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AgileSource, The Innovation of Collaborative Delivery

2010-04-01T14:23:37.638Z

BEIJING – April 1, 2010 – TargetSource, the Collaborative Company, today announced it has new subsidiary -- AgileSource, a collaborative delivery company , who focus on help organizations that require high quality, on-time and within budget open source based application deployments.

"Open source, in other words, is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end, and that end .is collaborative innovation." Matt Asay said in this blog. With years of deep experience Open Source Community involovement and development, AgileSource has the strong experience and expertise in Java, open source, and agile methodology to ensure customer's application will meet their requirements. By working together, we believe that customer's innovation will driven more success.

Before AgileSource operation, the former team achieved good results in 2009, growing revenues and nearly doubling new customers and organizations such as Koolearn, ZTE, ChinaMobile, France Telecom etc.

"Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend" said Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL stressed at the EclipseCon 2010 conference. With the new wave of Open Source movement, AgileSource is already build it's business model based on Open Source , it had been at the forefront of that movement.

Who’s Making Money From Open Source in the Cloud?

2010-04-01T10:17:22.161Z

At this morning’s Bunker Session, the central question of the relationship between cloud computing and open-source software was answered early and often. The one thing everybody agreed upon is that most clouds of any appreciable scale are built on open-source software and, in fact, might not even exist without it. As to whether there’s any money to be made with open source, however, there was enough contention to go around.

The rub, as posited by Citrix’s Simon Crosby, is that everybody making money with open source actually has a proprietary angle. Open source is a great tool for advancing products, branding a company and expanding its reach, but vendors make their money with proprietary solutions. This holds true for companies ranging from Citrix with XenServer to Amazon with EC2. The numbers actually back up this proposition: Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, pointed out that the leading open-source investors aren’t VCs, but large IT companies like IBM, Intel and Google. Investment in open-source projects helps these companies crowdsource R&D — which saves time and money — before rolling out a commercial offering based on the results. This isn’t an indictment of vendors’ use of open source, by the way, it’s just reality –- not to mention smart business.

However, as Om pointed out from the crowd, there is a big difference between helping vendors make money and actually making money yourself. Save for Red Hat, most truly open-source companies don’t last too long before they’re snatched up by proprietary vendors that want to leverage the associated momentum and product capabilities in their own businesses. But the definition of success isn’t universal. SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin countered this argument with the position that open-source companies like JBoss and SpringSource, which did great things and built huge communities, are no less successful because they exited via acquisition rather than IPO.

Despite debate over what constitutes a viable open-source business model, the area from where we can expect to see one emerge is cloud computing. As I discussed recently in a GigaOM Pro column (sub. req’d), open-source products are building momentum in private-cloud settings especially, and the reason might be that they help users achieve the same efficiencies as large IT companies that invest in open-source projects.

Another possible avenue for open source success in the cloud is interoperability. When Yahoo’s Tom Hughes Croucher asked the Bunker crowd what the most likely solution to lack of interoperability among public clouds is, open source won by a landslide over vendor-developed standards. Opscodes’s Jesse Robbins buttressed this opinion by pointing out that many concerns over cloud interoperability and application portability can be addressed in the planning stages and by utilizing automation capabilities from companies likeRightScale. Another possibility is to use an open-source interface like libcloud, which simplifies movement between clouds.

Where the money comes into play is when CIOs demand these types of capabilities before moving to cloud delivery models. As Accenture’s Joe Tobolski noted, they want to leverage the cloud, but they want to know there’s a workable Plan B and Plan C in case the primary cloud provider goes down. Cloud platforms don’t necessarily need to be open source if they’re open enough to work with third-party managements solutions. If an open-source company can build a cross-cloud automation product that lets businesses tweak it to suit their specific needs, that company might find itself in a position like Red Hat did when users were searching for a viable alternative to Windows.

Android: fragmentation is innovation, bit it could kill you

2010-03-30T14:01:37.852Z

By Fabrizio Capobianco

Every time open source is in play, the risk of fragmentation is visible. If the code is out there and every hacker in the world has access to it, what prevents a fork? What prevents the original code to have 50 variations?

Nothing prevents it. It happens. But it happens less often than you might think.

First of all, most of the forks die. If there is a company behind a project, they die faster. Not because the fork is bad. It is just that the volume of development is so significant, the original developers stay with the main branch and the brand is attached to the original code (open source commercial projects protect the brand through trademark, so there is very little a fork can do to claim they are the original).

Forks ultimately die because they do not get enough traction, the developers get depressed, the fork gets stale. It is a vicious negative spiral.

If a few fork survive, the result - in most cases - is innovation. "Fragmentation is innovation", as Sean Moss-Pultzonce said. I know many people out there believe the opposite, but think about it: if a fork includes smart ideas, and the open source license requires the code to be visible to the public, would you not expect the original project to embed them over time? Yes, me too.

Sometimes, the original project gets stale, there is no innovation, developers get bored, and they fork. Therefore, innovating. The developers of the original project wake up, improve their code, absorb some of the changes in the forks, and regain control. The result: a better product. More innovation. Nothing bad, something actually very good.

Now, let's look at Android. Any real forks out there? Yes, one from China Mobile. It might get actually successful, and I am sure the Google people are pissed at it. But it could generate a lot of good ideas, that they can embed in their project (assuming the not-invented-here mentality does not pervade the Google campus ;-) Overall, I do not believe it will be a major problem for Google.

