Commercial Open Source Software

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  Roberto Galoppini 4:31 pm on January 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  OpenClovis benefiting from open source business model? 

  OpenClovis Inc., provider of the omonimous commercial off-the-shelf application service platform for the telecommunications industry, yesterday announced that the company ended calendar year with more than 200 percent revenue growth.

  Budhraja, OpenClovis’s CEO, said:

  “The introduction of the open source business model has been a tremendous success as experienced by our customers and partners, with more than 3,500 downloads of OpenClovis Application Service Platform and more than 700 registrants in the open source community. The phenomenal success of the open source model has been realized by customers, partners and the industry at large.”

  OpenClovis in october launched new open source projects that aim to provide high availability and carrier grade capabilities for the telecommunications industry, and Kaj Arno, vice president of open source community relations for MySQL AB, applauded the initiative saying:

  Open source has become a proven method for meeting these challenges, and we applaud OpenClovis’ outreach to the open source telecom world.

  Dave Rosenmberg on May was wondering if while network equipment providers and telco equipment manufacturers are working on cost structures evaluating COTS it wouldn’t be good time to enter the market with open source middleware.

  It’s still to early to judge OpenClovis move, and while their customers page is growing I would like to know more about how are they coping with the open source community and if they’re already benefiting of it.

   

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  Roberto Galoppini 6:40 pm on January 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Open Source IT governance: Nora Denzel opinion 

  Dave Rosenberg met Nora Denzel, former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Software Global Business Unit of Hewlett Packard, to talk about IT operations management and open source’s role in the space.

  Worldwide IT operations management total software revenue grew to $9.9 billion dollars in 2005, where US holds about 48% of the overall market.

  Rosenberg asked her what role does she see open source solutions playing in the IT infrastructure space:

  Obviously, there’s a significant cost savings with open source solutions compared to proprietary tools. And as most mid-market organizations (including educational institutions) can’t afford to shop at the “Big 4” (HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, and BMC Patrol) store, it opens up a big market opportunity for open source. Add to that the flexibility and extensibility of open source products that allow companies to “right-size” and customize their IT monitoring and management solutions to fit their specific needs. Being able to do this at a low cost had been a pipe dream for SMB’s and smaller enterprises, since most of the solutions out there cater to the largest enterprises with the deepest pockets. The availability of open source options is changing that.

  When it comes to IT monitoring and management personalization play an important role, and tipically any need fits “the 80-20 rule” the other way around: common needs fit the 80% of cases and 20% of resources are needed to fulfill them, but to cover the remaining 20% of cases you need 80% of the resources.

  Rosenberg then asked her what does she think about the future of open source in this space:

  [..] Inevitably, as customers realize the commoditization effect of IT infrastructure monitoring due to the economic disruption of open source alternatives, the large proprietary vendors will follow suit by focusing on the upper layers of IT operations management, where prices are protected and open source alternatives are not ready for prime time. Open source IT infrastructure monitoring solutions can then serve as feeders to the upstream proprietary solutions.

  In the long run probably open source alternatives will be progressively moving on upper layers too, because common based peer production works well where customization (the 20% of cases) play an important role, as this is the case.

   

   

   

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 5:34 pm on January 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Geodata access policy: the English approach 

  A social and economical explanation of the consequences of the lack of free access to geodata in UK, it’s worth reading it: the tragedy of the Enclosed Lands.
  If interested in the topic from an economical perspective, I suggest you to read a study I mentioned in the post about Italian ZIP code monopoly: an English study stating that Public sector information holders keeping hidden information (raw data) cost the economy half a billion.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 1:24 pm on December 31, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

  Telcos enjoy Open Source 

  In the last years we have been seeing open source adoption getting popular by telcos.
  In my entrepreneurial experience telco operators use open source infrastructures to achieve a competitive advantage through customization; viable OS projects in this respect are freeRADIUS, OpenLDAP and Squid, just to name a few.

  Beyond my experiences I noticed MySQL is doing very well in the telco arena, and the SCOPE alliance, founded by Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens to

  enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on COTS hw/sw and FLOSS building blocks

  has almost one year now.

  Also Telecom Italia has recently revealed its strategical approach to open source, showing an interest in developing enabling ecosystems based on OS community.

  There are even new generation companies, like Tellme , build almost completely on open source, read the full story.