Commercial Open Source Software

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:

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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.

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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).

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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)’