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Open Source Trading: Marketcetera Platform 1.0 now Available

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 15, 2009
in Commercial OSS, Open Business Models and Vertical Markets
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Marketcetera - the open source company providing open source software for automated trading systems - on the 14th of January released its new Automated Trading Platform 1.0.

Open Source at Wall Street is getting momentum. The official 1.0 release, originally tentatively scheduled for the last quarter of 2008, has already been adopted by 20 financial institutions, proving that open source can do a lot for the hedge fund industry.

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Commercial Open Source 2009: Challenges and Opportunities

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Roberto Galoppini
on January 1, 2009
in Commercial OSS, Open Business Models, Random thoughts, Software Patent and open standards
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The New Year historically is a time for self improvement, and the commercial open source side of the world should be no exception to that.

Open Source thought leaders have expressed opinions and discussed the state of open source, here are my takes on some challenges and opportunities for the new year.

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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.