It is China Mobile that has a problem: they need to keep the new OS compatible to the Android main branch. If they don't, all apps that are developed for Android will not work on their phone. The final result in my opinion? They won't make it. It is too difficult. They will create a China-only operating system, used by Chinese people, with apps developed by Chinese developers for the domestic market only. A missed opportunity for developers (although that market is big...). A sign of China refusing globalization and fighting Google and the US as a whole. A losing proposition, but nothing that would kill Android in the rest of the world, actually only hurting Chinese developers trying to export their good stuff.

So, is there a real problem with Android? Yes, but it is internal. The real fragmentation, so far, has been created by Google itself. They have released way too many operating system version, too fast. 1.x is not compatible with 2.x, in most cases. So much that our community client was built on 1.x, but for our commercial product we chose only 2.x. The effort of supporting two different clients was too much (hint: if you have an Android 2.x, check the Android Market for Funambol. It is an amazing client).

Was Google wrong at releasing so fast so often? I believe not. I believe they have been right. At the beginning of the cycle, you need to move fast, catching up with the competition. When the product is mature (they are almost there), you can start to slow down. In a year, nobody will remember Android 1.x or the G1 (a.k.a. the garage door opener).

Now it is time for Android to slow down. The next two Android releases, Froyo and Gingerbread (yep, what were you expecting after Cupcakes, Donuts, and Eclairs?), are going to be way more backward compatible than the initial ones. I am very sure about it. Most likely, they will change very little of the core or SDK, moving their apps on the Market (Maps, Gmail, Talk, Voice, Goggles, Gesture Search and so on) and making sure they work across all versions.

Google can afford external fragmentation (which is innovation), but not internal fragmentation (which is suicide). They know it.

Future of Open Source 2010

2010-03-29T08:22:52.211Z

North Bridge and 24 Open Source Leaders Announce 2010 ‘Future of Open Source’ Annual Survey Results at Computerworld’s OSBC

Market growth reaches tipping point, driven by adoption in government, rapid innovation, and the impact of SaaS and cloud computing strategies

Open Source Business Conference, SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 17, 2010 –– Today at Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), a panel of top experts in the commercial open source industry, including executives from Acquia, Black Duck, North Bridge Venture Partners, Red Hat, and SugarCRM, announced the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual ‘Future of Open Source’ survey. The survey results, collected from over 550 respondents including both vendors and non-vendors, highlight a range of significant issues continuing to impact the open source software landscape. Economic conditions, key market drivers and forecast for the coming year are among the topics taking center stage. The session will also gather real-time feedback from attendees via live text votes throughout the panel.

“This year we opened up our survey to an even broader range of industry collaborators and a record number of participants including both vendors and non-vendors, and it’s clear that open source innovation is driving opportunities across all levels of the ecosystem,” said Michael Skok, General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. “Vendors are taking advantage of it and end-users are reaping the benefits. It’s a win-win and both industry players and open source communities are thriving as a result.”

Following are some of the key findings from the survey:

The survey found that economic and competitive factors continue to drive open source adoption.

Approximately 95% of respondents said a turbulent economy is “good” for OSS
As in prior years, respondents indicated that lower total cost of ownership and freedom from vendor lock-in are key drivers. In addition, this year the rapid pace of innovation is highlighted among the top three reasons OSS is attractive to businesses.

“We believe these factors are important to organizations who seek a competitive advantage. Communities are uniquely able to adapt the source openly and rapidly to meet changing needs,” said Skok.

"The open source development model provides an accelerator of innovation and distribution, disrupting the old proprietary business models,” said Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and CTO and co-founder of Acquia.

The survey also revealed that government/public sector validation is the leading “tipping point” driving adoption of open source software this year.

“For Drupal, the platform’s use for Whitehouse.gov has raised the level of awareness not only within government agencies around the world, but among private organizations as well,” continued Buytaert. “With the support of open source companies, we’re sure to see OSS continue its march into both the enterprise and public sectors."

The survey also revealed barriers to open source adoption.

Respondents listed unfamiliarity with open source solutions, lack of internal technical skills, and lack of formal commercial vendor support as the top three barriers to the selection of open source software.
As a result the survey also revealed that the business strategies predicted to create the most value for open source vendors include subscription based technical support and professional services and consulting.

"Much of the uncertainty that limited wide-scale open source adoption has evaporated as IT shops, constrained by tight budgets, are using more OSS to improve the efficiency and flexibility of the development process and realizing tremendous cost and time savings, said Tim Yeaton, President and CEO, Black Duck Software. Lingering concerns about OSS use in many Enterprise IT shops remain, but that's natural and is diminishing rapidly as familiarity and the tools for managing OSS improve."

Overall the survey underscored the continued momentum of open source.

55% of respondents believe that more than half of their purchases will be open source in the next 5 years.
"Open source has moved into mainstream as people’s understanding and skills around it have matured. The question is no longer about proprietary vs. open source; it is how can open source be used across all tiers of the software stack.” Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM

The reduction of venture funding in open source in 2009 in publicly disclosed funding deals down 37% to $375, as cited by The 451 Group, also highlighted the impact new platforms have on open source vendors. The result is a reevaluation of business models, with vendors seeking new market strategies.

Over 75% of respondents indicated that either software-as-a-service and/or cloud computing will have the greatest impact on open source vendors

“As validated by survey respondents, cloud computing is one of the most significant advancements in IT today,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO, Red Hat. “We believe that open source is a natural foundation for the cloud and is a great enabler of the expanded flexibility, scalability and cost savings IT organizations are expecting by moving to the cloud.”

