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Open Source Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Funambol Code Sniper Goes 2.0

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 17, 2009
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Funambol has just launched the latest edition of its Code Sniper program - a program meant to encourage development by the community of new components - now also  for the open source mobile cloud.

Differently from the Phone Sniper program, aimed at getting micro-contributions, Code Sniper rewards more complex contributions. Stefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager, told me more about the “Funambol way“, maybe other vendors leading open source projects could find it inspirational.
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EU Oracle-Sun Investigation: Hobbyists and Hecklers at Work

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 16, 2009
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On the 3rd of September the European Commission has decided to conduct a phase two inquiry, which includes forwarding surveys to Oracle’s competitors and customers as well as organizing “crowded“ private hearings.

While lobbyists of both sides are arguing to convince the EC that the deal may - or may not - limit competition in the database market, Monty Widenius asks hecklers for help to save mySQL, and Oracle makes commitments.

Florian Mueller - known EU campaigner and strategist, involved also in the software patents war - shared with me some of his current ideas, and I took the chance to speculate around the events.

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Open Source Unified Communications: Asterisk and Beyond, a Chat with Diego Gosmar

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 9, 2009
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Having chaired for two years the open source telephony sessions at the VON Europe conference and at the Broadband Business Forum, I am sorry I missed the last event recently held in Rome. I asked Diego Gosmar - Marketing Director at Xenialab and frequent speaker at these events - to share his vision about the present and the future of hybrid open source communications.

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Commercial Open Source Blog: Another Year in Review

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 7, 2009
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Commercial Open Source blog few days ago has completed another year of life, a good excuse to make another write-up about the past year.

Over 300 posts covered many open source related topics, ranging from open source convenience to open source marketing andwhat really matters to customers, included the importance of firm-community relationships and open source governance.

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Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, MindTouch, OpenLogic

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 5, 2009
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SIDE, graphical tools for Alfresco developers - The webinar will show how to use SIDE graphical environment to build an Alfresco application. SIDE, which stands for Sustainable IDE, is an open source project (GPL v3) founded by BlueXML, software publisher and technological Alfresco partner. You will find more information on Bluexml and SIDE on their websites.
December 08 2009 12:00 AM EST

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Open Source Virtual Appliances: GroundWork goes with Suse

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 4, 2009
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GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork - to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.

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Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, Olliance Group, Talend

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Roberto Galoppini
on November 28, 2009
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A Decision Matrix for Alfresco Enterprise 3.2, Alfresco Community 3.2 and Traditional ECM - This webinar will present the requirements for enterprise scale rollout and an “Enterprise Top 10 Decision Matrix”, based on customer experience to guide selection. Wednesday December 02, 2009, 12pm (GMT -5 / New York Time).

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About Open Source Value Creation and Consumption

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Roberto Galoppini
on November 19, 2009
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The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his “software freedom scorecard“, a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.

Matt Asay says we have to get used to companies separating their open-source efforts from their revenue models. We may be talking of  ”fauxpen source” vendors in this case - as originally named by Taurus Balog -  but it doesn’t necessarily cut open development out of the equation.

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Open Innovation Awards: Kaltura

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Roberto Galoppini
on October 12, 2009
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Since last week I started to cover the “Open Innovation Awards” winners, assigned at the  Open World Forum 2009.

Let’s have now a closer look at Kaltura, the open source video platform for online video management, now powering over 32800 different sites.

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How to Make CodePlex Sexy for Business

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Roberto Galoppini
on October 9, 2009
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The mission of the CodePlex Foundation - enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities - could be a roaring success. But in order to  create an open, neutral and business friendly environment first some work has to be done.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
I am a specialist in Commercial Open Source Software, consulting on marketing and business strategy. I help organizations to build new business strategies for the open source economy. I speak widely on open source and open standards throughout the world.