SOS Open Source is Back!
Over the last year and a half I have been happily busy with my new job at SourceForge, as a result I had little time to keep analyzing open source projects and write reports.
In the meantime I have been thinking of few ways to keep SOS Open Source live, and I finally found a way to re-use SOS Open Source experience and tools to the benefit of the public.
Having submitted few R&D proposals to the EU, I am glad that among the approved projects is the MARKOS project. In fact the MARKetplace for Open Source project will be a great chance to finally productize some of the SOS Open Source features and ideas.
All MARKOS’ software outcomes will be made available as open source software, look forward to share the first release sometimes in Q3 2013, stay tuned!
Open Source Messaging & Collaboration: Zarafa
SOS Open Source analyzed Zarafa, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, maintained by the homonymous company headquartered in the Netherlands (Delft) with offices in Germany and Brasil. The Zarafa Summer Camp 2011 was the perfect venue to share our findings around Zarafa (presentation), if you missed our keynote read below to know more this open source messaging and collaboration platform.
Zarafa was released as open source about three years ago, but before that it was already considered a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange, and its code base results mature and stable (information inferred from the public bug-tracking system). A book specialized on Zarafa is on the way, case-studies are available (also from large solution providers) along with a number of forums (even in French and Portoguese). Zarafa popularity compares well with other European competitors, especially in some countries (e.g. , Austria, Germany, the Netherlands). Read more
SOS Open Source News: Redmine, Zarafa and more
Next week at the Red Hat Open Source Day will be a good opportunity to meet in person, I’ll be charing the final round table with Red Hat and Platinum/Gold sponsors.
SOS Open Source team will be at the upcoming Zarafa Summer Camp 2011, to keynote about Zarafa ecosystem on the 30th of June.
We eventually ended a customization of Redmine for a customer, developed after an evaluation of open source project management tools. As soon as possible we’ll share some customizations, included a long awaited plug-in to assign issues to groups.
After our guide about how to choose Linux distributions, we are working on other comparisons, stay tuned!