The survey also highlighted WCM/CMS/social software as the sectors expected to be most susceptible to disruption by open source software in the next five years, moving ahead of traditional areas such as operating systems and databases.

Overall the survey found that from the community to customers to vendors, market growth is expected at all levels.

“In our view it’s a winning situation all around,” said Skok. “Customers want vendors to provide better visibility into new open source projects along with commercial support and services. That in turn is beneficial to the development communities behind those projects as they see greater adoption.”

Skok continued, “While we are as discerning as ever of our investments, those vendors that evolve to take advantage of shifts like cloud computing and look to provide leverage in their business model with things like electronic services can expect to attract funding from us. As proof of that we have already reinvested in Acquia’s continued rapid growth and closed three new deals in open source in 2009, including Akiban Technologies, Northscale and REvolution Computing.”

The 2010 Future of Open Source survey was developed collaboratively by North Bridge with input from 24 collaborators including Akiban Technologies, Olliance Group, Jaspersoft, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sand Hill.com, and the 451 Group, many of whom have contributed their views and vision to the Future of Open Source Forum. To see the full survey results visit: tinyurl.com/FOOSSurvey2010 and to view the Forum visit http://futureofopensource.drupalgardens.com/welcome-future-open-source-forum.

Visualizing Open Source Business Models

2010-03-23T16:12:29.825Z

22 March 2010 By Stephen Walli

Matt Aslett gave a great talk about the evolution of open source business strategies last week at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. In it, he presented a model to allow one to visualize businesses that use open source in their solutions, and what it means in terms of relationships with customers and the community.

The community relationships are driven by the lower triangle:

The customer relationships are driven by the upper triangle:

Matt goes on to apply the model across a collection of companies and business models, visually demonstrating how different companies have made different choices and evolved those choices, as well as playing out a number of scenarios. It's an excellent model.

Matt and I have debated in the past as to whether or not there is such a thing as an open source business model. I've argued there's no such business model, but discuss it as a set of tools that are applied to the business. Regardless of one's opinions however, Matt has provided an excellent visual model for the discussion and presentation of the ideas. It works in much the same way as the Business Model Design template in visually capturing the information to ensure a completeness of discussion and an understanding of how the parts relate. I'm looking forward to the continuing evolution of the model over the coming year as he prepares the next major open source business report from the 451 Group, and would encourage you to give the entire presentation a read.

Abiquo announces formal release of abiCloud 1.0.0

2010-02-25T02:40:24.683Z

Barcelona, Spain – February 23rd, 2010 Abiquo announced today that abiCloud 1.0.0 has been formally released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 3.

AbiCloud is a unique open-source Cloud computing platform that manages all aspects of Cloud IT infrastructure. AbiCloud users can manage and create public and private Clouds, provision IT resources, and automatically scale applications on-demand – all through a simple and easy to use graphical user interface. AbiCloud is vendor neutral, providing concurrent support of all major hypervisors, as well industry standards such as the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
First pre-released in April 2009, abiCloud has undergone extensive testing by the open-source community with over 15,000 downloads and eight pre-release iterations prior to its official release today. In addition, the product has been extensively tested by many commercial organizations, including a number of Global 500 enterprises.
“We are delighted to have reached this important milestone in Abiquo’s history”, said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO, “the formal release of the abiCloud product is the culmination of many man-years of effort by our own team, the open-source community, and by commercial organizations who see the need and potential for a truly comprehensive Cloud Management solution”.
While pre-release versions were issued under a combination of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and Common Public Attribution License (CAPL), abiCloud 1.0.0 is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Version 3.
“The shift to LGPL gives the community increased flexibility”, said Diego Mariño co-founder and VP Community Solutions at Abiquo, “the LGPL license keeps the Cloud open and keeps the organizations that promote it in the black. Proprietary software can use abiCloud as a component without losing the proprietary nature of that software. Organizations can also customize abiCloud to suit their internal needs without having to share those changes publicly.” A
biCloud 1.0.0 is available for immediate download via our Web site at www.abicloud.org.

About Abiquo
Abiquo is a leading developer of Cloud Management solutions based in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 2006, Abiquo envisions a future where private and public Clouds are fully interoperable and vendor neutral. The company embraces an open-source model where both community users and commercial organizations can fully benefit from the Cloud revolution.
For more information, visit the company’s website at www.abiquo.com.
Abiquo is the trading name of Soluciones Grid S.L. registered in Barcelona, Spain.

OpenSourceCamp 2009 Beijing , Where Communities Meetup

2009-12-20T16:25:56.846Z

15, Dec 2009 Beijing, OpenSourceCamp, the largest unconference open source in China just finished 2 weeks ago,there were more than 100 people join the 2 days events, including Apache Asia Road Show program, people who join the event discuss lots of interested ideas , including:

Intalio|Works: the engine for Enterprise Open Source

IBM Open Principles and Practices Dr Tian Zhong | IBM

Building a Winning Strategy for an Open Source Company Mikko Puhakka | MYSQL Investor

Liberate vector processing capability to runtime software system Li Xiao Feng | Intel

What's Open SourceCamp?

Open Source Camp is ad-hoc and unconference event that brings together open source developer, Geek , entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists, and technology influencer, tech media for an intense user-created conference about open source, emerging technology topics. It's organized by the community, for the community. The event combines,sharing,learning,networking, and fun. Participants, who are experts and innovators in their fields, are also the presenters. The goal is to boost open source community and innovation around the world.

