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Drupal, Acquia, and 2009
Posted 01 Jan 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Blogs, Business Model, Community, Content Management, Drupal, Enterprise applications, Open Source, Platform, Social Networking

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent "Predictions for 2009" blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia's support offering. Read more ...

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source Read more ...

Open Source Catalogue 2009 generates high interest and confirms the relevance of Open Source for Enterprises
Posted 06 Dec 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Customer Relationship Management, EOS, IT Strategy, Open Source, Open Source Katalog

One week ago we published the "Open Source Katalog 2009" for our German language audiences. And we are really excited about the enormous echo that this offline version of our online resource "Enterprise Open Source Directory" (EOS) generated. In few days almost 5'000 copies were downloaded and the press in both Switzerland and Germany was "speaking" about the new version of the catalogue. Read more ...

Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston
Posted 25 Nov 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise applications, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, IT Strategy, Open Source, Platform

Next week, I'll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference - "Where Content Management Meets Social Media." The panel is scheduled for Thursday, December 4th, from 3:30-5:00pm. The panelists will be: Read more ...

Open Source ecommerce – OXID, another significant OSS storefront platform
Posted 02 Nov 2008 by Adam Michelson | Tags: Ecommerce, eTail, Magento, OFBiz, Open Source, osCommerce, Retail

There is a new and exciting entrant in the open source software (OSS) ecommerce market. OXID (http://www.oxid-esales.com), a leading ecommerce solution out of Germany has announced that it is releasing an open source version (http://www.oxid-esales.com/en/news/blog#). The ecommerce storefront is certainly not a new concept. Read more ...

UK Open Source Consulting
Posted 20 Oct 2008 by Peter Short | Tags: Open Source

Optaros is building momentum in the United Kingdom. We have had a successful start to the UK open source consulting business and are working with some great companies. We are an open source consulting firm that helps companies seize business agility. We design and assemble business solutions by leveraging open source components, allowing rapidly deliver of value to our customers which meet the growing expectations of a richer user experience. Read more ...

Recession fears will boost open source business solution adoption
Posted 15 Oct 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Assembly Methodology, CIO, Open Source

The news is full of reports on the financial crisis, recession fears and economic downturn symptoms. CEOs and CIOs are preparing for a serious negative impact on their business. Initially the problems were with financial institutions only, but more and more the issues are hitting larger audiences. Will IT buying centers and business managers cut investments in IT in general or how will they deal with the crisis?Let’s start with some facts and hypotheses: Read more ...

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). Read more ...

Optaros ‘open sources’ DoCASU 1.0, a RIA User Interface for Alfresco ECM
Posted 15 Jul 2008 by Bruno von Rotz | Tags: Ajax, Alfresco, Content Management, DoCASU, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, REST, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0, Web Scripts

Open Source software has many advantages compared to proprietary alternatives. The fact that the source code is open might often not even be the most relevant benefit. The ability to access functions and componentized services through open APIs (application programming interfaces) allows to focus development efforts on what is most important for the usage of the application – the user interface – for example. Read more ...

CIO Open Source Interview Part 1 - Project Scope
Posted 07 Jul 2008 by Marc Osofsky | Tags: Assembly Methodology, Open Source, Red Hat

I had a chance recently to catch up with Steve Snyder, the CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (an Optaros client). Steve was quite candid in his remarks. In this short clip, he describes the large scope of the project he is undertaking. Read more ...

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, JBoss, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. Read more ...

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Read more ...

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Alfresco, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Content Management, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Open Innovation, Open Source, Platform, Video, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a role to play in the overall shift in the direction of Enterprise 2.0 knowledge worker applications through the notion of content services and social services: Read more ...

Slides from the Open Source ECM event
Posted 26 Jun 2008 by Jeff Potts | Tags: Alfresco, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Liferay, Open Source, Ringside Networks, Social Networking

I want to thank everyone for attending the Alfresco-hosted Open Source ECM event in Dallas this morning. In case you missed it, the slides I presented on "Assembling Enterprise 2.0 Solutions with Alfresco" are available at share.acrobat.com (which is built on Alfresco, BTW) and embedded below. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Read more ...

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