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  Roberto Galoppini 3:01 pm on December 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Funambol Code Sniper Goes 2.0 

  Funambol has just launched the latest edition of its Code Sniper program - a program meant to encourage development by the community of new components – now also  for the open source mobile cloud.

  Differently from the Phone Sniper program, aimed at getting micro-contributions, Code Sniper rewards more complex contributions. Stefano Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager, told me more about the “Funambol way“, maybe other vendors leading open source projects could find it inspirational.
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  Roberto Galoppini 2:47 pm on December 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ErwinTenhumberg, FlorianMueller ( 3 ), GregStein ( 2 ), martenmickos ( 4 ), MattAsay ( 9 ), MatthewAslett ( 3 ), MontyWidenius, open source foundations ( 3 ), open source sustainability, Oracle open source, SAP Open source   

  EU Oracle-Sun Investigation: Hobbyists and Hecklers at Work 

  On the 3rd of September the European Commission has decided to conduct a phase two inquiry, which includes forwarding surveys to Oracle’s competitors and customers as well as organizing “crowded“ private hearings.

  While lobbyists of both sides are arguing to convince the EC that the deal may – or may not – limit competition in the database market, Monty Widenius asks hecklers for help to save mySQL, and Oracle makes commitments.

  Florian Mueller - known EU campaigner and strategist, involved also in the software patents war – shared with me some of his current ideas, and I took the chance to speculate around the events.

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    Stefano Maffulli 5:35 pm on December 17, 2009 Permalink

    Setting up a non profit foundation may be an elegant solution to the problem. I think Sun should have enough experience dealing with communities (Java Community Process, for example). I believe that the non profit foundation would help also OpenOffice.org

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    Roberto Galoppini 5:43 pm on December 17, 2009 Permalink

    Oracle or Sun maybe or maybe not interested in takin part in the MySQL foundation, it could be named FreeSQL or something like that to avoid all IP issues in case. I believe a relative high number of vendors could have an interest to support it.

    OOo is different, very few players could be really interested and all in all the EU didn’t mention the office suite and without any pressure I can hardly imagine any change at Sun or Oracle.

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    A. Rebentisch 12:07 am on December 18, 2009 Permalink

    So Monty sells MySQL to SUN and then wants it back for free when SUN is overtaken by Oracle. I find that a bit creative use of antitrust law for such objectives. The more critical technology of the merger is probably Java.

    I am sure Monty could sell certification/support instead of licenses, regardless of the software “code” license. Florian’s relicensing request put the stakes a bit high.

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    Roberto Galoppini 1:32 pm on December 18, 2009 Permalink

    Apparently Monty has been taken pretty seriously from the EU, and he is definitely one of the most important voices taking part into this antitrust investigation. So said, I believe that Monty’s concerns about the viability of his business approach shouldn’t be relevant in this case, though. What matters to me is code production sustainability, and nothing else.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:08 am on December 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ITWay, JanWildeboder, Novell ( 2 ), Red Hat ( 8 ), RobertoGaloppini ( 2 ), Sun ( 5 ), Zimbra ( 2 )   

  Open Source Conferences: Open Source Way, 2-4/2/2010 

  Open Source Way, an open source event organized by ITWay – an Italian value added distributor operating also in France, Greece, Portugal, Spain,  and Turkey – will be held on the 2nd and the 4th of February 2010 in Milan and Rome.

  Open Source industry experts will shed light on the revenue growth potential of a fast-growing market, gaining attention also from large companies. The event will focus on new strategies and solutions offered by leading suppliers, with in-depth analysis of questions inherent to the professional and business use of open source technologies.

  The event is open to everyone, register online (Milan, Rome).

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  Roberto Galoppini 8:59 am on December 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: eclipse ( 4 ), EnterpriseDB ( 3 ), larryalston, markmadsen, mattaslett ( 2 )   

  Upcoming Open Source Webinars: BeyeRESEARCH, Eclipse, EnterpriseDB 

  Eclipse in the large – Speakers from Cisco, Morgan Stanley and eBay about some of the key challenges they face to deploying Eclipse to thousands of developers and steps they have taken to address these issues. v
  December 14, 2009 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST / 5:00 pm GMT / 6:00 pm CET

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  Roberto Galoppini 5:14 pm on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Asterisk ( 3 ), diegogosmar ( 2 ), GoogleWave, Hand4Share, Microsoft OCS, OpenSer, OpenSIPS, XeniaLab   

  Open Source Unified Communications: Asterisk and Beyond, a Chat with Diego Gosmar 

  Having chaired for two years the open source telephony sessions at the VON Europe conference and at the Broadband Business Forum, I am sorry I missed the last event recently held in Rome. I asked Diego Gosmar - Marketing Director at Xenialab and frequent speaker at these events - to share his vision about the present and the future of hybrid open source communications.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:05 am on December 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Commercial Open Source Blog: Another Year in Review 

  Commercial Open Source blog few days ago has completed another year of life, a good excuse to make another write-up about the past year.

  Over 300 posts covered many open source related topics, ranging from open source convenience to open source marketing andwhat really matters to customers, included the importance of firm-community relationships and open source governance.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:05 am on December 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alfresco ( 7 ), Bluexml, mindtouch ( 2 ), OpenLogic ( 5 ), SIDE   

  Open Source Webinars: Alfresco, MindTouch, OpenLogic 

  SIDE, graphical tools for Alfresco developers – The webinar will show how to use SIDE graphical environment to build an Alfresco application. SIDE, which stands for Sustainable IDE, is an open source project (GPL v3) founded by BlueXML, software publisher and technological Alfresco partner. You will find more information on Bluexml and SIDE on their websites.
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  Roberto Galoppini 3:26 pm on December 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: DavidDennis ( 4 ), open source monitoring ( 4 ), SLES, virtual appliances   

  Open Source Virtual Appliances: GroundWork goes with Suse 

  GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork – to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.

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  Roberto Galoppini 11:19 am on December 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: openoffice.org ( 7 ), PRWeb, top online news   

  Vote for OpenOffice.org PR news 

  PRWeb yesterday announced the three top online news releases of 2009, and the press release issued for the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.1 has been included in the short list.

  Voting for the overall winner you can help to raise interest in OpenOffice.org because the winner will receive 10 free – as in beer- distributions.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 2:20 pm on November 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: FIDA Inform, ICT innovation, IT conference   

  FIDAInform Conference: The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Italy 

  FIDA Inform, the Italian Federation of the Associations of IT Management Professionals,  invites everyone to attend to its annual conference, which will be held in Rome on the 3rd of December (free entrance, pre-registration required).

  The event, through the actions and initiatives of IT Italian associations summing up to over 1000 professionals, aims to treat the potential of ICT and innovative solutions to make a significant contribution to commercial, financial and industrial institutions. In the afternoon I will join the roundtable to talk about how to select, qualify and compare open source platforms.