This year is special because we bring together Apache Barcamp and Eclipse DemoCamp at the same time and same place, it's real communites collaboration and meetup.

About Apache Barcamp: Barcamp Apache is a free dynamics get-together open to the public. Like other unconferences, the schedule will be determined by the participants.

About Eclipse DemoCamp : The format of a DemoCamp is pretty informal. The idea is for a group of Eclipse enthusiasts to meet up and demo what they are doing with Eclipse. The demos can be of research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or whatever you think might be of interest to the attendees. The only stipulation is that it must be Eclipse related.

Fore more live vedio: http://v.ku6.com/playlist/index_3718915.html

Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/opensourcecamp

We are looking forward to see you next year in Beijing, Shanghai, GuangZhou

TargetSource Join MindTrek in Tampere, Finland

2009-12-20T16:25:12.718Z

25, Sep, 2009, Finland MindTrek is the leading Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0. At MindTrek you will see the newest trends, innovations, revolutionary business phenomena and hear insights from the most high-spirited visionaries.

Last year the conference gathered together over 800 people from 32 countries, with around 150 international visitors.
The conference brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields, ranging from sociology and economy, to technology.

In recent years there have been speakers such as Marc Davis (Yahoo!), Chris DiBona (Google), Anssi Vanjoki (Nokia), Bob Sutor (IBM), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent), Paula le Dieu (BBC, Creative Archive), Florence Nibart-Devouard (Wikimedia Foundation), Teemu Kurppa (Jaiku), Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation), Monty Widenius (MySQL), Rick Falkvinge (The Pirate Party), etc.

TargetSource's Founder , Mr Peter Cheng will join MindTrek 2009 which will be held in Tampere, Finland from Sep 30th – Oct 2nd. He will talking about new ideas about "connecting communites , from China to World " and " Communtiy Driven Business" at the conferece.

More information about MindTrek, pls visit www.mindtrek.org , we are looking forward to see you in Tampere, Finland.

Will all OpenSource company be acquired

2009-12-20T16:23:57.324Z

Paula Rooney From ZDNET, 12, Aug, 2009

Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants.

Let’s consider the growing list: IBM’s purchase of Gluecode, Novell’s purchase of SUSE, Citrix’s XenSource deal, Nokia’s Trolltech buy, Sun’s purchase of MySQL, Oracle’s purchase of Sun (and hence MySQL and OpenOffice) and now VMware’s planned $420 million acquisition of SpringSource.

Is this what the founding open source developers envisioned?

Doubt it, but fewer open source backers are opposed to such mergers as the use of open source software expands in the corporate sector and mixed hybrid software stacks are growing up in the data center.

Open source is not toppling the ranks of proprietary software giants (yet) but the quiet revolution is taking place: the model of free and open software development has reduced vendor lock-in and is delivering enormous benefits to developers and customers, observers maintain. The acquisiton trend simply reflects this notion: industry titans can’t beat it so they’re joining open source, observers also maintain.

“I expect VMware will continue to invest and grow the platform and that bodes well for open source. I hope they realize that part of the value is the large number of people building on the platform for free,” said Larry Augustin, president and CEO of SugarCRM, a large open source CRM vendor. “VMware doesn’t have a long history in open source but this is a big bold step for them and I’m keeping my fingers crossed.”

“They did some contributions to the kernel and and made a free version of the hypervisor available but not in open source. This is their first big open source step and shows the value of these open source companies and platforms. ”

Some open source players question Oracle’s acquisiton of Sun but think the VMware-SpringSource marriage is a healthy one.

Open source is “a great production and distribution model, the latter being more important, that creates some truly enterprise-class products that customers need. For software developers this is especially true, since they want unfettered access to products to try them and understand how they work without needing to engage in a lot of commercial activity, which they find to be a distasteful time sink,” said Jeff Hartley, VP of Products and Marketing (correction) of Terracotta, which develops open source clustering software for Java and partners with both VMware and SpringSource.

“With our software, you can look at the code if you really want to know how it works, and you can suggest improvements or become a committer and help make future products. This point about distribution is perhaps just one reason why VMware and SpringSource make sense together, with Spring as an open source provider,” Hartley said. “As VMware builds its portfolio of products to make enterprise software easier to build and manage, it needs to connect up the stack with developers. SpringSource has certainly done a good job of that and is a big help in high regard in the developer community and have fantastic adoption.”

Once upon a time, corporate behemoths like Microsoft, Sun and VMware were considered the greedy proprietary vendors that open source startups would one day replace. Yes?

But that’s not panning out. Open source has gained credibility but the industry has yet to spawn another billion-dollar baby. So what shifted?

A realization that the open source business model may not be working as well as the open source development model? Or another aspect of open source’s bottom up success?

OpenBravo’s CTO recently said such deals are inevitable as proprietary giants infuse needed revenue into aspiring open source companies whose download count vastly exceeds their revenue.

Some think such marriages are ideal because they generate vendors with a healthy mix of proprietary and open source software. This prevents lockin while ensuring commercial provders enjoy a profit.

But will all successful open source companies end up in the clutches of proprietary software titans?

Have IBM, Novell, Sun, Citrix, Oracle and VMware thrown in the towel and see open source as the inevitable future? Or are they simply gobbling up the competition to protect their revenue streams for as long as possible, or making strategic buys to counter their rivals’ open source acquisitions?

I question this each time one of these deals are announced. Call me a cynic. But one has to wonder about the viability of the open source business model if all of the top open source dogs are acquired by traditional software vendors.

Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for almost two decades. See her full profile and disclosureof her industry affiliations.

Replication for Oracle

2009-12-20T16:21:31.628Z

San Jose, CA – October 14, 2008 – Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source solutions for database replication and scale-out, today announced that it is accepting applications for a closed beta version for advanced replication for Oracle^® with its Tungsten Replicator. Continuent Tungsten^™ is an open source stack consisting of tightly integrated projects that provide database scale-out using commodity hardware. It provides database replication, group communications wrappers, performance testing tools and shared infrastructure required to build workable scale-out solutions. Tungsten also includes sophisticated cluster management based on group communications. Continuent’s Tungsten stack works with any database implementation, and is available in source and binary forms.

The Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is designed to

Replicate between Oracle database instances (Express, SE1, SE and EE): maximize database uptime and throughput by replicating the master database to multiple slaves, distributing reads to slaves, and promoting slaves automatically during planned maintenance or when the master fails.
Provide heterogeneous replication: supply edge application data from core Oracle OLTP server by heterogeneous replication from an Oracle instance to and from MySQL^® instances and to PostgreSQL, with high fidelity and rapid transfer rates.
Implement reliable, zero-downtime Oracle database migration and upgrade by applying upgrades to a replica instance and then promoting the upgraded copy to be a master. In addition to minimizing downtime, this approach provides a back-out in the event of migration problems.

“Continuent’s replication for Oracle is an economical and effective for a wide range of customer problems. We encourage interested Oracle customers to contact us and apply to test it,” says Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent.

A limited beta release of Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is available by contacting, if you are intererted in Tungsten and based in China , please contact to salestargetsorce.com.cn. Production versions will be available in Q1 2009.

About Continuent
Continuent, the world's leading provider of Continuous Data Availability (CDA) solutions, offers continuous high availability and incremental performance scaling using commodity hardware and databases. We provide continuous uptime so you can deliver business critical database applications with high data availability and accessibility. We also offer support, training and consulting services to our customers worldwide.

Continuent’s Tungsten stack provides a unique collection of technologies for database scale-out. The stack itself is open source. Tungsten is operating system independent and supports both commercial and open source databases including Oracle^®, MySQL^®, PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB^™. For more information about Continuent and our products, visitwww.continuent.com.

About TargetSource

The Company TargetSource™ is a open source software services and consulting firm. TargetSource distributes, manages, integrates and supports enterprise-ready open source software and applications across the enterprise. TargetSource services are delivered to end customers by a global collaboration network with partners.More information , visitwww.targetsource.cn

OSS Market Accelerated by Eco

2009-12-20T16:22:38.288Z

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent IDC study reveals that worldwide revenue from open source software (OSS) will grow at a 22.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $8.1 billion by 2013. This forecast is considerably higher than 2008 for three reasons: (1) the bottom-up list used to calculate the revenue has expanded through an exhaustive effort to include more projects in this forecast; (2) open source software has had a much higher level of acceptance over the past 12 months than previously expected, and; (3) the economy accelerated the uptake and use of open source software in the closing months of 2008.

"The open source software market has seen a strong boost from the current economic crisis," said Michael Fauscette, group vice president, Software Business Solutions. "OSS is increasingly a part of the enterprise software strategy of leading businesses and is seeing mainstream adoption at a strong pace. As the overall software industry continues to consolidate, it will be key for OSS vendors to reach scale if they plan to continue as a standalone business."

Additional key findings include:

Large software vendors like IBM, Sun, Dell, HP, and Oracle are making significant amounts of indirect revenue from their activities with and support of OSS. This has greatly aided mainstream adoption and acceptance of OSS.
Hybrid business models seem to be increasing. It is likely that this will end up as the most prevalent business model, with on-premise vendors adding SaaS, SaaS vendors offering on premise, OSS vendors selling variants, and closed source vendors offering more OSS.
The opportunity to leverage OSS in ways that increase competitive advantage, such as a part of BPO offerings or as a part of a software appliance, is on the rise and should help increase adoption and growth for OSS vendors.

This IDC study, Worldwide Open Source Software 2009–2013 Forecast (IDC #219260) provides a new forecast for the open source software market as a bottom-up sizing of the OSS market in 2008 and a 2009–2013 forecast. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide marke

Open Community, Open Strategy

2009-12-20T16:20:47.060Z

Beijing, China.—June 18, 2008 Today from the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, organised by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the Chinese software industry associations create software Branch, solar system (China) Co., Ltd. in association with the "build Eco-system software together help open platform "forum held in Beijing. Huihoo the open source community under the co-founder of Peter Cheng spoke Record:

Huihoo the open source community co-founder of Peter Cheng: Today I talk about this part of a simple, I have in the past been involved in some of the open source community understand how to truly help companies adopt open-source technologies and products.

I start from 2001 to the open source community Huihoo, 2004 came to Beijing, in various forums, open source technology to do the research and exchanges, and we will continue to do some inter-community interaction activities Open Source Camp. Today, I still talk about how the focus on helping enterprises to adopt open-source kind of technology.

Now the plan inside, you will see a lot of open source software participants, individuals, communities and enterprises in this inside the participation of everyone through constant communication and to form a complete ecosystem, we will see the inside of various All sorts of different roles. At the same time there are many commercial companies gradually some of their original strategy into the strategy of raising revenue, more revenue is the commitment to the user to produce better software.

