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Building a Successful Software Business, 1st Edition By Dave Radin This handbook is for the new software entrepreneur and the old hand alike. If you're thinking of starting a company around a program you've written--and there's no better time than the present--this book will guide you toward success. If you're an ol... Publish Date: April 1994
By Q. Ethan McCallum, Stephen Weston It’s tough to argue with R as a high-quality, cross-platform, open source statistical software product—unless you’re in the business of crunching Big Data. This concise book introduces you to several strategies for using R to analyz... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: October 2011
How I automated my writing career - O'Reilly Radar By Robbie Allen You scale content businesses by increasing the number of people who create the content ... or so conventional wisdom says. Learn how a former author is using software to simulate and expand human-quality writing. Publish Date: November 03, 2011
Open source cuts microlending complexity - O'Reilly Radar By Matthew Russell Creating financial software for the developing world is tricky business. Variations between countries -- and between the banks within those countries -- make proprietary solutions unsustainable without massive investment. The Mifos Initiative has gone a different route: manage an open source project that lets banks customize software to meet their unique microlending needs. Publish Date: September 21, 2010
Four short links: 30 Jan 2009 - O'Reilly Radar By Nat Torkington Two serious links and two fun today, thanks to Waxy and BoingBoing: EveryBlock Business Model Brainstorming -- Adrian Holovaty's project was funded by a Knight Foundation grant that's about to run out. The software will be open sourced but he's inviting suggestions of business models that would enable the project team to continue working on it full-time. Having used and... Publish Date: January 30, 2009
Open Source Business Process Management - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio came to see me the other day, and I gave him the advice I give almost every entrepreneur: think about how you can move beyond just open source code to a broader architecture of participation, in which your users build collective value by automatically sharing the work product they create while using your software. Ismael... Publish Date: February 18, 2006
Four short links: 19 Mar 2009 - O'Reilly Radar By Nat Torkington Graphics, Sin, Smart Water Grids, and Invention--just another four short links: Libre Graphics Meeting -- meeting for developers of free graphics software such as Inkscape, , and Scribus. 6-9 May 2009, and they welcome sponsors. Great tools for desktop publishing, photo manipulation, illustration, etc. are what normal businesses and consumers want on their desktops. Lovely to see more Open Source... Publish Date: March 19, 2009
Open Source Business Readiness Ratings - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly OpenBRR.org is a Zagat-like site for the accumulation of ratings on the readiness of open source software for corporate use. As initially rolled out, the site contains a white paper proposing a ratings system, and some discussion forums to refine the proposal. The proposed rating system rates the corporate usability of open source software in 12 categories, including usability, quality,... Publish Date: August 01, 2005
The Economics of SaaS Companies - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly Will Price of Hummer Winblad did some interesting analysis of the relative economics of 1990s software businesses and the current generation of Software as a Service businesses: While the SaaS companies grew up in a different IPO market, the results suggest that SaaS companies take: 1.6x longer to get liquid 3.65x more capital 1.75x more revenue to hit profitability Salesforce,... Publish Date: January 25, 2007
Speaking of the Open Source Business Review - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly I was just looking at the program, and there are a lot of interesting sessions that demonstrate just how far open source has come from its hacker roots, and what a different set of issues enterprises think about when coming to grips with open source software. Here's a sampling: Leveraging Open Source for SOX Compliance (SOX = Sarbanes Oxley, the... Publish Date: July 14, 2005
Agile Portfolio Management, 1st Edition By Jochen Krebs Agile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects—when you can transform your entire business? Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: June 2008
OpenAds Funded by Index, Mangrove, First Round, OATV - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly This story has been heard before: distribute millions of copies of your open source software for free, then build a business by servicing the customers who're using that software. Red Hat, JBoss, MySQL have all made a great success with this business model. Why did it take so long for someone to figure out that this could also be a... Publish Date: June 13, 2007
By Nancy Duarte Presentation software requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. slide:ology offers pract... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: August 2008
Take the Money and Run? I think not. - O'Reilly Radar By Tim O'Reilly There's a scorching article on Forbes about the Sun acquisition of MySQL, entitled Cash Me Out: The End of Open Source as Counter-Culture: These deals have nothing to do with peace, love and software, and everything to do with money. The open source guys realize they can't build a decent business unless they hook up with the old closed source... Publish Date: February 20, 2008
By Dan Woods, Thomas Mattern Based on extensive research with experts from the German software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of enterprise SOA in a de... Format: Print, Ebook, Safari Books Online Publish Date: April 2006
Open Source and Hardware Support - O'Reilly Radar By Allison Randal A thoughtful post by chromatic on the problems and potential solutions around proprietary hardware and drivers with open source software: However, it’s clear that the normal approach-that is, complaining in small groups and rewarding vendors with your business anyway-is not working. Nor does reverse engineering drivers address the root of the problem. It’s valuable in that it mitigates the damage,... Publish Date: February 06, 2007
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