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 | | Open Solutions Alliance | July 2008 |
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Three Indicators of Increased Open Source Software Adoption in the Enterprise | OSA MEMBER INTERVIEW
Black Duck Customer Activity: An OSS Bellwether
Development tool maker Black Duck reported an annual increase of 142 percent in its customer base in June. Vice President of Marketing Peter Vescuso concurs that the company's sales, along with the frenetic activity of customers using its KnowledgeBase of open source code, are definitely positive signs of open source software adoption at the enterprise level. |  |
| OSA INDUSTRY SURVEY
OSS Business Thrives in Tough Economic Times
In the first annual survey of its membership and other open source software and services companies, the Open Solutions Alliance found much optimism despite a murky economy with 83 percent of participants saying they would see a year-over-year increase in revenue in 2008 of open source related software and services. | |
| 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. | |
| Ingres and Openbravo Win LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards
Two OSA members earned “Linuxworld Product Excellence Awards” on Tuesday, August 7 – Ingres CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) won Best Application Development Tool, and Openbravo Network snagged Best Integration Solution.
Ingres CAFÉ was built by developers, for developers, and is designed to enable fast implementation of a Java Development Environment (JDE) by minimizing configuration issues. It is a tool that brings together in one bundle a pre-configured stack of technologies that can be used by community and professional developers to build feature rich Java applications. Given that they are built on Eclipse and Ingres, the applications developed with Ingres CAFÉ can scale from the desktop to the data-center without modification.
Openbravo Network is a subscription service based on Openbravo’s leading open source ERP product. It bundles access to certified updates and upgrades, and a bug fixing guarantee to ensure the user is always up-to-date. Joining the already released Openbravo SME Network One, the new additions to the Openbravo Network family of products include Openbravo OEM Network and Openbravo Base Network. |
| | Copyright 2008. OSA Alert is published by the Open Solutions Alliance. Please contact the editor, Dominic Sartorio, with your questions, comments and reprint requests. |
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