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Oracle: Open Source’s Friend or Foe?

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 8, 2010
in Open Business Models
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Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun’s approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn’s bad opinion of Oracle’s attitude towards open source.

Oracle’s plans for open source are probably not detailed enough to score, but looking at history is always instructive.

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Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases

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Roberto Galoppini
on June 6, 2009
in Commercial OSS
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As mentioned in a previous post, ForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration - asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.

Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.

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OpenOffice.org links: 8 Extensions, Import Spreadsheet into a OOo Database, OOo Migrations

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Roberto Galoppini
on May 23, 2009
in OpenOffice.org
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8 Essential OpenOffice Extensions - Enjoy the Writer’s tool extension, the Sun Presentation Minimizer and other six popular extensions.

How to Import Data From Spreadsheet into OpenOffice.org Database - a simple tutorial to import data in six steps.

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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.