Commercial Open Source Software

The next Focus Group Open Source meeting will focus on Open Data, and it will take place on the 25th of January 2012 in Rome, at IBM’s office (sponsor of the event). Among invited speakers Gianni Dominici (ForumPA), Federico Morando (Apps4Italy), Salvatore Marras (dati.gov), Ernesto Belisario (Italian Association for Open Government),  and Guido Vetere (IBM).

For more information and to sign up for the event, see the Focus Group Open Source blog.

SUSE Italia celebrates Linux 20th birthday on the 15th of November 2011 in Rome, and on the 17th of November in Milan. The event is aimed at unveiling SUSE Italia’s new structure and the distinguishing features of SUSE Linux.

The event is tailored to the interest of actual and potential partners.

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.

During the first meeting of the Open Source Focus Group 2011, held in May at the ForumPA, I have been interviewed by the organizers to take stock of how Linux and Open Source are doing in the Italian public administrations. During the interview, I mentioned how SOS Open Source can eventually help organizations, both public and private, to start their open source journey.

Red Hat Italia organized its fifth open source day last week in Rome, and it was quite a success by the numbers:  700 people subscribed to the event, about 500 attendees, 6 talks in the plenary session and 12 speeches in the parallel sessions.

I have been following the whole event before running the final round-table, and I wish to share here some notes from the event.

Continue reading ‘Notes from Red Hat Open Source Day 2011′

The Italian biweekly newspaper “Corriere delle Comunicazioni” in collaboration with HP and Intel invite everyone interested in knowing more about mission critical data centers to join us on the 5th of July, at the Hotel Nazionale in Rome.

Gildo Campesato - Founder and Director of Corriere delle Comunicazioni - will welcome attendees at 14:15 PM, later I will give an introductory speech before introducing our round table speakers, including Alessandro Musumeci (Ferrovie dello Stato), Giovanni Rando Mazzarino (Lottomatica), Emilio Frezza (Comune di Roma), Giuseppe Maria Armenia (ICE), Gaetano Scebba (Api), Alessandro Gabrieli (HP) and Carmine Stragapede (Intel).

Register online, and see you there!

I had already interviewed Luca Passani - the inventor and maintainer of WURFL, the Wireless Universal Resource FiLe - a few years back, but now that his new venture ScientiaMobile hit the market it is time to talk to him again.

I asked Luca to tell us about the new company, its licensing and business strategy.

Continue reading ‘WURFL Goes to the USA: ScientiaMobile is Born’

The Linux operating system is 20 years old, and the Open Source Focus Group for public administrations will run a dedicated event on May 9 at FORUM PA 2011, a workshop hosted by IBM to talk with experts and enthusiasts about Linux’s history and the state of the art.

Register online to join the event “Linux 20 anni dopo: Università, Impresa e Pubblica Amministrazione“, and see you on Monday May 9 at 15:30 at the IBM booth.

The Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) - a research organization of the Autonomous Province of Trento that promotes research in the areas of science, technology, and humanities - on the 21th of April 2011 will host a speech of mine about use, promotion and improvement of open source software by and for Italian public administrations.

See you there!