Commercial Open Source Software

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  Roberto Galoppini 2:08 pm on October 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  NGINX Go Commercial, a Promising Open Source Business Case 

  NGINX - the company born earlier this year to turn the NGINX project success into a commercial open source product – just announced  the closure of a $3 Million  series A funding round. Given the impressive results of NGINX, that according to Netcraft may soon overtake Microsoft, it comes with no surprise that 3 different VCs have decided to invest on it.

  Andrew Alexeev, who recently joined the author of NGINX Igor Sysoev to take care of business development and marketing, told me more about company’s business strategy and the road ahead.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:18 pm on July 4, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Johannes Ernst, Marten Mickos ( 3 )   

  OpenStack is getting more and more attention… 

  Dana Blankenhorn few days ago wrote an article saying that RackSpace maybe the next open source winner. Is he right? Let’s have a quick look at RackSpace’s OpenStack, and how this open source project is evolving before driving any conclusion.

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:06 pm on June 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: acquia ( 2 ), bryan house, commons, Drupal ( 5 )   

  Acquia keeps going 2.0: Commons in place 

  I learned about Acquia in early 2008, at the Open Source Think Tank, sipping some wine and talking about how to appropriate returns from the commons with its co-founder, Jay Batson. At that time Acquia’s business strategy was still in its infancy,  and it is interesting to look at how it has evolved with time.

  To learn more about their business strategy when Acquia launched their social business software Commons 2.0 I posed few questions to Bryan House, VP marketing at Acquia.

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    Jacob Singh 3:12 pm on July 3, 2011 Permalink

    One small correction:
    “While Drupal has a relatively small development team working on the core” The link goes to ohloh.net which only tracks commits to version control. Drupal actually has a ton of people working on core, but only 2 at a time have commit rights.

    http://www.drupalgardens.com/drupal7-contributors

    Is a list of all contributors to Drupal 7 core.

    Thanks!
    Jacob

    Full disclaimer: I work for Acquia

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    Roberto Galoppini 8:03 am on July 4, 2011 Permalink

    Hi Jacob, thanks for heads up on this. I didn’t double check my old findings, actually relying only on Ohloh information. A definitely more accurate information can be elaborated using the drupal contributor analyzer, and a pretty recent write-up about contributors for Drupal is available too. The post has been updated accordingly.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:33 pm on June 21, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Ed Boyajian, Gianni Aguilletti, open source day ( 2 ), Red Hat ( 8 ), Werner Knoblich   

  Notes from Red Hat Open Source Day 2011 

  Red Hat Italia organized its fifth open source day last week in Rome, and it was quite a success by the numbers:  700 people subscribed to the event, about 500 attendees, 6 talks in the plenary session and 12 speeches in the parallel sessions.

  I have been following the whole event before running the final round-table, and I wish to share here some notes from the event.

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  Roberto Galoppini 2:25 pm on June 13, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  WURFL Goes to the USA: ScientiaMobile is Born 

  I had already interviewed Luca Passani - the inventor and maintainer of WURFL, the Wireless Universal Resource FiLe – a few years back, but now that his new venture ScientiaMobile hit the market it is time to talk to him again.

  I asked Luca to tell us about the new company, its licensing and business strategy.

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:40 pm on May 19, 2011 Permalink | Reply  

  My Information & Communication Technology Course 

  I’m keeping the course “Information & Communication Technology” at the Link Campus University of Malta, and beyond computer basics and how to use office suites I’ll do my best to provide students with all technology skills they might need for a career in business administration.

  Time by time I’ll use my blog to share tips and hints about open source tools and applications we’ll be using at the course.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 4:58 pm on March 28, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cloud procurement   

  Talk about Cloud Procurement 

  The agenda of the Virtualization & Cloud panel has been updated. On the 30th of March I’ll be giving a speech about Cloud Procurement risks, terms and conditions, below the full list of panelists:

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  Roberto Galoppini 6:56 pm on March 15, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open source day ( 2 ), Red Hat ( 8 ), Rome   

  Red Hat Open Source Day: Rome, 14 June 2011 

  Red Hat Italia is organizing its annual Open Source Day, on the 14th of June 2011. The event will focus on how open source can help to fulfill today’s business requirements spending less, yet offering an overview on the technological news.

  The agenda is still draft, stay tuned.

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:58 pm on March 14, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open source licensing ( 5 ), open source subscriptions, RHEL ( 2 )   

  Open Source Revenue Models: Red Hat’s Tactics and Strategies 

  Red Hat recently disclosed publicly a change in the way they distribute kernel patches, explaining that such decision came out in reaction to third parties (competitively) supporting RHEL.

  Red Hat’s decision might be ‘debatable’ for some, while others are ok with that. The whole point to me seems to be a completely different question, though. Tactic decisions to prevent others from appropriating returns from the (Red Hat) commons are not a substitute to a (long-term) strategy focused on renewal rates, an area where Red Hat is using effective business strategies.

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:28 pm on February 16, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ForgeRock, OpenAm, OpenDJ, OpenIDM   

  Open Source Phoenix Rising: ForgeRock One Year After 

  ForgeRock announced results from its first year of operations along with the acquisition of ApexIdentity, bringing their expertise in identity and access management to ForgeRock’s projects.

  Simon Phipps, Chief Strategy Officer at ForgeRock, answered few questions about ForgeRock’s story and business trategy.

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