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John Eckman

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September 22, 2007

Gartner Open Source Summit Keynote

Just a few quick impressions from some of the sessions at the first day of the 2007 Gartner Open Source Summit.

The opening session was Wednesday afternoon with Mark Driver : Gartner’s Open Source Scenario for 2007: Risks and Rewards for Mainstream IT.

This was the session which led to this Network World article and corresponding Slashdot flame-fest. But both missed what I thought was a perfectly rational set of statements:

  1. that commercial software vendors cannot ignore open source as a disruptive innovation
  2. that commercial software vendors are increasingly incorporating open source in a non-trivial fashion, and
  3. that this trend will continue to deepen over the next four years.

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June 21, 2007

Enterprise 2.0 on Open Source

Tagged with: , , , , — John @ 1:59 pm

In addition to the Optaros whitepaper (”Assembling Enterprise 2.0“) I mentioned the other day, those interested in the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and open source should check out my colleague Jeff Potts’ podcast interview with Ian Howells of Alfresco.

In Jeff’s description:

In this podcast we discuss some of the details behind the Liferay-Alfresco-Roller solution Optaros recently implemented for one of our clients . . .

Or Ian’s:

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are hot on everyone’s lips at the moment. In this Podcast I interview Jeff Potts, of Optaros, about an Alfresco application they have delivered that brings together:

  • Alfresco outside the firewall
  • Alfresco inside the firewall
  • Alfresco for document management
  • Alfresco for Web Content Management

In this Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 project, Alfresco is integrated with:

  • Portal – Liferay
  • Blog – Roller
  • Tagging – Alfresco

Specifically we discuss:

  • The goals of the project
  • Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and characteristics of these types of projects
  • The components used in the solution
  • The consumerization of IT – Web 2.0 Components within the Enterprise
  • How to find out more
June 11, 2007

Movable Type Open Source

(via blog.wohlrapp.com among others)

The folks at SixApart have announced that coinciding with the release of Movable Type 4, there will be an open source edition of Movable Type, which will form the basis for the commercial products.

The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce [sic] version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.

I can understand Rod Begbie’s quip (”I’ll take ‘Two Years Too Late’ for $400, please, Alex”) and I too found the inability to spell “open source” correctly rather strange - I guess MovableType doesn’t have built-in spell check, even in 4.0 beta?.
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May 22, 2007

Optaros Alfresco Platinum Partnership

Tagged with: , — John @ 6:06 pm

Via Jeff and Sebastian comes the announcement that Optaros has become a platinum partner of Alfresco.

Check out the press release or hit the Alfresco Partner page on the Optaros site for more info about what kinds of work we’re delivering on Alfresco’s platform.

May 16, 2007

:Vocalo - the station/community formerly known as Chicago Public Radio

Tagged with: , , , , — John @ 10:34 am

(via Reclaim the Media)

I don’t normally blog here about projects Optaros has been involved in, but I think this article in the Current is too good to pass up sharing: “It’s public radio, but with nearly everything different, including the name

It describes the new station/site (in which Optaros was involved) from Chicago Public Radio called :Vocalo.

There will be a website, but it would be wrong to say that it’s the station’s website. Really, it’s the website’s radio station.
The name, :Vocalo, is an invention, essentially “Vocal” with an “o” at the end. It rhymes with “Zocalo,” a Spanish word that in Mexico refers to a town plaza and in Colombia refers to the infrastructure that stabilizes a large building. The colon before the “V” is intentional — a trademarked emoticon.

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