Throwing a net over the digital transformation era
Some days ago I posted “Buy less, spend better”, highlighting one of the main benefits of adopting SpagoBI suite or, in general terms, of choosing an open source product adopting the pure open source delivery model.
Now you can argue that a product with no price has no value either. If you believe it, a short SpagoBI presentation will give you some answers.
No price doesn’t mean no value.… Read the rest
The SpagoWorld initiative vision focuses on the sustainable development of mission-critical applications for enterprises and organizations.
It’s all about project-oriented solutions, balancing the weights in the development phase.
In other words: it’s about asking customers to buy less and spend better.Some days ago, I had a glance at a news referencing the world’s 50 most innovative companies in 2012. My attention was attracted by Patagonia, ranking 14th, according to the following reason: “for selling more by encouraging customers to buy less”.… Read the rest
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platform, February 2012, is out.
This year major OS BI-related vendors as Actuate (BIRT), Jaspersoft, Pentaho are in; SpagoBI, the only pure OS BI product is quoted.
As the SpagoWorld initiative founder, I’m very proud to see SpagoBI suite – SpagoWorld flagship project – included in the Gartner’s report, even if it does not appear in the Magic Quadrant.
Gartner is not a recognized Open Source observer (especially from the OSS actors’ point of view) and the report refers to the whole vendors’ BI market, which are mainly proprietary.… Read the rest
Is Mozilla Foundation fostering a more radical open source approach?
To read my thoughts on open source licenses, have a look at my previous posts here and here .
By introducing the MPL 2.0 license , the Foundation probably intended to work for their community, even though, as a side-effect, they have done much more than this.
Interestingly enough, also because he’s an OSI director, Simon Phipps has concluded his post focusing on the new MPL 2.0 license with the following statement: : “I welcome the MPLv2 as a positive contribution to unifying the common cause of many open source developers.… Read the rest
I’ve already posted something about this here.
Now, I’ll go straight to the point!Proliferation of Open Source licenses is a complete mess, despite initial good intentions (anyway, not all open source licenses are used to foster openness of code and collaboration).
Why so many licenses? Many reasons! (the list of open source licenses here just takes into consideration the OSI approved ones!). Now, are authoritative organizations (including OSI) ready (or willing) to foster a convergence of the existing licenses to one single (or to very few) simplified licenses?… Read the rest