I often ask customers, particularly in China, more revenue for the understanding of the use of free, rather than genuine boost to use. In China's concern on the market in the end, what does » I visited many companies and customers, when they buy a software, the first is to stabilize the operation, if the instability may lead to bad management accountable. The second and stable operation of the future must be better performance, so you get a better return. The third is to see whether there is a corresponding skills with the talent, and these people need training in the time-consuming. The last to care about the issue of cost, in the end the software how much money be spent on investment, so the final price is a problem. When we used to make open-source inside the enterprise, we often referred to some problems, an open source project and the final forming of the gap between the products, bought today is not tomorrow can be used » Open-source software is not also have to assess the way » Have your own company with open-source software and technical talents to better use the software. Your investment in the open-source software, how to calculate your return on investment, and so on, and you will care about the business support services, these are all you need to consider the issue.

The real inside large enterprises, we feel that if we use good open-source software, the need to develop a strategy, including Bank of America to set up a special department to do the overall assessment, we participate in the open-source and the application of open source to provide services for customers , Summed up some of our experience, a real business, if you should be an open-source software, whether from the community to an open-source or from a certain product makers get put into use, have to go through four A process. First, the product itself to be evaluated. Second, depends on whether the company's technical staff have the appropriate skills. Third, the legal departments of the software the legal risk assessments. Finally, as a high-level strategy departments, needs assessment so I bought a software, the input of financial and material resources, how long will the recovery proceeds, after the passage of the four procedures, to enter a business within the enterprise-class open-source software warehouse Lane.

For more details, please visit: http://www.slideshare.net/targetsource/open-community-open-strategy

Open Source, Value Return 2008

2009-12-20T16:19:32.654Z

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

OpenSourceCamp is delighted to invite you to attend the event 'OpenSource , Value Return' taking place on Oct.25th in Beijing.

The numerous users have adopted very quickly sharing knowledge and transferring information on the internet. People also is building and maintaining of their relationships with the network, But what's behind all of those innovation? Open Source, the greatest process for gathering people to participate and share technology and culture on the internet. Now, Lots of enterprise is already building their infrastructure base on open source software such as Linux, java, php, python, ruby, mysql and so forth.

What's Open Source Camp?

OpenSourceCamp is unconference event that brings together open source developer, Geek , entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists, and technology influencer, Tech Media for an intense user-created conference about open source, emerging technology topics. The event combines sharing , learning, networking, and fun. Participants, who are experts and innovators in their fields, are also the presenters. The goal is to boost tech community and innovation not only in China but also around the world.

When is it?

The evening of Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 and 13:00 -- 19:00.

How To Registration?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pzB8e0ZveFJtXNbdzDDs8Hw

Where will it take place and How to get there?

In Beijing.

English Study Bar beside the WenJing Hotel, LanqiYing Bus Station, The west of Wudaokou Railway station.

Bus and Railway:

1. First No 13. Railway, Wudaokou Station,then go west and take Bus 375,307,331,690,731,656,743
to LanQiYing Station, on the right side of the road, Study Bar.

2. Directly Take Bus or Taxi to LanQiYing Station , on the right side of the road, Study Bar.
Map: http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v363/42/73/584713498/n584713498_973464_3396.jpg

Any questions, Contact to

Peter Cheng
Mobile: 138-1138-1302
Email: opensourcecampgmail.com

Who will be there?

We're expecting about 200 people who work in fields such as internet, opensource computer security, mobile communication, Game, IT Media, Java Community,Python Community, Unix Commmunity , PHP Community, Linux and other emerging technologies.

We also invitate an influential group of people who are knowledgeable about the technology world to join us. These people includes:

Mikko Puhakk Open Source Research & MYSQL Investor
Cedric Thomas CEO of OW2 Consortium
Gong Min Linx Technology Ltd CEO, The Pioneer of China Free Software
Bill Xu Founder of ZEUUX Community
Jason Costa Google
ZhangWenSong Founder of LVS TelTel Chief Scientist
Bjrn Stabell, Exoweb CEO
Chen Xu Intel Open Source Center Strategy Manager

Event Services

Event Facility & Food
We will supply free Projector, WIFI, Soft Drink & Cookie
Online Communication & Media
OSCamp Twitter: http://twitter.com/oscamp

Session Schedule

13:30-14:00 Registation
14:00-14:30 Welcome Introducation
14:30-15:00:Post the idesa on The Topic Wall , Confirm Topic Schedule
15:00-15:30 3 Keynote Session
15:30-15:40 Session Break
15:40-16:20 Session 1 , Room0, Room2, Room3, Startup Room
16:20-16:25 Session Break, Find new topics on the wall
16:25 -17:05 Session 2 , Room0, Room2, Room3, Startup Room
17:05-17:10 Session Break, Find new topics on the wall
17:10-17:50 Session 3 , Room0, Room2, Room3, Startup Room
17:50- 17:55 Session Break, Find new topics on the wall
17:55- 18:35 Session 4 , Room0, Room2, Room3, Startup Room
17:55- 19:00 Game & Free Gift (Room 0 )

Registration Fee: Free (everyone will obtain a tshirt for free, also have a chance to win gifts)

Event Co-Organizer
Beijing Open Party http://www.beijing-open-party.org

Sponsors
Google, TargetSource, Intel, Redhat, OW2, Thoughtworks

Community Partners**
Huihoo.org, ZEUUX, BeijingOpenParty, JActionGroup, Martix, BLUG, SpringSide, LinuxPK, XOOPS, MyTshirt, OpenSourceForce, LVS

Stephen Walli Join TargetSource Board of Advisor Team

2009-12-20T16:18:46.209Z

Beijing, China.—May 8, 2008 Today, TargetSource is very glad to announce that Stephen Walli , an open source strategist join the advisory board of TargetSource.

