Packt has announced that PrestaShop has won the Open Source E-Commerce Applications category. Being a jury member I used SOS Open Source tools to learn more about all finalists - namely Magento, nopCommerce, OpenCart, PrestaShop, TomatoCart – and I want to share here some findings.
The Open World Forum has concluded and it was another great success. The “Open Innovation Awards” this year have been awarded to the following companies:Â Disruptive Innovations (for the BlueGriffon project), Jaspersoft, Obeo (for the Acceleo project), Talend and XWiki.
SOS Open Source today had a closer look at XWiki, below a small excerpt of the analysis.
Olliance Group and DLA Piper are organizing the 3rd Europe Open Source Think Tank 2010, to be held September 28-29 in Paris, France at the Hôtel Golden Tulip Royal Garden Champs-Elysées. The event will present selected case studies focusing on the growing commercial maturity and complexity of open source and the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS.
Black Duck Software Announces Legal Certification Program, Certified Legal Professional Directory – Black Duck announced the availability of a certification program for legal professionals with clients involved in acquiring technology companies.
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Hi!
Have you tried XWiki, an open source wiki for organizations?
Find out more there: http://www.xwiki.com
Have a great summer!
Regards.
Emilie Ogez
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. (More …)
The second Innovators barcamp – a meet-up organized by the Italian innovators group to pass from talking about innovation to do it in and for public administrations – was the perfect venue to share some ideas about “Open Source & Multi-sided Markets“.
My ignite talk was around on one of the most important value of open source, if not the only one that makes open source a “different thing”: the community. Having had the opportunity to share my thoughts with over 100 attendees in a bare 5 minutes talk, I want here to talk deeper about why the community matters, focusing on its different constituents and their relative interests.
The open source SOA company WSO2 earlier this week made few more announcements introducing the latest release of WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Carbon 3.0 and few other components. I asked Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 VP of business development, how can they launch so many different products at the same time, and why. (More …)
Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the “burger cloud” among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments.
James Weir, UShareSoft CTO, answered few questions about their offer and open source strategy.
Florian Mueller – the EU campaigner involved in the software patents war – a couple of months ago talking about the Sun-MySQL merger called IBM a “false friend of open source”, but when I asked for more details he told me to wait.
Today he pointed me to his new foss patents blog entry reporting IBM has concerns about unauthorized use of proprietary IBM information by TurboHercules contributors.
Roger Bowler – CEO of TurboHercules, the company behind the mainframe emulator distributed under the Q Public license – asked IBM to consider adding such intellectual property to the IBM “non-assertion†pledge to the open source community.
Is there any chance that IBM would consider that?
Read more at The Register and at Dana Blankenhorn’s blog.
Actually I didn’t take any position yet, though I believe that posing questions is legitimate and it doesn’t imply a judgment, as eloquently explained Simon Phipps.
At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. (More …)
Matt, many thanks for your post.
There is no mention here of the messages that were once dear to Canonical’s heart, freedom, free software. Is this vision now to be sacrificed to the alter of enterprise computing?
A really interesting question to answer would be, how does Canonical propose to bring freedom to the cloud?
Some clarity around these topics would be great.
Don,
Matt answers your question: it’s a business, that has lots of potential for growth and profit for its employees and owners. If Canonical increases its market share and installed base, that will increase the viability of Linux as a platform — including the supply of applications and the willingness of firms to consider it as a desktop alternative. But in the end, Jane and Matt’s job is to make a buck.
Joel
Roberto Galoppini and 
Don are discussing.
I hope that next year we can be taken into consideration with VirtueMart since we’re completely rebuilding it with an eye for developers and an eye to the ease of use 🙂