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EU-funded Open Source Initiatives: NESSI’s Missing Deliverables

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 15, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 4 Comments

NESSI, is the “European Technology Platforms” - i.e. industry-led consortia considered by the EU relevant discussion partners to discuss how to achieve Europe’s future growth, competitiveness and sustainability objectives - and its declared strategic objective was to support the evolution from software to services. Not suprisingly open source was supposed to play a major role, but things went differently.

Despite the EU backed NESSI with  about 1 million euros, the Open Source Working Group did very little. As I noticed before NESSI WP description mentions deliverables that never got delivered.

Update: I have been asked from one of the contacts I mentioned to remove all companies’ and organizations’ names. You can find the list in the NESSI Open Source Working Group Manifesto mentioned above.

Until now no news about those deliverables, though.

Open Source Marketplace for Public Administrations: Presentations are online

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Roberto Galoppini
on December 13, 2010
in Commercial OSS, Europe eGov and Italians do it
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All presentations of the event held on the 17th of November to talk about electronic purchase of open source services,  are available at the host’s website (Consip, in the news section).

The event, organized in collaboration with the Open Source Focus Group for Public Administrations, focused on how to use the award-winning Italian Public Administration Electronic Marketplace to ease open source procurement processes.

Open Source e-Commerce Applications Awards

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Roberto Galoppini
on November 18, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 2 Comments

Packt has announced that PrestaShop has won the Open Source E-Commerce Applications category. Being a jury member I used SOS Open Source tools to learn more about all finalists - namely Magento, nopCommerce, OpenCart, PrestaShop, TomatoCart - and I want to share here some findings.

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Open Innovation Awards: XWiki

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Roberto Galoppini
on October 5, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 2 Comments

XWiki logoThe Open World Forum has concluded and it was another great success. The “Open Innovation Awards” this year have been awarded to the following companies:  Disruptive Innovations (for the BlueGriffon project), Jaspersoft, Obeo (for the Acceleo project), Talend and XWiki.

SOS Open Source today had a closer look at XWiki, below a small excerpt of the analysis.

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European Open Source Think Tank 2010: Paris, 28-29 September

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Roberto Galoppini
on August 18, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 2 Comments

Olliance Group and DLA Piper are organizing the 3rd Europe Open Source Think Tank 2010, to be held September 28-29 in Paris, France at the Hôtel Golden Tulip Royal Garden Champs-Elysées. The event will present selected case studies focusing on the growing commercial maturity and complexity of open source and the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS.

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Open Source Summer links 05-10-2010: BlackDuck, Hippo, SugarCRM

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Roberto Galoppini
on August 5, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 3 Comments

Black Duck Software Announces Legal Certification Program, Certified Legal Professional Directory - Black Duck announced the availability of a certification program for legal professionals with clients involved in acquiring technology companies.
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SOS Open Source Goals and Customer Segments

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Roberto Galoppini
on July 23, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 1 Comment

sos open sourceSOS Open Source, the automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software, has been recently covered by Content Here blog and in an interview for Data Manager, an Italian IT magazine. Below some excerpts from the two sources related to SOS Open Source’s goal and customer segments. Continue reading ‘SOS Open Source Goals and Customer Segments’

The Quintessence of Open Source

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Roberto Galoppini
on June 3, 2010
in Commercial OSS and open source communities
. 1 Comment

caponeThe second Innovators barcamp - a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations - was the perfect venue to share some ideas about “Open Source & Multi-sided Markets“.

My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a “different thing”: the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.

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Open Source SOA Middleware: WSO2 Offer Keeps Expanding

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Roberto Galoppini
on May 7, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 1 Comment

The open source SOA company WSO2 earlier this week made few more announcements introducing  the latest release of WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Carbon 3.0 and few other components. I asked Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 VP of business development, how can they launch so many different products at the same time, and why. Continue reading ‘Open Source SOA Middleware: WSO2 Offer Keeps Expanding’

Open Source Cloud: Usharesoft

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Roberto Galoppini
on April 8, 2010
in Commercial OSS
. 1 Comment

Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the “burger cloud” among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments.

James Weir, UShareSoft CTO, answered few questions about their offer and open source strategy.

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
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.