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Bringing Cloud Computing down to Earth

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 3, 2011
in Cloud Computing and My Meetings
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Mar ’11
24
1:00 pm

bringingthecloudfromtheskydowntheearth“Bringing Cloud Computing down to earth“, an event organized by the Italian Cloud Solution Provider ScubeNewMedia in partnership with Google, will take place in Rome on the 24th of March 2011.

The event is aimed at showing the benefits of cloud computing to the Public Sector.

I will give a speech around cloud computing procurement and I’ll be moderating the Q&A session.

Online registration is now open.

The Open Source Innovation Backbone for Startups

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by
Roberto Galoppini
on August 3, 2009
in Random thoughts
. 4 Comments

Open innovation is taking over in many areas, and open source plays an important role especially in software sequential innovation, where each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors. Foremost, for the most of us before anything else software (open source included) is a tool towards a goal.

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Open Source Vendors: Towards a Production Classification in Function of Firm-Community Relationship

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Roberto Galoppini
on February 27, 2009
in Commercial OSS, Open Business Models, Random thoughts and open source communities
. 2 Comments

Few days ago I joined the open source vendor debate remarking the importance of resolving the name confusion in favor of customers, and Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile shout-out saying that open core offers best opportunity for community and commercial Success.

Lines blurring between open source and proprietary vendors apparently invigorate the debate. I want to take the chance here to classify production model in function of the nature of firm-community relationship.

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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.