Stephen is an consultant of open source strategy . He was vice president of open source development strategy at Optaros, Inc. He worked for Microsoft for 5 years after the acquisition of Softway Systems, Inc, the makers of Interix which lives on in the Services for UNIX product. While at Microsoft, he continued to work on Interix, then joined the Rotor team, and finally worked as part of the business development team exploring how Microsoft could best develop open source communities.

We believe that Stephen will bring more international business and community experience on open source to TargetSource, help to make TargetSource successful on the road of Open Source.

Interview with Peter Cheng, CEO of TargetSource

2009-12-18T16:41:12.404Z

- Mikko Puhakka

*Disclosure: I am an advisor to TargetSource see: TargetSource Official Launch

1. How did you get started?

After 7 years effort on open source community and 3 years business practice on open source services in China, we think it is a right time for us to start up TargetSource. More and more companies always ask us to help them to solve problems when they use open source, sometime if you are just a individual, it is not a long term strategy for company to get support on open source software. That’s why we started TargetSouce, an open source service company which delivers to end customers by a global collaboration network with partners base on the open source software.

2. What is your product?

TargetSource strategy is not building a single open source component or product such as JBoss, hibernate, Spring or so. From our point view, our customer requirement is a solution, which can help them solve their technology problem and optimize their business. So, TargetSource has developed the Enterprise-Ready Open Source™ Platform to enable these powerful new open source-based solutions. For each solution, TargetSource selects the right components, and then integrates, builds, tests and packages them to create stacks that are optimized for that solution.

3. Key milestones?

In the next coming 5 years , there will be three key milestones for TargetSource

1) 2008, startup year for core team building, spread enterprise-ready open source strategy to China, and enable more business and technology partner to use enterprise-ready open source software. At the same time , establish the partnership with open source companies such as Redhat, SUN Microsystem, SpringSource, MuleSource, IONA and so forth. Begin to build a good open source ecosystem in China.

2) 2011, with 3 years growth, TargetSource will growth fast and establish his capacity and position on open source services market in China, It will enter into a faster growth period.

3) 2013, TargetSource will become the NO.1 open source service company in China, whenever an company wants to use open source software , he should call TargetSource for help.

4. Why did you decide on the open source model?

Open source is already beyond the source code, it’s about process, the way on how to build good software; it’s about community, the way to let more people to share their ideas together; it’s about methodlogy, the way on how we think about software. Out vision is to build good software and let more enterprise to use it with the right way without lock into commercial software,give people the freedom to use software. Open Source is the right choice to make all this happen.

5. How do you see TargetSource in 5 years?

As I have metioned in the key milestones , TargetSource will growth fast in the next coming 5 years, we will provide more opportunity for smarter people who work on open source , we will hire those people from the community also contribute on open source in the community. TargetSource will be a community driven company, the one important think for us to do is to enable more open source community in China, right now , it’s important to breed community soil in China, then you will gain in the next coming 5 years. TargetSource will become an very important company of China software industry also be an important role in the open source world.

6. Some comments on Open Source and China

After running more than 7 years open source community in China, there are really so many things I can talk about open source in China, but the first thing I want to say that open source in China is just at the early age, there is still need to learn more about the open source community management methodology, how to adopt open source software into your software, how to share and exchange ideas between different kinds of community. The second is about education, if we want to make open source success in China also around the world, we need to let more student to learn and participate the open source, if you know it, maybe you will use, then you will participate.That’s why I started the Open Source University program to give lectures around 100 universities in China.

Language is culture , If you want to do business well in China, the first thing is to learn Chinese, find the best local people with international experience and ability to collaboration with you. Finally, I think Open Source will be the best way to make China software industry become stronger.

TargetSource join Open Source big family

2009-12-20T16:09:36.135Z

Beijing, China.—April 10, 2008, TargetSource-an open-source software services and consulting company in Beijing announced the establishment of formal open-source community as a new member.

As a large number of new software system through the help of software vendors, built on open source-based system architecture, these applications, will bring both enterprise-class features, but also greatly reduces the complexity of enterprise IT and cost . It is an open-source and gathered crowds of open source software services and consulting companies, through the distribution, management, integration and support of open source software and application software through a global network of collaboration, and cooperation partners will deliver quality service to End-users.

TargetSource through the development of the Enterprise-Ready Open Source ™ platform for these new powerful open source-based solutions for enterprise applications provider of innovative vitality. Enterprise-Ready Open Source ™, is a set of components and services that can help simplify and automate labor-intensive and complex task, and ensure that the solution is easy to deploy and easy to use, and to enterprise-class quality and performance. These solutions can increase revenue through the gathered crowds of professional support services, access to critical security patches, updates, to ensure that users need when they can receive timely. For each solution, assembling people to choose the right open-source components, and then integrate, build, test and packaging them, finally delivered an optimized solution.

At the same time, assembling people to raise revenue also includes a very strong advisory team, as a global open-source software and a leader in risk investment, will TargetSource company's long-term development to provide support and assistance. TargetSource these expert consultants will bring more business guidance and the open source community's development strategy are:

Mikko Puhakka: Mikko is founder of Holtron Ventures First investor in MySQL (2001), exited to SUN for USD 1 billion. in 2008 Open Source researcher at Helsinki University of Technology since 2004 Advisor to COSS, Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions since 2005 Well known thought leader in Open Source, having given speeches and organizing network events in China, Europe, Africa and USA Advisor of Open Source companies in Europe, USA and China.

