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- If+you+don%27t+like+it%2C+fork+it
- If+you+don%27t+like+it%2C+fork+itAmicable forksDo keep in mind that some forks are made, not over disagreement, but over the need to move the project forward. Two that come to mind are the [i]egcc[/i] fork of [i]gcc[/i] and the recent fork of [i]Apache[/i]. IIRC Samba may have had one of these, too.In...
- Tags: Mozilla Branch, Compiere, open source, If+you+don%27t+like+it%2C+fork+it, fork
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Sizing an open source company is not always easy
- So, how many people you got?It was an innocent question near the end of a friendly breakfast interview next to the Atlanta Airport.How many people work for you?Compiere principal Jorg Janke's spokesman piped up. "About 150.""Well," said Janke. "Not exactly." If you go to Compiere's Portland office, in a small...
- Tags: partnership, Jorg Janke, Compiere
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
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- News to know: IBM; Microsoft; Googlehoo; Safari; Enterprise 2.0
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art. Gallery right. Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Open source ERP rivals Compiere, OpenBravo expand partner networks
- Two leading open source ERP players are working to expand their solutions and partner ecosystems. On Wednesday, Compiere, a Redwood Shores, Calif. company whose management is comprised of many ex Oracle execs such as President and CEO Don Klaiss, announced an upgrade of its ERP and CRM...
- Tags: Network, ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Can Sourceforge marketplace open the cash drawer?
- Sourceforge has always been more about traffic than money. No more. Sourceforge.Net Marketplace registers those with skills, organizes the skills into categories (even non-programming categories) and tries to make money from the deals which result. The system launches with over 600 listings...
- Tags: SourceForge, Sourceforge.Net Marketplace, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Tools & Techniques, B2B, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Apatar Data Mashup Integration (exe)
- Apatar is the open source leader in data mashup integration. Apatar brings ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) functions and allows easily join your desktop data with the Web. Connectors include Salesforce.com, Amazon, MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Compiere, SugarCRM, Oracle, XML, CSV and even Flickr. Visual job designer and mapping...
- Tags: Integration, Mashup, Apatar, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-04-23
- CentricCRM Does Well In IBM Posse
- CentricCRM Does Well In IBM Posseis this for real"IBM’s is like the company itself, quiet, corporate, and shy unless they have something to say."They are nothing but political. I dont see much IT innovation moves from them, just politics that they play.HP is the now the biggest IT company (revenue...
- Tags: Linux, Strategy, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Where are the open source VARs?
- Where are the open source VARs?Consumer Driven Health CareI work with/for a company called AmeriplanUSA who offers consumer driven health care. The benefits are for anyone! No limitations or paper work and it's not insurance. Ameriplan allows Those who are uninsured or underinsured to have health benefits at an affordable...
- Tags: Retail, Channel management, Novell Inc., benefit, value-added reseller, open source, open source VAR
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- Ludd vs. open source
- Ludd vs. open sourceDamage by choice of those damaged.Your comparison would be more apt if the Luddites had volunteered to work with the machinery without pay, knowing that by doing so they were taking jobs from and lowering the pay of people just like themselves.That's not true of all open...
- Tags: Strategy, open source, competitive advantage, software
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- AMR: SOA will kill ERP
- Bruce Richardson of AMR Research predicts the unthinkable: that "rapid adoption of SOA will lead to the end of the ERP market as we know it." "Here’s the doomsday scenario, circa 2010: SAP and Oracle customers have stopped buying applications from their ERP vendors. Instead, they contract with low-cost Indian...
- Tags: SOA, ERP
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- The Collapse of Competition
- At the same time that free and open source software is growing, the old proprietary model is collapsing. (That's a model for a collapsing universe. Learn more here.) Alfresco CTO John Newton is frank about it. “John Powell, the former COO of Business Objects and I, were looking at opportunities...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Open Source Fiasco
- Hugger-Mugger Yoga Products is a $5 million supplier of yoga-related products such as clothes, yoga mats, and so on. After struggling with a variety of individual software products that did not integrate well, the company decided to implement open source ERP package Compiere. This package was chosen on basis...
- Tags: Project failures, Open Source
- Blog posts 2006-08-17
- Hey, where's my applications app, dude?
- The breadth but not depth issue on Internet information I've been on about this week has an interesting parallel in open source development. Look at either freshmeat or sourceforge and you see an incredible variety of projects including several thousand offering real, downloadable, and immediately useful applications. In addition to...
- Tags: data definition, open source
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- Red Hat scoops up JBoss
- Red Hat scoops up JBossWell saidCouldn't agree more.Software companies should not try to do both open source and proprietary.It causes way too much hesitation and lost opturnities trying to not do anything with open source that would hurt the proprietary business. Novel should have a program to open source...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Middleware, JBoss, Microsoft Corp., open source, MS DOES, vaccine, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- Time for an SOA-open source mashup
- Time for an SOA-open source mashupSOA needs an ESB and MessagingJoe -Thank you for your insights on Open Source SOA. I agree, and projects like Apache and Linux demonstrate, that mission-critical infrastructure is an excellent fit for the benefits of the Open Source model. There are other important technology components...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Fred M. Domke, Apatar, open source, mashup
- Discussion threads 2005-12-31
- Who is threatened by open source now? SAP
- Who is threatened by open source now? SAPThreat to Systems Integration ??Its a known fact the costs of systems integration are quite high. in such a scenario Open source will play a major role. Although right now its not visible but definitely it wont take loooong to dawn the benifits...
- Tags: IT Services, Enterprise software, Small-Company, SAP AG, open source, systems integration, software
- Discussion threads 2005-11-10
- Commercial open source, a misnomer?
- Commercial open source, a misnomer?They are just exploiters!By the open source charter, any s/w based on open source should be free! It cannot be half free and half commercial. They should charge only for service. The charter clearly says that they should provide free any drivative products. Commercialism is a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Commercialism, open source, SugarCRM, software, OSS
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
- OSBC: enterprise applications next wave for open source
- This morning kicked off the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, where a mixed crowd of IT enterprise customers and vendors, lawyers, and venture capitalists rubbed elbows as they contemplated open source market strategies. In his keynote, Larry Augustin, CEO of Medsphere, left everyone with no doubt that...
- Tags: Larry Augustin, open source
- Blog posts 2005-04-05
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