Commercial Open Source SoftwareWhere Free Software meets Businessequally critical of proprietary and open source myths,advocating software choice beyondmarketing and romanticismMEPs petition, IST Event, European Journal of ePractice on Efficiency and Effectiveness: European Open Source links 17-09-2008- September 17, 2008 FR: ICT 2008 - The European Commission&8217;s Directorate General Information Society and Media is organizing the biennial ICT Event, formerly known as the &8220;IST Event&8220;. The event, the most important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level, will take place in Lion on 25-27 November. European Journal of ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/17/meps-petition-ist-event-european-journal-of-epracti... Open Source Systems Management: Hyperic generates Momentum Europe-wide- September 16, 2008 Hyperic, the provider of open source web infrastructure management software, is receiving growing attention in Europe, as results from an announcement about over seas expansion earlier this year, involving the European partner France&8217;s Dalet Digital Media Systems. Jeff Santelices, VP of Business Development, gave me an overview about how Hyperic is building their channel and why ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/16/open-source-systems-management-hyperic-generates-mo... Open Source Links: 15-09-2008- September 15, 2008 Building Google Chrome: A first look - A look at Chromium, the open source flavor of Chrome. No crunch with open source - John Powell on Alfresco&8217;s trends and the ECM market at large, Business Intelligence: Open Source Alternatives - an essay on Open Source BI products.http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/15/open-source-links-15-09-2008/ Open Source Skills: How frequent is Open Source Self-Sufficiency- September 12, 2008 Bernard Golden, Navica CEO and known open source expert, in his recent report &8220;Open Source in the Enterprise&8221; dedicates a section to open source skills, returning interesting evidence of actual use of open source within enterprises. In the last Open Source Census Newsletter, Bernard Golden says (bold emphasis is mine): We did this to harvest evidence of ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/12/open-source-skills-how-frequent-is-open-source-self... OpenOffice.org Conferences: Native-Lang Project Members meet at Bolzano, 3 October- September 11, 2008 The PLIO Association (Italian OpenOffice.org Native-Lang Project) is pleased to invite everyone involved in the Native-Lang Confederation to join the meeting that will be held in BolzanoBozen (Italy) on October 3rd, 2008. Goal of the meeting is to prepare the discussion topics that will be brought to Beijing: some European Native-Lang project members won&8217;t be able ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/11/openofficeorg-conferences-native-lang-project-membe... PostgreSQL Events: European PostgreSQL Day, Prato, 17-18 October- September 11, 2008 ITPUG, the Italian PostgreSQL association, is inviting everybody to join the PostgreSQL Day 2008 in Prato (Italy), on 17th and18th of October by the Monash University Prato Centre. Prato, S. Stefano Cathedral by Vygotskij - The Fool on the Hill The second edition of the Italian PGDay, thanks to the collaboration between ITPUG and PostgreSQL Europe ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/11/postgresql-events-european-postgresql-day-prato-17-... Masters Course in Open Source: Orvieto- September 10, 2008 The &8220;Centro Studi Citt di Orvieto&8221; - a center for higher education and research, located in the medieval city of Orvieto (Italy) -on Saturday will host a one day event dedicated to the economic impact of open source on innovation and the competitiveness of local Hi-Tech SMEs. Orvieto (Duomo) by Mirjam75 The event will bring together entrepreneurs, ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/10/masters-course-in-open-source-orvieto/ European Summit on Interoperability in the iGovernment, Rome 20-22 October- September 9, 2008 ESIIG 2, the Second European Summit on Interoperability in the iGovernment, represents an unprecedented occasion to develop new synergies and create contacts with representatives of the European Commission, of the national and regional governments of Europe, of the research field, the Academia and experts of the ICT sector. Regione Lazio, Regional Ministry for Consumer Protection ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/09/european-summit-on-interoperability-in-the-igovernm... European Open Source Think Tank: Paris, 21-23 September- September 9, 2008 The Olliance Group is organizing the Europe Open Source Think Tank 2008, in a format developed and refined at the Open Source Think Tank Napa event, held each spring for the last three years. The European Open Source Think Tank will be held in Paris this September 21st, 22nd and 23rd at the Paris ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/09/european-open-source-think-tank-paris-21-23-septemb... Open Source Business: About the Five Ws- September 8, 2008 Reading Matt Asay&8217;s speculations about making money off open source, or conversely Stormy Peters arguing about who is going to pay open source production of code, I remembered about the five (or six) Ws formula (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How). Few good questions by Oberazzi Talking about making money from open source we often take ...http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/08/open-source-business-about-the-five-ws/ |