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  Roberto Galoppini 3:47 pm on January 10, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: AndrewAitken ( 2 ), BlackDuck ( 6 ), open source governance, open source licensing ( 5 ), open source strategy ( 8 ), TimYeaton ( 2 )   

  Open Source Acquisitions: How a Caterpillar turns into a Butterfly 

  Black Duck has changed a lot over the last years – recent acquisitions include SpikeSource, Ohloh and today Olliance – and its offer now goes definitely beyond the legal landscape.

  One of the first Commercial Open Source entries enlisted Black Duck among open source players taking advantage of the absence of a corporate actor to develop and offer new services not coding related.

  Black Duck was an intellectual property management firm, OSRM was providing warranty services, SpikeSource was offering software dependability services and OpenLogic was providing support for a number of open source packages. (More …)

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  Roberto Galoppini 7:12 pm on September 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: itil, open source cloud ( 5 ), open source governance   

  Upcoming Open Source Webibernars: BlackDuck, OTRS, Red Hat 

  Platform as a Service: Beyond the Hype, Towards Practical Solutions for the Cloud – Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research will cut through the hype surrounding Cloud computing with practical advice. Registrants will get a copy of the report “Top Priority For Cloud Planning: Integrate Cloud Computing Into Existing Architecture Strategies“.
  Tuesday, September 21 2010, 10:00 am EDT

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:49 pm on October 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: dla piper ( 2 ), fossbazaar ( 2 ), MarkRadcliffe ( 2 ), open source governance   

  Open Source Webinars: Top 10 Open Source Governance Issues 

  Mark Radcliffe on Thursday 29 at 9 AM (PST) will lead the “The Top 10 Issues Confronting Users of Open Source” webinar. DLA Piper and FOSSBazaar are co-hosting this one hour event aimed at discussing major mistakes companies make in managing the use of open source as well as best practices.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 12:39 pm on June 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Alfresco ( 7 ), AndreaRossi, AndreaValboni, BudBruegger ( 2 ), CarloVaccari ( 2 ), CCOS, CodePlex ( 4 ), FlossLab, ForumPA ( 6 ), GijsHillenius, MarcoGentili, MichaelBemmer ( 3 ), open source governance, open source procurement ( 7 ), openoffice ( 44 ), osor ( 7 ), OsvaldoGervasi ( 2 ), sourceforge download statistics, Vimercati   

  Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases 

  As mentioned in a previous post, ForumPA - the greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration – asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.

  Italian and international speakers provided the audience with an insight into how to effectively deploy open source software in a significant way.

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    Zubair Siddique 6:47 am on November 4, 2010 Permalink

    That was very informative and well written. Mentioned below is an excerpt of an article on Open source software:
    “Open source has today become a necessity for most businesses. It is estimated that 99 percent of all companies using software use atleast one open source component. The business value added by open source products makes them inevitable for every company. In addition to software, open source has today expanded its tentacles to many areas from open text books to open drug discovery and is fast spreading to other areas……to read more please visit http://www.sinapseblog.com/2010/10/open-source-business-reality.html“

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  Roberto Galoppini 9:17 pm on June 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: GregOlsen, KimWeins, open source governance   

  Webinars: Open Source Governance, by OpenLogic and Olliance Group 

  OpenLogic on the 17th of June will run a webinar to cover the most important elements essential to manage an enterprise open source governance program.

  Register on line.

   
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  Roberto Galoppini 11:26 am on May 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Open Source Adoption ( 5 ), open source governance, open source procurement ( 7 ), public tender, Software Selection ( 9 )   

  European Open Source Procurement Guidelines: How Do you Like Them? 

  Talking about Alfresco’s business strategy I happened to mention that the European open source observatory released guidelines for open source procurement.

  The OSOR guideline draws on the extensive analysis conducted by the Dutch government’s OSOSS in 2005, followed by a guide published later by the successor organization to the OSOSS program (Netherlands Open in Verbinding).

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  Roberto Galoppini 12:08 pm on April 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: avoid lock-in, BudBruegger ( 2 ), eId, open source governance, open source identity management, open source policies, OSOR Case Study, OSOR Forge   

  Open Source Case Study and Open Source Governance 

  The OSOR Case Studies section this month covers Grosseto’s OpenPortalGuard eID system. The case study tells the story about an Italian case of excellence, started in 2003 when  the Italian government decided to introduce eID cards. Grosseto, to acquire an eID-based access control system for its ICT infrastructure, applied a rigorous open source strategy, aiming to cut implementation and operational costs.

  Is it a sustainable choice for small public administrations?

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  Roberto Galoppini 5:09 pm on March 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: coopetition ( 2 ), European SMEs, innovation ( 3 ), open source communities ( 7 ), open source governance, open source markets, open source offering, stefanomiceli   

  Open Source Offering: Facts, Fear and Affirmative Action 

  “Open Source Offering in Italy: an Analysis of an evolving Sector” conference follow-up are addressed by Stefano Micelli on first draft blog. Stefano brings me in because of something I said at the conference, commenting a research finding saying that small firms tend not to partner with other firms.

  Affirmative action is needed to enable “lucrative coopetition“, in order to reduce R&D costs and foster innovation?

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  Roberto Galoppini 3:51 pm on March 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CNIPA ( 4 ), DotNetNuke, google trends, lucrative coopetition ( 2 ), ohloh ( 4 ), open source communities ( 7 ), open source gap, open source governance, sugarCRM ( 2 )   

  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 5:22 pm on March 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Black Duck ( 2 ), Indemnification, Koders, martenmickos ( 4 ), MikeOlson ( 2 ), Open Sourcd M&A, open source governance, Tim Yeaton   

  Open Source Governance: Black Duck keeps Quacking, an interview with Tim Yeaton 

  Black Duck Software, the intellectual property management firm headquartered near Boston with offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong – announced the release of the Black Duck Suite, a unified framework bringing together three Black Duck products (Black Duck Code Center, Export and Protex).

  Black Duck ‘s survey conducted among software developers gathered at the SD West Conference held this week in Santa Clara (California),  revealed little awareness about compliance, security and management problems. Actually those issues are addressed by Black Duck products and services, and I asked Tim Yeaton, one of the new CEO met at the open source think tank last week, to tell how he sees the market changing and how Black Duck strategy fits in the big picture.

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