Commercial Open Source Software

SOS Open Source has been launched just six months ago, and since then both open source vendors and large customers asked for evaluations and  comparison assessment reports.

Since we have been asked to qualify more community-led projects, starting from this month will publish every month a new report about one of them.

To know more about SOS Open Source read also today’s Dana Blankenhorn blog post.

SOS Open Source – an automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software – gathers and analyzes data about open source projects, providing a synthetic representation of all selected candidates and also a graphical tool to compare them.

Read more at SOS Open Source.

Open source software procurement processes in the field of Italian public administrations will be at the center of the upcoming open source conference “Public tenders and open source“, next Thursday 17 June in Rome at the IBM eGov solution center (disclosureaimer: IBM Italy is a client and is the sponsor of the event). Continue reading ‘About Tenders Requesting Open Source’

Black Duck today released the results of a survey asking 20 developer executives from 14 global enterprises about the top technology trends and about barriers to greater use of open source software in development projects. The 2010 edition of the “future of open source” published a survey reporting feedback from 551 respondents (48% vendors, 52% non vendors), giving feedback about what makes open source attractive and top 3 barriers to open source adoption.

Within the collaboration with IBM Italy to organize a series of meeting for Italian public administrations we asked to 16 IT public decision makers using open source - mostly innovators and early adopters - about open source critical success factors, barriers and open source governance.

Continue reading ‘What Do Open Source Surveys reveal?’

During the Public Administrations Innovator barcamp I have been interviewed by Cogo Gigi, one of the organizers, to talk about sustainable innovation in software for public administrations.

In Italy innovation is a 21st century buzz-word, but even limiting to properly reuse existing open source software and practices would be great if done right.

Continue reading ‘About Reusing Open Source in Italian Public Administrations’

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.

Continue reading ‘Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases’

Talking about Alfresco’s business strategy I happened to mention that the European open source observatory released guidelines for open source procurement.

The OSOR guideline draws on the extensive analysis conducted by the Dutch government’s OSOSS in 2005, followed by a guide published later by the successor organization to the OSOSS program (Netherlands Open in Verbinding).

Continue reading ‘European Open Source Procurement Guidelines: How Do you Like Them?’