Peter Kronowitt: Peter is a Software Strategist in Intel's Open Source Technology Center and is responsible for developing and managing the worldwide program for Linux operating system vendors. Peter has 20 years in the high-tech sector, with IBM, Xircom and more than twelve years with Intel. He has led global teams for market and platform roadmap development in the worldwide channel and directed software ecosystem relationships for new Intel platform introductions. Peter has held positions as board observer at JBoss as part of an Intel Capital equity investment, was a founding and Steering Committee member of the Open Business Readiness Rating, and Steering Committee Vice Chair for the Open Source Development Lab Desktop Linux Working Group.

Gong Min: Dr. Gong graduated from Peking University Department of Radio, assigned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has worked to the United States 2002, and later to Helsinki, Finland, Hong Kong Polytechnic University of painstaking research It is in Finland, Gong Min involved in the LINUX operating system development and research. 2000 Gong Min backto Beijing to start returning Ningsi Technology Limited.

Zhang Wen Song: Dr. ZhangWenSong graduated from National University of Defense Technology, Ph.D., the incumbent TelTel chief scientist. Dr.Zhang, founded in May 1998 LVS, and applied to many systems on the Internet, including SourceForge.net, abc.com. LVS Linux kernel as an important item for the high availability of network structures cluster system important features and performance. Dr.Zhang as China's open-source Software leader, encouraging more young people to participate in open-source software development and promotion of the past.

Zhang Shu Guang: Zhang Shuguang who have more than 10 years experiences in international law business is a partner of Beijing Longan law firm, he was promulgated the Law Society of the first batch of possessing both the Bar, the English proficiency of foreign-related legal counsel. Zhang Shuguang was graduated from Beijing Language Institute Bachelor of English and American Literature in 1994. And also received a master's degree in International Economic Law at China University of Political Science and in 1997.

TargetSource Official Launch

2009-12-18T16:39:48.359Z

Beijing, China.—April 10, 2008 TargetSouce an open source software services and consulting firm, today is official launched at Beijing.

The Company TargetSource™ distributes, manages, integrates and supports enterprise-ready open source software and applications across the enterprise. TargetSource services are delivered to end customers by a global collaboration network with partners.

Enterprise-Ready Open Source™ Solutions and Services

A new breed of software applications is being developed thought open source-based architecture by software vendors. These applications bring enterprise-class functionality at a much lower level of complexity and cost. TargetSource works with the best-in-class application projects and parnters to bring these solutions to market on a common platform.

TargetSource has developed the Enterprise-Ready Open Source™ Platform to enable these powerful new open source-based solutions. For each solution, TargetSource selects the right components, and then integrates, builds, tests and packages them to create stacks that are optimized for that solution.

TargetSource Board of Advisor

Today TargetSource also announced the formation of its advisory board to support its growth and evolution.

The members of the advisory board bring together business and open source community leadership, and include:

Mikko Puhakka: Mikko is founder of Holtron Ventures First investor in MySQL (2001), exited to SUN for USD 1 billion. in 2008 Open Source researcher at Helsinki University of Technology since 2004 Advisor to COSS, Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions since 2005 Well known thought leader in Open Source, having given speeches and organizing network events in China, Europe, Africa and USA Advisor of Open Source companies in Europe, USA and China.

Peter Kronowitt: Peter is a Software Strategist in Intel's Open Source Technology Center and is responsible for developing and managing the worldwide program for Linux operating system vendors. Peter has 20 years in the high-tech sector, with IBM, Xircom and more than twelve years with Intel. He has led global teams for market and platform roadmap development in the worldwide channel and directed software ecosystem relationships for new Intel platform introductions. Peter has held positions as board observer at JBoss as part of an Intel Capital equity investment, was a founding and Steering Committee member of the Open Business Readiness Rating, and Steering Committee Vice Chair for the Open Source Development Lab Desktop Linux Working Group.

Gong Min: Dr. Gong graduated from Peking University Department of Radio, assigned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has worked to the United States 2002, and later to Helsinki, Finland, Hong Kong Polytechnic University of painstaking research It is in Finland, Gong Min involved in the LINUX operating system development and research. 2000 Gong Min backto Beijing to start returning Ningsi Technology Limited.

Zhang Wen Song: Dr. ZhangWenSong graduated from National University of Defense Technology, Ph.D., the incumbent TelTel chief scientist. Dr.Zhang, founded in May 1998 LVS, and applied to many systems on the Internet, including SourceForge.net, abc.com. LVS Linux kernel as an important item for the high availability of network structures cluster system important features and performance. Dr.Zhang as China's open-source Software leader, encouraging more young people to participate in open-source software development and promotion of the past.

Zhang Shu Guang: Zhang Shuguang who have more than 10 years experiences in international law business is a partner of Beijing Longan law firm, he was promulgated the Law Society of the first batch of possessing both the Bar, the English proficiency of foreign-related legal counsel. Zhang Shuguang was graduated from Beijing Language Institute Bachelor of English and American Literature in 1994. And also received a master's degree in International Economic Law at China University of Political Science and in 1997.

About TargetSource

TargetSource is an open source software services and consulting firm that distributes, manages, integrates and supports open source software and applications across the enterprise. TargetSource services are delivered to end customers by a global collaboration network with partners. For more information, please visit www.targetsource.cn