Roberto Galoppini

Username galoppini
Follow

All comments 36
Comments by Roberto Galoppini 17
Comments on Roberto Galoppini's content 19

Comments

Roberto Galoppini commented on Eclipse09 Jeff Koons, ’Baloon Dog’. Grand Canal, Venice. Learning to make baloon sculptures is easy, even kids can manage to. But baloon creations require you to buy them (very few toys shop have Qualatex baloons in stock) learn how to inflate them (not trivial, but a pump makes it really easy), to twist them (only four knots, but you need some practice to create an Harley!). At the end of the day, many just buy them from baloon modelers at malls or magicians or jugglers making street-shows. Publishers (search for baloon sculptures on Amazon or your local bookstore), entertainment agencies, clowns and magician shops are making a living with baloons in many different ways. Not differently there are so many ways to make a living from open source software, that’s why nearly all open source is commercial. 2 months ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Migrating To OpenOffice .org Also national laws recommending open standards. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Migrating To OpenOffice .org The title says "Supposed problems", to mean that those are often mentioned as open issues. Actually most of them are not big problems today. I hoped the title was self-explicative. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Migrating To OpenOffice .org I am afraid there is no study like that yet (MS to MS). Why? Because CIOs think like Mr Ebihara: "Tsu ka e ba na le ru" (You get used to it if you use it). On my blog a link to a post talking about the Microsoft to Microsoft shift. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Migrating To OpenOffice .org I am afraid there is no study like that yet (MS to MS). Why? Because CIOs think like Mr Ebihara: "Tsu ka e ba na le ru" (You get used to it if you use it). On my blog a link to a post talking about the Microsoft to Microsoft shift. http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/11/13/open-source-migration-openofficeorg-migration-part-0/ 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise The absence of a wide enterprise grade commercial support opened new opportunities, allowing firms like BlackDuck, OpenLogic, Palamida, SpikeSource and SourceLabs to offer “horizontal” services not related to a single package. For example, firms offering intellectual assets protection take deliver assessment services for many if not all packages. Their business model might be considered “horizontal”, as opposite to the classical (vertical) business model, where a firm offers every kind of services for a single package/distribution. These companies will play an important to role in the developing of an efficient and effective open source ecosystem. Nonetheless traditional forms of partner engagement might not work, and things like Open Source Franchising (http://tinyurl.com/2cy4f7) will definitely come to play, soon. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise A recent estimation of the real number of active and stable projects out there set the number to 18000, but on the other side we know the only half of top packages has enterprise support. Sources: (http://robertogaloppini.net) http://tinyurl.com/2u6v7a http://tinyurl.com/yooh43 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise The EC-funded project tOSSad (Towards Open Source Software Adoption and Dissemination), aimed at improving the outcomes of the F/OSS communities. Among TOSSAD proposed solutions using mass media and branding of Open Source products has a prominent role Source: http://tossad.org 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise Firenze train station, public ads sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Health 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise A connection between the top of the market pyramid to its base is needed: ecosystems are crucial 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise Thousands of developers, thousands of projects.. welcome to the (dispersed) participation age! 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise Is an Open Source Perception shift needed? 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise As results from another Gartner Dataquest graph (http://tinyurl.com/2c75ql ), the compound annual growth rate of open source software will more than quintuple that of proprietary software in the next five years. More important, the growth of the emerging phenomenon of Internal Open Source Development. As shown by an OpenLogic study (http://tinyurl.com/2y8hcy), a quarter of interviewed customers using more than 100 Open Source products can boldly affirm that they saved more than 60% of their IT budget. While 44% of customers using about 1 open source product answered that is “too early to tell”. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise VAR are having big trouble to sell off-the-shelf Linux distro. Besides that retain customers is not easy as soon as they get technologically autonomous. Italian System Integrators and ISV, no matter how big they are, have no capacity to define and sell "packaged services" (http://tinyurl.com/23vhtn) yet. 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise Open Source it is a huge market, by now. Open-source products accounted for a 13 percent share of the $92.7 billion software market in 2006. Predictions set the percent share to 27 in 2011, when revenue is expected to be $169.2 billion. Besides that, another Gartner survey (just 295 respondents in the U.S. and Europe) found that open source software usage stood at 23.6 percent, and this number is set to grow to 25.9 percent over the next year. Source: (eweek) http://tinyurl.com/2c75ql 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise TV Ads against digital "piracy", sponsored by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers 3 years ago
Roberto Galoppini commented on Open Source Enterprise Size matters, let’s talk about open source (market) dimensions 3 years ago

« Prev 1 2 Next »