TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A. What Are the Long-Term Effects of Open Source? JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Carlo Daffara KW - code quality KW - collaboration KW - growth KW - open source KW - open standards PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/514 IS - 1 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the European Working Group on Libre Software, chairs several other working groups, including the Open Source Middleware Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and the Internet Society Working Group on Public Software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to UNESCO on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of business models for open source software. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Open Source License Selection in Relation to Business Models JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Carlo Daffara AB - This article provides recent research results from the European Union's FLOSSMetrics project. The results focus on the business and practical aspects of the adoption of open source within software products or as a basis of service offerings. Research into free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) is usually conducted with a software engineering focus or with an emphasis on F/LOSS as a spontaneous or directed collaboration effort. The FLOSSMetrics project expanded that research with an investigation on how licenses, business models, and project choices affect development and productization. This article provides a summary of common licensing issues and business models choices in F/LOSS, and it provides a list of recommendations for selecting a license for a software project to suit both business objectives and licensing constraints. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/416 IS - February 2011 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the European Working Group on Libre Software, chairs several other working groups, including the Open Source Middleware Group of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and the Internet Society Working Group on Public Software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to UNESCO on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of business models for open source software. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Economic Free Software Perspectives JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Carlo Daffara AB - "How do you make money with free software?" was a very common question just a few years ago. Today, that question has evolved into "What are successful business strategies that can be implemented on top of free software?" To properly answer this question, it is important to distinguish between the legal, procedural and business model aspects of free/libre and open source software, and how those aspects interact. For example, the licensing aspect influences the development strategy, the kind of development community that can be created around a project, and the potential business models that can provide a monetization strategy for a company that is interested in adopting an open source project as part of the internal company strategy. This article provides the most recent results from the FLOSSMETRICS project and its recent survey of the business model of more than 200 open source companies. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/277 IS - August 2009 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the European Working group on libre software, chairs several other working groups like the open source middleware group of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing and the Internet Society working group on public software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to Unesco on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of OSS-based business models. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The OpenTTT Approach JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Carlo Daffara AB - There is no shortage of data and results that demonstrate that open source software, when adopted with appropriate best practices, can significantly lower costs and provide quality IT (information technology) solutions, especially for small and medium enterprises. For example, the Consortium for Open Source Software in Public Administration project demonstrated that by using best practices for OSS procurement, not only was software acquisition cheaper, but the evaluation of tangible and intangible costs over 5 years demonstrated a cost reduction ranging from 20% to 60%. The EU study on the impact of OSS indicates that OSS can reduce software research and development costs by 36%, while the INES project found that companies adopting OSS increased profits and reduced time to market and development costs in 80% of the trials. If OSS is so advantageous, why is so little use of it perceived in the marketplace, especially among SMEs? We present the preliminary results of an European project called OpenTTT to improve the adoption rate and study the effectiveness of best practices in OSS adoption within small and medium enterprises. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/128 IS - March 2008 U1 - Conecta Carlo Daffara is head of research at Conecta, an open source consulting company. He is the Italian member of the EuropeanWorking group on libre software, chairs several other working groups like the open source middleware group of the IEEE technical committee on scalable computing and the Internet Society working group on public software, and contributed to the article presented by ISOC to Unesco on global trends for universal access to information resources. His current research activity is centered on the sustainability of OSS-based business models. ER -