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How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year

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Roberto Galoppini
on May 5, 2011
in SOS Open Source
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SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.

SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.

Read more at SOS Open Source.

Open Source Conferences: Better Software, Florence, 6-7 May 2009

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 19, 2009
in Italians do it and My Meetings
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Better Software 2009, an Italian conference on software development for IT managers and entrepreneurs, will be held at the Viva Hotel Laurus in Florence, on the 6-7 of May 2009.

The conference will bring together national and international experts in the fields of agile programming, open source and web marketing. Aim of the event is to discuss around the process of software production, emphasizing many different aspects ranging from user requirements analysis, user interface design and product usability evaluation.

Registration are now open, to know more you follow Better Sotware blog or twitter.

Open Source ERP, a growing market

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Raphael Bauduin
on November 9, 2008
in Commercial OSS and Open Source Recommendations
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Today’s Open Source software maturity is confirmed by its offering of ERP software. Not only do Open Source ERP solutions bring solid and broad features sets, they do so at a lower cost of implementation as mentioned at a Business Meets IT seminar in Belgium today.

ERPERP by xcode

Interviews from speakers at the formerly mentioned ERP event organised by Profoss on 18 November and 2 December show however this is still is a market to take. If most ERP project have regular contacts (the only apparent exception being the absence of contacts between Adempiere and Compiere), those contacts are not due to competition. Competition for Free and Open Source ERP software is found in the big companies like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM. Demand for OpenERP is so big, that it’s sometimes hard for them to follow the demand.

The origin of the ERP solutions covered are multiple: a local initiative for OpenERP, development in the academic world for Openbravo, a fork from another project (Compiere) for Adempiere. These different development paths show the diversity of ways to create Free and Open Source Software. OpenERP and Openbravo development are backed by a company, whereas Adempiere has taken the collaborative approach, where all companies or individuals interested are able to contribute easily according to a process put in place.

Companies or organisations targeted vary in size and market and in the end cover most of the spectrum of the market: from wholesale to public administrations, from 10 to 2000 users. If two years ago OpenERP had a lot of request from SMBs, today they get a lot more request from bigger companies.

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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.