Open Source Business Intelligence: SpagoBI
SOS Open Source has been asked to evaluate SpagoBI, an Italian open source business intelligence suite, this is an excerpt of the report. SpagoBI belongs to the SpagoWorld initiative, an effort conducted by Engineering to create a collection of open source applications enterprise ready.
[update - 25 October 2011: SpagoBI is gaining traction in Italy and abroad (see download top ten at OW2), forums are more popular, and its adoption is documented and happens also on the other side of the pond. Webinars and online documentation makes easier to try it, both project sustainability and industrialization are improved] »
Open Source Monitoring: Icinga vs Nagios
Recently a customer asked a comparison between Nagios Core to Icinga Core, and we got granted the opportunity to make these findings available to the general public through SOS Open Source.
Some background information on Nagios and Icinga. Nagios – whose name is a recursive acronym (“Nagios Ain’t Gonna Insist On Sainthood”) ironically refers to the original name NetSaint changed to avoid trademark troubles – is among the most popular open source network management tools and application. Nagios has been designed and developed by Ethan Galstad over the last 11 years. Recently Ethan started to empower other developers, a transition that is slowly happening. Icinga is a Nagios fork born over one year ago, which aim was and is to make it a community-led project, probably not devoid of business logic. »
Open Source Wiki: XWiki
SOS Open Source analyzed XWiki, the open-source Java wiki platform maintained by the homonymous company, born in France in 2004 and now based in France and Romania.
Let’s start from the source code. XWiki code base is stable and mature. While the are no books specialized on XWiki, there are few books covering XWiki basics and case-studies available (also from 3rd parties).
XWiki popularity compares well to others in its class, despite the news volume is low.
