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  Roberto Galoppini 3:51 pm on March 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Italian Open Source Offering: System Integrators and the Open Source Opportunity Workshop 

  In addition to hold workshops, and presenting or keynoting at conferences, I give private speeches at companies, talking about open source business models, Italian open source offering and how to build an effective commercial open source strategy.

  Earlier this week I was invited speaker at one of the biggest Italian system integrators, and I want here to take a chance to recap some highlights and few answering questions from the audience.

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  Roberto Galoppini 5:25 pm on February 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Open Source Monitoring: GroundWork 5.3 released, an interview with David Dennis 

  Groundwork, the provider of the open source based network management software, announced  the availability of GroundWork 5.3. The new platform increased scalability, the number of devices managed by a single subscription, and avoids per-node licensing. 

  Reading the press release few questions came up in my mind. I asked David Dennis, senior director of product marketing at Groundwork, more about GroundWork’s customer base, how GroundWork keeps pace with open source innovation and how GroundWork benefits from using the BitRock Network Service.

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    Mark Hinkle 4:48 pm on February 16, 2009 Permalink

    Roberto,
    Very astute observation the fact that while we get classified the same we obviously have very different paths to market:

    “so that firms like Zenoss and GroundWork seem to use just the same model – i.e. differentiating on features their commercial and community products. On the contrary they use different open source production models, resulting in different core capabilities and configuration of activities (see “what is an open source business model” for more references on business models’ building blocks).”

    Best Regards, Mark

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    Roberto Galoppini 12:35 pm on February 17, 2009 Permalink

    Hi Mark,

    glad you appreciate my analysis. I think there are many other differences between GroundWork and Zenoss paths to market, though.

    Talking about sponsored open source projects, I read that in three days from now you will be running your first Zenoss Community Day. Don’t forget to ping me later to tell me more about it.