Monthly Archive for October, 2011

NGINX Go Commercial, a Promising Open Source Business Case

Netcraft market share for top servers across the million busiest sitesNGINX - the company born earlier this year to turn the NGINX project success into a commercial open source product - just announced  the closure of a $3 Million  series A funding round. Given the impressive results of NGINX, that according to Netcraft may soon overtake Microsoft, it comes with no surprise that 3 different VCs have decided to invest on it.

Andrew Alexeev, who recently joined the author of NGINX Igor Sysoev to take care of business development and marketing, told me more about company’s business strategy and the road ahead.

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Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Acquia, Palamida, Pentaho

Une étude de cas sur le management de la performance avec le pilotage du business modèle d’une banque privée - Un Webinar Pentaho - Rejoignez Pentaho et TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) le 11 Octobre afin d’apprendre à utiliser la plateforme Pentaho dans le cadre du secteur bancaire.
Mardi 11 Octobre à 11h (CEST)

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Focus Group Open Source 2011, Second Event

The second event of the Focus Group Open Source series has been held yesterday in Milan, at the IBM Forum, all presentations have been uploaded. Sergio Sansonetti - IBMer and host -  welcomed the audience talking about the Focus Group initiative and presenting all the speakers.

After presenting some quick facts of the historical background of Linux I invited Fiorello Cortiana to share his experience and vision around open source for Public Administrations. Andrea Trentini later gave a talk about how free software is taking at the Milan university.

Massimiliano Belardi - Sales Specialist at IBM - joined us for the second time with his talk about IBM continued engagement with Linux, providing the audience with more insights and case-history details. Marco De Felice - Delphis Informatica CEO - gave a speech around his experiences with helping customers to evalute and eventually perform z Series migrations.

Read more at the Focus Group website.


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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.