00 am PST

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SOS Open Source analyzed Zarafa, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, maintained by the homonymous company headquartered in  the Netherlands (Delft) with offices in Germany and Brasil. The Zarafa Summer Camp 2011was the perfect venue to share our findings around Zarafa (presentation), if you missed our keynote read below to know more this open source messaging and collaboration platform.

Zarafa was released as open source about three years ago, but before that it was already considered a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange, and its code base results mature and stable (information inferred from the public bug-tracking system). A book specialized on Zarafa is on the way, case-studies are available (also from large solution providers) along with a number of forums (even in French and Portoguese).Zarafa popularity compares well with other European competitors, especially in some countries (e.g. , Austria, Germany, the Netherlands).

Read more at SOS Open Source.

Zend Studio Webinar - The participants can greatly benefit from this webinar by learning the key Zend Studio concepts & features of how the debugging environment can assist in fixing code and making it more efficient.
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 12:30 pm EDT

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The Architecture of Open Source - ree two-part informational event, and get the inside scoop directly from the authors of the hot-off-the-press book, The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Elegance, Evolution, and a Few Fearless Hacks.
July 13th, 2011, 1:00 pm (ET)

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Dana Blankenhorn few days ago wrote an article saying that RackSpace maybe the next open source winner. Is he right? Let’s have a quick look at RackSpace’s OpenStack, and how this open source project is evolving before driving any conclusion.

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The Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni” in collaboration with HP and Intel invite everyone interested in knowing more about mission critical data centers to join us on the 5th of July, at the Hotel Nazionale in Rome.

Gildo Campesato - Founder and Director of Corriere delle Comunicazioni - will welcome attendees at 14:15 PM, later I will give an introductory speech before introducing our round table speakers, including Alessandro Musumeci (Ferrovie dello Stato), Giovanni Rando Mazzarino (Lottomatica), Emilio Frezza (Comune di Roma), Giuseppe Maria Armenia (ICE), Gaetano Scebba (Api), Alessandro Gabrieli (HP) and Carmine Stragapede (Intel).

Register online, and see you there!

Zarafa, the European open source vendor based in the Netherlands developing  an open source email and calendar groupware software - invites you to participate in their SummerCamp 2011. The event will be an opportunity to get involved, share experiences and discover all new innovations of the Zarafa product.

The SOS Open Source team will keynote on the 30th of June, unveiling how the Zarafa ecosystem scores on open source maturity, level of industrialization and more.

Registrations are now open.