“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
SOS Open Source yesterday announced the availability a guide to choose a Linux (server) distribution. The guide - at the moment available only in Italian - provides information about a number of Linux distributions, included CentOS, Debian, Mandriva, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.
Find out more about the guide at SOS Open Source website.
SOS Open Source last week evaluated LimeSurvey, the PHP open source survey web application to create on line surveys, translated in many languages and downloaded over 485.000 times. (read more at SOS Open Source.)
SOS Open Source, the automated methodology to find and evaluate open source software, has been recently covered by Content Here blog and in an interview for Data Manager, an Italian IT magazine. Below some excerpts from the two sources related to SOS Open Source’s goal and customer segments. Continue reading ‘SOS Open Source Goals and Customer Segments’
Open Source software selection starts with the creation of a short-list of open source packages, and the very next step is the evaluation of all candidates.
Read the dogfood label first.
Open source projects are planned, developed and maintained often using accessible Revision Control systems (e.g. Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial or SVN), Collaboration (blogs, forums, IRC channels, mailing-lists and wikis) and Tracking Systems (e.g. bugzilla, GNATS, OTRS, trac). Despite going through them all can be time-consuming, those are the primary source of information to know more about an open source project.
Read more about evaluate open source software at SOS Open Source.
SourceForge few days ago served its 4 billionth download and today launched the new website. The new UI is the answer to inputs from project administrators asking for an easier path for users to download their software.
I asked Jon Sobel, SourceForge Inc. Group President, his opinion about this change:
The EOS directory, the list of enterprise open source applications launched two years ago by Optaros, has recently been handed over to Bruno von Rotz, initial sponsor of the initiative and well known open source specialist.
Today has been announced the EOS Directory Board, established over the last weeks by Bruno von Rotz to strengthen the neutral approach to ratings and selection of free software technologies.
Continue reading ‘Enterprise Open Source Directory Establishes Advisory Board’
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?’
First Monday - the famous peer-reviewed journal - recently published an interesting paper on open source collaboration in the US Public Sector, resulting probably one of the first research covering open source governance in the public sector.
Before commenting its findings and see how and if they could be applied to the Italian situation, I wish to end to recap issues raised during the “Open Source Governance” held in Rome last October.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: State of the Art and Lesson Learnt in Italy (part II)’
OpenLogic keeps contributing open source knowledge through webinars as well as launching a website named Wazi - a word that means “open” in Swahili - an extension of OpenLogic Exchange comparing open source packages and licenses, sharing best practices and tips.
Open Source Software Selection is getting more and more important, choosing among application servers like Geronimo, JBoss, SpringSource dm Server and Tomcat requires functional evaluations and technology decisions.
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