Other Community Contributions

Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) Evaluation Center

... OSI Certification (license) Other Other application server Other certification Other certification program Other community contributions Other customization ... http://foss.technologyevaluation.com/ - 31k - 2009-03-09

Interview with Louis Suárez-Potts of OpenOffice.org and CollabNet

by Josh Chalifour ... development of the source by enjoining contributions via the ... you should pay for that, not exploit the community. ... it's good to have these other communities, but ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2005/07/research_notes/RN_FS_JC_07_28_05_1.asp - 42k - 2005-07-28 Summary: Louis Suárez-Potts speaks about the political and social architecture of open source communities as well as practices for successful oversight of a project. He covers specific examples from his role as community development manager for the OpenOffice.org project.

A Spoonful of SugarCRMCase Study and Review of an Open Source CRM ...

by Josh Chalifour ... effort to grow its partner community, especially in ... credence to wisely managing their open source project contributions. ... from many of the other well-recognized ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2004/11/research_notes/PN_FS_JC_11_30_04_1.asp - 26k - 2004-11-30 Summary: SugarCRM is a rapidly growing open source CRM company with solutions that appeal to a community of enthusiastic users. This study, based on a client who selected the Sugar Sales Professional CRM solution, compares product functionality to the competition and highlights some of SugarCRM's open source busi

Interview with Karl Fogel of Subversion and CollabNet

by Josh Chalifour ... said paying attention to developers' contributions is at ... facilitates the social aspect of the development community. What are some other areas that you think ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2005/07/research_notes/RN_FS_JC_07_27_05_1.asp - 33k - 2005-07-27 Summary: Karl Fogel is a founding developer of the Subversion project and is employed by CollabNet. In the following interview, Karl covers key social aspects of coordinating developers as well as the difficulties and advantages of managing an open source, distributed development project.

TEC Talks to the Compiere ERP/CRM ProjectFree and Open Source ...

by Josh Chalifour ... but they killed themselves quite effectively through contributions. ... example, you have newsletters, what other ways do you communicate with your community? ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2004/09/research_notes/VN_FS_JC_09_09_04_1.asp - 30k - 2004-09-09 Summary: Compiere project leader, Jorg Janke, reveals to TEC the advantages and difficulties in developing an ERP solution as Open Source software. Jorg explains some of the intricacies in modeling a business around servicing mature Open Source software.

The CMO–CIO Organizational Alignment Mandate

by Glen Petersen ... For many in the marketing community, the answer is brand equity and ROI. ... Typically, the other functions view these contributions as follows: ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2007/07/research_notes/MI_EV_XGP_07_04_07_1.asp - 14k - 2007-07-04 Summary: Chief information officer reporting relationships continue to be distanced from the strategy function. The marketing function is experiencing this same distancing from strategy. However, the two functions should be on the leading edge of strategy, rather than the receiving end.

TEC Talks to the Open For Business ProjectFree and Open Source ...

by Josh Chalifour ... will contribute it to the project and other people that ... really become a much more active community with more ... We had quite a few contributions on the framework ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/FreeOpenSource/2004/09/research_notes/VN_FS_JC_09_07_04_1.asp - 33k - 2004-09-07 Summary: In conversation with the Open For Business (OFBiz) project leader, David Jones, TEC discovers some of the challenges in raising an open source enterprise software solution. Mr. Jones explains his vision in this first part of three articles on maintaining a business centered around Free and open source so

Great Plains – An SME Market Leader, But At What Cost?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... in our core business and gained solid contributions from our ... tools to the mid-market customer community (For more ... and sales, with a number of other CRM modules ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/10/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_10_05_00_1.asp - 27k - 2000-10-05 Summary: Great Plains has established itself as a global small-to-medium enterprises (SME) market leader. It now derives almost 20% of revenue outside of the US market and has the potential of reaching $300 million in revenues in fiscal 2001. Its extensive and efficient global indirect channel model that consists

Best Software Delivers More Insights To Its Partners (As Well As ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... his keynote presentation lauded partner contributions to the ... rent their classroom space to other certified trainers ... and the accounting community, BSAN provides ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/07/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_07_24_03_1.asp - 18k - 2003-07-24 Summary: Several months after having unveiled its 'customer and/or partner for life' strategy blueprint at the end of 2002, Best Software recently organized its first annual Insights 2003 conference and briefed its partners on the actual steps of executing its strategy to prop itself up against the inevitable fac

NAPM Puts The Spotlight On Change

by J. Dowling & S. McVey ... to include the needs and potential contributions of these ... of consideration as they do for other capital investments ... interest to the Purchasing Community include ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2001/03/news_analysis/NA_EV_JFD_03_12_01_1.asp - 12k - 2001-03-12 Summary: TEC VP, James F. Dowling is quoted in the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) magazine Purchasing Today on the meaning of “Value”. The quote was in the context of how the understanding of the meanings of words change over time.