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January 22: No More End Users: OSS Enables New Ways of Cooperating, Carlo Daffara
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| One of the most fascinating thing about
| open source is that it allows the
| collaboration between entities that are in
| many ways anomalous. One of my favorite
| examples of this are the Sakai and Kuali
| consortia, created by large universities
| dissatisfied by their proprietary software
| systems. They found it more economical to
| pull their efforts together and create
| something new instead rather than simply
| continuing to pay for something that
| delivered less than expected. The process
| ended up creating something of value to
| themselves and to other universities and
| groups; it also provided the basis for a
| profitable business for those companies
| selling consulting services.
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http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/1033/992
Open Source Exchanges: Can VARs Profit?
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| When OpenBravo â an open source ERP company
| â launched an open source exchange earlier
| today, The VAR Guy had a case of deja vu.
| From Digium to Red Hat to xTuple, numerous
| open source companies have launched online
| marketplaces for their customers and VARs.
| But can open source exchanges really stir
| application sales? Here are some thoughts.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/25/open-source-exchanges-can-vars-profit/
JBoss and SpringSource
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| Both are owned by corporate parents that
| have large market shares in their
| respective product categories: Linux
| servers for Red Hat, and corporate data
| center virtualization for VMWare,
| respectively, which allows the two
| subsidiaries of the parents to exert some
| sort of free-wheeling and experimentation
| with messaging, such as JBoss' new non-Java
| EE push through other languages, and
| SpringSource's anti-Java EE push through
| their own language, of sorts....but make no
| mistake about the competition, it boils
| down to a heavily intensive fight for the
| mindshare of Java developers worldwide,
| with the eventual victor controlling what
| is left of the corporate IT spend that does
| not go to Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle...this
| is major terrain for the once-small start-
| ups to undertake....
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http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/3955
Recent:
Gnutiken - International GNU Cooperative Sweden
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| Since I ended my internship with the FSFE in May, my main priority has been
| the establishing of a Free Software cooperative in GÃteborg. The result is
| about to unfold itself, and itâs name is Gnutiken, or âthe Gnutiqueâ if you
| want to be English about it. Together with two of my favourite hackers,
| Jeremiah Foster and Patrik Willard, I have been able to establish a
| for-profit NGO (ekonomisk fÃrening), and spent a lot of time wading through
| all the bureaucratic windings needed to start a business. I am now happy to
| say that we are about to launch. We have found a nice shop in central
| GÃteborg and are awaiting the last formal answers to some of our
| applications.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/julipan/gnutiken/
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