Scaling Up, Out or Virtually with MySQL - Ivan Zoratti, Sales Engineering Director for MySQL EMEA, will help you to understand which of the MySQL scaling options is best likely to meet your needs. The webinar will take place on Thursday, January 15th 2009.
WEBINAR: Scaling a PHP Application - This Zend presentation will focus on PHP software design techniques, and tools and software that help in building a high throughput. The Webinar will take place on January 28th 2009.
Reduce Your ECM Costs by 90% - This Alfresco webinar will review publicly available pricing information, and look at the cost of a typical basic system. The Webinar will take place on January 15th 2009.
Jaspersoft and Talend invite to a joint free webinar “Be Open: Best of Breed Solutions“.
Attend to this one hour webinar you will know more about Jaspersoft and Talend work together, the advantages of using open source for BI, Data Integration, and Data Quality.
The webinar will be held on Tuesday, Jan 20, 10 am - 11 am (CET), register on line.
Open source business models must be voluntary says Dana Blankenhorn, disagreeing with Dave Rosenberg, who predicts open source becomes paid in 2009.
Dana believes that open source business models must be voluntary, and I can hardly disagree on this (all in all every business shouldn’t be based on compulsory buys). But open source code is not a commodity, and there is a lot of economic value behind it. Code, open source or not, is not enough.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Business Models: Opinions and Predictions from few Thought Leaders’
The market opportunity for OpenOffice.org Migrations topic took over after turning OpenOffice.org migrations into a business post, with a variety of views and perspectives.
Savio Rodrigues points out that top 2000 companies will likely end up closing a deal with Microsoft, but out of that niche he sees a business opportunity for ISVs, System Integrators and also Microsoft’s partners. Leif Lodahal, project coordinator in the Danish OpenOffice.org project, sees Sun’s absence from the Danish market as an opportunity.
The most important barriers to OpenOffice.org adoption by medium to large enterprises are the lack of system management tools, the scarce availability of enterprise applications’ integration, and the burden associated with the migration of custom applications.
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org Migrations: Easing Medium-Large Companies’ Migrations’
The OpenOffice.org Italian Association announced that OpenOffice.org in Italy broke the five million mark this year, yet another record for the Italian release of the world’s leading free and open source productivity suite.
Davide Dozza, PLIO’s president commented the result:
Back in 2006, when we started counting OOo downloads, 800,000 downloads per year was an astonishing result to us. At that stage we couldn’t even imagine that the number would have grown to 1.780.000 in 2007, and beyond five millions in 2008.
Even if the number of downloads is not an accurate measure of the market share, it definitely shows the trend.
So said, there is still a lot to do, especially in the business arena. OpenOffice.org has recently started a Business Development Project, managed by Alexandro Colorado, who recently posed questions about how to set standards for OpenOffice.org professionals.
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org: About Turning OpenOffice.org Migrations into a Business’
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