Assoli, the long-live Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software, last year asked Italian candidates to sign a letter where they agree to promote the use of free software.
Given the great results, yesterday Assoli launched a platform named “Caro Candidato” (eng: dear candidate) that will be used from now on for every Italian election.
Sun reported results for its second quarter of fiscal 2009, and Dana Blankenhorn, Matt Asay and the Var Guy all agree that when it comes to open source Sun is on the rise. Simon Phipps states that open source is driving the new Sun, and Jonathan Schwartz keeps saying that open source is key.Â
The value of the Sun brand maybe the reason behind the growth in MySQL billings, but we don’t know actually what ‘MySQL/infrastracture’ means, and drawing conclusions is a guessing game.Â
Hi Roberto. The 55% Y/Y growth listed in page 6 of [1] includes MySQL and “Software Infrastructure”, and the a large portion of the latter builds on GlassFish.
The financial situation is pushing many companies to move from closed, expensive, products to open-source based, much cheaper, products. We are benefiting from that. – eduard/o
[1]http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/investor/earnings_releases/call_slides.jsp
Hi Eduardo,
thank you to bring interesting stuff to the table!
Glassfish for Business seems another great place to share information about Glassfish’s contributions to Sun’s financial results.
If in doubt, read Balsamiq marketing advices and their actual results.
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 release note
1146 giorni con OpenOffice (1146 days with OpenOffice) – The latest version of OpenOffice 3 Soluzioni a raccolta – an Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ built with the help of the community – is available for download. It includes more than 2000 questions in about 750 pages (only Italian).
Talend Update: Open Source Data Integration – James Governor mentions the importance of crowd sourcing in the OpenOffice.org community for contributions not related to coding.
New Chart Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1 – OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 has been released, have a look at the chart features expected in the next 3.1 release.Â
ZK, next Sourceforge Project of the Month – The Sourceforge team invites ZK’s fans to tell their story writing to spreadtheword <at> sourceforge.net.
The Italian association Concreta-mente launched a petition for an Italian open source and open standards day.
During the next “Open Source in Public Administration“, that will be held in Spring on the 3rd of March 2009, the petition will be presented to the Italian Minister of Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta.
Two InitMarketing Customers Win Open Source Business Award – Two Initmarketing customers won prizes. I was partially involved with Stephen Walli to write todoyu business plan, and I really enjoyed it!
The GNOME Marketing team has just launched the Support GNOME cause on Facebook, to allow people to support the GNOME Foundation and help the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project.
After the Friend of GNOME Program recently launched, today the Support GNOME cause went live.
In such a down market, raising $12m with Balderton Capital and get Bernard Liautaud, founder and CEO of Business Object, on board is a testimony of the fact that some VCs keep investing in open source companies.
Marc Brandsma, a Partner at Chausson Finance who advised Talend on its three rounds of funding, yesterday twittered about the deal, and I asked him few question about his personal story with the company, and why he thinks that Talend is a great company.
Web 2.0 Lessons for Communications Services Providers – Henrik Ingo, MySQL Sales Engineer, in this webinar compares the approaches of the Web 2.0 and the Communications industry. The webinar will be held on the 29th of january.
HU: Government withdraws tender requesting proprietary software – Gijs Hillenius reported on the OSOR website the news that the Hungarian Central Board for Services withdrew a software tender violating Hungary’s regulations, as it is forbidden to refer to an actual brand (via glyn moody twitter).
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