Zarafa, the fastest growing commercial Linux-based groupware company in Europe, has benefited from the growing demand of organizations for integrated open source software. In the last four months dozens of software vendors and developers in open source projects have integrated or packaged software to Zarafa’s open source email and calendar solution.
Recent conversations at OSCON, which I've attended since 2004, as well as observations through talks with vendors, users and developers in open source all indicate a common theme: With commercial successes for open source software come some community growing pains.
The 451 Group covers GOSCON, the Government Open Source Conference: "Yet, based on my conversations and interactions at GOSCON and others in the public IT sector, there are still many government users that are ready and willing to use open source software, but need more commercial assurance behind it."
Editor’s note: Heather Meeker is a shareholder and chair of the IP/IT Licensing and Transactions Group in the international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, and a leading authority on open-source software licensing.
Startups stand on the shoulders of giants, developing proprietary applications on top of a software landscape that heavily leverages open source components.
Colleges and universities have long been proficient contributors to free and open source software projects, dating back to the early days of the Internet, so it should come as no surprise that they create open source software no meet their own operational needs.
Overall, I’ve developed (no pun intended) a preference for using open source tools and components whenever it’s feasible. Here are some of the reasons why I prefer to develop with open source code:
I have been a developer for a number of years (yes, it’s a large-ish number) and I’ve worked on teams that have developed software on commercial platforms, on teams that have used a mixture of op
I have many friends who are interested in finding work as professional translators. It occurred to me that they could get some useful volunteer experience by translating Open Source software and documentation.
Most are CS students. They like computers, but Linux is unknown to them. All are fairly fluent in at least 2 languages.
NUREMBERG, Germany and CUPERTINO, Calif., October 20, 2009 – Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software.
Hi Friends,
I would love to know if you happen to be an open source software contributor/programmer to any of the open source projects out there. How did you become a contributor? Where did you learn a particular programming language? Have you ever developed a software or a mobile app on your own only, not in a company/professional environment, but strictly coded it alone in your free time?
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