Enterprise Open Source Alternatives

SOS Open Source get started by talking about why open source selection matters and then giving tips to find open source software and suggestions about how to evaluate open source.

Later we shared excerpts from evaluation reports ranging from software quality tools and wiki platforms, to how to select project management alternatives and open source forks.

The goal of this article is to share ways of finding open source candidates and how to compute metrics. Read more

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.

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How to Find Open Source Software

Discovering which open source software do you use maybe an “easy” game to play – using products like OSS Discovery Audit Edition scanning for over 330,000 open source projects to produce a baseline inventory of open source usage or also Krugle Basic providing basic code discovery and code duplication capabilities – but find useful open source packages can be trickier to master. Read more

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  • "Software De Código Aberto: Melhores Diretórios E Listas Para Encontrar E Avaliar Programas Open Source" MasterNewMedia.br, May 2011
  • "Open Source Software Tools And Directories: Where To Find Them, How To Evaluate Them" MasterNewMedia, March 2011
  • "The role of Open Source and Free software in today’s world, excellences, issues and frontiers to cross: an expert talk with Roberto Galoppini" Meedabyte, February 2011
  • "IT: Updated law presses public administrations to share software" OSOR News, February 2011
  • "SOS Open Source" TodoBI, January 2011
  • "The choice engine is an Italian job" ZDNet, October 2010
  • "Open Source Project Filtering" Content Here, July 2010
  • "Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal" OSTATIC, May 2010
  • "Picking the right open source projects" Infoworld, April 2010
  • "This Roman knows how to spot the best open source" ZDNet, April 2010
  • "Funambol Scores High In Galoppini SOS Open Source Software Evaluation" Funambol Press Release, April 2010

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• About the author

  Roberto has over 25 years experience in the IT field, and has spent the last 12 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he has served on advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. After serving as Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge for over 4 years, in 2016 he started a new company called Business Follows., whose mission is to is to help developers, companies and organizations to make Open Source development a key part of their business strategies. He is the editor of commercial open source blog.

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