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Highlights from 2008
Throughout 2008, OSA Alert has featured many insightful interviews with key open solutions industry leaders, pundits and customers.
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OSA MEMBER INTERVIEW
Report on Open Source Market in Europe
Talend CEO Bertrand Diard explains the major differences between the open source markets in Europe and the United States -- greater government participation and an abundance of languages and business practices -- and the big similiarity -- the demand for interoperability -- that effects the entire industry. |
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OSA ANALYST INTERVIEW
Open Source Adoption in Small-to-Medium-Size Market
The 451 Group's Open Source Research Director Raven Zachary discusses the challenges of OS adoption in the SMB market -- including what he calls the SMB complexity conundrum, the dominance of Microsoft, and average deal size -- and how to overcome them.
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Collaborative Networks: The Future of the Corporation
Recent reports from McKinsey and Gartner separately point to an important trend toward collaborative problem solving, reports Michael Grove, CEO of CollabWorks. OSA and its Common Customer View project make excellent examples of the collaboration trend. | |
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INDUSTRY RESEARCH REPORT
Six Drivers of Open Source Adoption Identified
Using industry interviews and data mining of job postings, an O'Reilly Radar Report written by Bernard Golden of Navica finds significant increases in open source adoption among non-technology enterprises, identifies six drivers of OSS adoption, and lays out three adoption strategies for companies with various open source needs. |
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OSA CUSTOMER INTERVIEW
Tales of an OSS Platform Conversion
Having shepherded the eighteen news text, photo and video servers of Reuter's Media from a proprietary to open source platform, Leon Shklar, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Technology, Media, shares a few insights from the frontlines of a busy, international news organization with a mission-critical server architecture.
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OSA CUSTOMER MEMBER INTERVIEW
Opportunities Abound for Survivors
The CIO and Finance Officer of one of the UK's largest independent stockbrokers provide an insiders perspective on the impact of the financial crisis on OSS stocks, and on the opportunities and dangers lurking in the market. "The trend now favors the open source supplier," says Michael Wheeler. |
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OSA MEMBER INTERVIEW
Subscriptions, Hosting and Solutions with Rapid Payback Will Flourish
Leading up to the credit and stock market crunches, Adaptive Planning racked up its best quarter ever based on the strength of its SaaS pricing model and hosted solutions. CEO Bill Soward says those strategies, along with new solutions offering rapid payback for customers will see OSS companies through the lean times.
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New Leadership
As the OSA's founding President, Dominic Sartorio of SpikeSource, completes his run, a new leadership team takes over this month. Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager of open source business at Unisys, now fills the position of President. The organization has also formalized several other leadership roles, including:
- Marketing Chair: Scott Barnett, co-founder and COO of Bluenog
- Community Development Chair: Gopi Ganapathy, founder and CEO of Essentia
- Interoperability Co-Chairs: Mike Moody, Jaspersoft, and Uwe Vielle, Unisys
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| Copyright 2008. OSA Alert is published by the Open Solutions Alliance. Please contact the editor, Henry Ruddle, with your questions, comments and reprint requests. | | 
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