The agenda of the Virtualization & Cloud panel has been updated. On the 30th of March I’ll be giving a speech about Cloud Procurement risks, terms and conditions, below the full list of panelists:
Archive for the 'Commercial OSS' Category
| Jun ’11 |
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Red Hat Italia is organizing its annual Open Source Day, on the 14th of June 2011. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements spending less, yet offering an overview on the technological news.
The agenda is still draft, stay tuned.
Red Hat recently disclosed publicly a change in the way they distribute kernel patches, explaining that such decision came out in reaction to third parties (competitively) supporting RHEL.
Red Hat’s decision might be ‘debatable’ for some, while others are ok with that. The whole point to me seems to be a completely different question, though. Tactic decisions to prevent others from appropriating returns from the (Red Hat) commons are not a substitute to a (long-term) strategy focused on renewal rates, an area where Red Hat is using effective business strategies.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Revenue Models: Red Hat’s Tactics and Strategies’
ForgeRock announced results from its first year of operations along with the acquisition of ApexIdentity, bringing their expertise in identity and access management to ForgeRock’s projects.
Simon Phipps, Chief Strategy Officer at ForgeRock, answered few questions about ForgeRock’s story and business trategy.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Phoenix Rising: ForgeRock One Year After’
Bitnami Cloud hosting - a new service aimed at simplifying the deployment of open source stacks in the hosting open source applications in the cloud (faq) - after few months of private beta-testing just went live today.
Erica Brescia, BitRock CEO, answered few questions about open source in the cloud. Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud: Bitrock launches Bitnami Cloud Hosting’
SOS Open Source formerly has been asked to choose a web project management platform first and then to identify an open source software configuration management tool. The ultimate goal was to assemble an open source Application Lifecycle Management suite.
“Open Source Application Lifecycle Management” is a short essay on a journey about how to select the right components and then integrating them to create an effective development platform.
The Center for Democracy & Technology took position in response to the news that Egypt had cut Internet access and mobile services, below their press release. Continue reading ‘Internet Freedom: CDT Statement on Egypt’s Internet Shutdown’
Olliance Group today announced that registrations for the 6th Annual Spring Edition of the Open Source Think Tank, are open.
The Open Source Think Tank (agenda) will be held April 7–9, 2011 in Sonoma, CA at the Sonoma Mission Inn, if you have not been invited you can request an invitation.
Black Duck has changed a lot over the last years - recent acquisitions include SpikeSource, Ohloh and today Olliance - and its offer now goes definitely beyond the legal landscape.
One of the first Commercial Open Source entries enlisted Black Duck among open source players taking advantage of the absence of a corporate actor to develop and offer new services not coding related.
Black Duck was an intellectual property management firm, OSRM was providing warranty services, SpikeSource was offering software dependability services and OpenLogic was providing support for a number of open source packages. Continue reading ‘Open Source Acquisitions: How a Caterpillar turns into a Butterfly’
SOS Open Source analyzed SpagoBI, the Italian open source business intelligence suite developed by Engineering, one of biggest and oldest Italian IT companies.
SpagoBI is hosted at the OW2 Consortium forge, house of interesting and innovative open source projects like Funambol (see the corresponding report) and Bonitasoft.
SpagoBI code base is stable and well-commented, but it received little popular attention. The absence of books as well as the lack of case studies by third parties are among the possible causes for that.
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