“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
Dana Blankenhorn few days ago wrote an article saying that RackSpace maybe the next open source winner. Is he right? Let’s have a quick look at RackSpace’s OpenStack, and how this open source project is evolving before driving any conclusion.
Continue reading ‘OpenStack is getting more and more attention…’
Introduction to Continuent Tungsten Enterprise Summer ‘11 Edition - Join our webinar as we introduce Tungsten Enterprise Summer ‘11 Edition with improved usability, performance and ease of management for MySQL and PostgreSQL clusters.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:00 am PDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: PushToText, Tungsten, Zend’
I learned about Acquia in early 2008, at the Open Source Think Tank, sipping some wine and talking about how to appropriate returns from the commons with its co-founder, Jay Batson. At that time Acquia’s business strategy was still in its infancy, and it is interesting to look at how it has evolved with time.
To learn more about their business strategy when Acquia launched their social business software Commons 2.0 I posed few questions to Bryan House, VP marketing at Acquia.
OpenStack™ - The Open-Source Future of Cloud Computing - In this awareness webcast, learn how:
29 June, 2011, 01:00 pm CDT
Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: Linux Foundation, OpenStack, Sangoma’
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.
The Jolt awards, managed by the new Executive Editor Andrew Bistock, has been revisited and there are 6 categories, the first is the Books category and right now we are in the process to select finalist, see the Jolt Schedule to know more.
I will join for the fourth time the Jolt Awards jury, but this year I’m too busy with my job and I had to limit my participation only to the “Books” category.
Read the guideline to submit nominations, for questions concerning Jolt Awards can be emailed to joltawards@drdobbs.com.
LILY WEBINAR #1 - Learn about Lily during our first Lily webinar focusing on practical use cases, project stories, product roadmap and more.
Thursday July 7th 2011, 04:00 pm CET Continue reading ‘Upcoming Open Source Webinars: CIGNEX, Lily, Nuxeo-Hippo’
The sixth ODF Plugfest will take place on July 14th and 15th 2011, Invalidenstr. 48, 10557 in Berlin (Germany). Continue reading ‘ODF Interoperability: Berlin ODF Plugfest, 14-15 July 2011′
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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’
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