“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Funambol and JAJAH, the global IP communications company, today announced the world premiere of the new Go JAJAH service, to be launched exclusively in Italy.
The new service automatically updates a mobile phone address book, creating a local number for each international number, allowing callers to make international calls at local rates.
Continue reading ‘Funambol + JAJAH: Open Source SaaS in Action’
OpenOffice package for public administration published in EU open source portal - The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities has released a new version of OpenOffice.org, downloadable at Osor.eu. (via ePractice).
As mentioned in a previous post, ForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration - asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.
Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases’
Talking about Alfresco’s business strategy I happened to mention that the European open source observatory released guidelines for open source procurement.
The OSOR guideline draws on the extensive analysis conducted by the Dutch government’s OSOSS in 2005, followed by a guide published later by the successor organization to the OSOSS program (Netherlands Open in Verbinding).
Continue reading ‘European Open Source Procurement Guidelines: How Do you Like Them?’
Alfresco meetup for community and customers took place here in Rome two weeks ago, featuring both John Newton and John Powell, respectively Alfresco CTO and CEO.
I asked few questions to John Powell, learning more about Alfresco licensing story, and about differences between Alfresco Enterprise Edition and Alfresco Labs.
Continue reading ‘Open Source ECM: Alfresco Business Strategy’
GroundWork, the provider of the open source based network management software, today announced the availability of GroundWork Monitor Starter Edition, designed for small deployments up to 250 monitored devices.
David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, in March told me that GroundWork “productized” a cheaper ‘stealth’ product that was sold by their partners only, prior to this launch. The Starter Edition has now gained an official state, apparently answering to community edition users’ needs.
Is open source on sale? is Groundwork trying to upsell its community?
Continue reading ‘Open Source Monitoring: GroundWork on Sale? Not Really’
James Dixon keeps updating his “Beekeeper model“, analyzing and discussing open source business strategies, now giving a closer view at the importance of the productization process.
Commercial open source, as James states, exists just to deliver software as whole product: an out-of-the-box, easy-to-consume, packaged-and-delivered, risk-free solution.
Italian whole organic product, by fensterbme
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Strategy: About the Open Source Whole Product Concept’
James Dixon - Pentaho Chief Technology Officer - about two years ago wrote the “Beekeeper model“, telling the word about how open source firms writing the majority of the code make business.
Now James released the first draft of the new version asking for comments, and I am glad to give him some feedback again.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Strategy: Feedback on the Beekeeper Model Revisited’
Appcelerator - the company founded in 2006 by Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright, that took a first round in 2008 from Storm Ventures - recently released Titanium preview, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies.
At the open source think tank I met Jeff Kunz, formerly Olliance Group partner and now VP of Business Development at Appcelerator, and I asked him some background about Appcelerator and its business model.
Continue reading ‘Open Source AIR Alternative: Appcelerator, an interview with Jeff Kunz’
Mifos on FLOSS Weekly Open Source Podcast - George Conard and Adam Monsen of the Mifos Initiative interviewed on FLOSS Weekly provide a look into the Mifos Initative.The initiative is aimed at creating and fostering an open platform for the microfinance industry. Mifos is launching is Mifos OnDemand in the Philippines.
Mulecast: A conversation with the creator of The Science Service Bus (SSB) - Edwin Tellman, creator of The Science Service Bus talks about the SSB and who can benefits from it.
Ubuntu Podcast Interviews Mark Shuttleworth - Mark Shuttleworth discusses the upcoming 9.04 release, Ubuntu history, Linux on the desktop, and other stuff.
Recent Comments