Enterprise Open Source News

An open letter to open source Notes/Domino

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:47:45 +0000

Ian Tree, chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. has initiated an interesting movement: ask to IBM to transform the Notes/Domino product line into an Open Source, Community Development offering. Notes/Domino has been loosing traction in the past with the rise of Web technologies. Notes/Domino is still a cash cow for IBM. It is probably a large and complex piece of software probably not ready to be managed by a community. Anyway, Ian’s arguments make sense. Read his open letter and vote for or againt the idea on IdeaJam.

Twitter for the enterprise

admin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:03:32 +0000

If your boss come in with a sentence like “Why don’t we have a microblogging platform like Twitter” and that you want to go for an “on premices” solution, have a look at Laconica. Still young, but full featured and pretty stable.

Open Source Collaboration Software Maker Open-Xchange Secures $9 Million

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:33:29 +0000

Open-Xchange has closed a Series B round of venture funding to the tune of $9 million. The round was led by German venture firm eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners AG and joined by BayBG and existing Munich-based investor BayTech Venture Capital. Open-Xchange received a total of $8.8 million in a Series A financing round from angel investors and BayTech back in 2006.

Built as open source software, Open-Xchange aims to provide an alternative to commercial platforms like Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, including features like mobility support (iPhones, Blackberry), document sharing, shared calendars and shared address books.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is available now

admin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:46:25 +0000

The version 3.0 of Open office is out. Some important new fetaures

If Open office 3.0 is still not at Office 2007 level (lake of Smart Shapes for example) or still copying Office 2007 mistakes (still no TOC in Impress, as in Powerpoint), this release is a major one and is confirming that Microsoft has a real competitot when it comes to Office apps.

Google enters the browser (OS) war with Google Chrome

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:35:47 +0000

Google Chrome

I’ve been almost right on that one. Google will launch tomorrow its browser, code named Chrome. Early beta, as usual, but we all know that what Google calls a beta is something like a release 5 in some other IT regions.

Yes. After years of rumors, the browser (and the GoogleOS) will be there.

A comic has been released by Google to some bloggers. It explains very well the concept and what Chrome will bring to user experience.

Of course Chrome will integrate Gears (off line mode), Gtalk, Google Docs and others Google wanna-kill-MS services. And since Google knows, they leveraged open source project (like the great Apple Webkit and the world famous Firefox), and they will give back many thing in open source.

Trust me. Fun is ahead.

Contributing to the Linux kernel the right way

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:15:21 +0000

Linux Foundation Logo

The Linux Foundation is just publishing a guide to contribute to the Linux kernel the right way. If your enterprise is using Linux a lot and some of your people have some code to contribute, this is a must read.
In any case, if you rely on Linux somewhere in your IS, the chapter “How the Development Process Works” is very interesting piece of information.

How to Participate in the Linux Community

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:59:22 +0000

http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/book/how-participate-linux-community

Alfresco creates open source SharePoint clone

admin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:58:44 +0000

Saas and Open Source

admin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:45 +0000

Results from IDC’s 2008 OSS Vendor Survey

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:55:57 +0000

This IDC study reports is very useful to understand business characteristics of open source software vendors today, and inform their decisions about the implications of implementing a strategy that includes revenue from open source software in their businesses.

Access to the report >>