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Big Ups for commercial use of the GPL

From an interview with Matt Asay in LinuxWorld on Alfresco:

The community felt otherwise and we were uncomfortable with that and so I made the decision to go to the GPLv2, which has been fantastic for the company in all respects. I mean literally, leads went up, page views went up, downloads went up, our registered community went up in significant percentages. Our sales went up 50 percentage. Our average sales price went up 25 percent, meaning the size of the deals went up. We’re now getting a thousand, two thousand leads per week. So everything was positive from it. we’ve made more money, not less. We have more community, not less. More community involvement. And that was the big driver behind it, is we wanted to license Alfresco under a license that meant that nobody had to be concerned with the company. Any developer out there, whether they’re a Drupal developer looking for robust repository to use with Drupal. And we’ve actually talked with the Drupal team, with Dries, the founder of Drupal, about this. Anybody who wanted to have a piece that Alfresco had, we didn’t want them to have to think about well, I don’t really want to deal with Alfresco’s company. I don’t trust them. They’re a corporation. They might be nice guys, but their interests are not aligned with ours. And so putting it under the GPL seemed like the best way to do that. It was making it completely free of Alfresco’s influence other than our development influence in continuing to add to that store of code that we’re writing.

Pretty glowing comments and results from switching from an attribution license to the GPL.

In other commercial GPL news, NetBeans 6.0 will be dual-licensed with CDDL/GPL+Classpath.

(For context, see BMC using the BSD.)

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Categories: Development Tools, Marketing, Open Source.

By cote
— August 20, 2007 at 11:03 am

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— August 20, 2007 at 1:18 am

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— August 19, 2007 at 1:17 am

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By linkposter
— August 18, 2007 at 1:18 am

del.icio.us links or Google Reader shared items?

Now that I’m using Google Reader (which I hate/like 50/50), I must ask if you, dear readers, would prefer the daily link posts of my del.icio.us bookmarks or seeing my Google Reader shared items?

I haven’t really worked out if those two compete or if they server different purposes. I’ll admit that I like paging through those shared items — right now I’m looking through Ryan Stewart’s and it’s fun! But, I’m not sure if I should switch from the daily del.icio.us posts (mostly, I think not).

That said, I wanted to check: or see if there was some way of using shared items in Google Reader along with del.icio.us that be better than using just one or the other.

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By cote
— August 17, 2007 at 4:17 pm

More on barcampESM: video!

Last week while the three where up at LinuxWorld, I talked with whurley, John Willis, and Mark Hinkle about barcampESM. If you’ve still got questions about what barcampESM is, this is a good video to watch as the three go into detail about the goals and hopes for getting the IT management community together.

We shot this in sort of DIY, remote style: I was on the speaker phone (for them) and recording myself on my iSight, while the three of them were filming with whurley’s HV20. So, if you see them huddling down around the table, that’s them ear-squinting to listen to me. Overall, it was a nice and fun format: I’m always trying to get people at conferences to record a little something remotely like this, so I appreciate it from these three: thanks!

Disclaimer: BMC and Zenoss are clients, as is IBM which John mentions by way of Tivoli.

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— August 17, 2007 at 7:54 am

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— August 15, 2007 at 1:22 am

Biz-word Bingo "On The Table"

Seth Godin posted a fun list of over-used business phrases. For example, the current #11:

Brings a lot of value to the table

I always liked this idea of “the table.” NPR’s On the Media had a great segment this week about The Table and how much you can stick on it. The Table has the magical property that, once something is on it, it can’t come off.

Of course, for my money, I always liked Econobonics best, e.g.:

31. “Put it on the treadmill and see if it will move the needle on the Geiger counter”

  • Desc: Holy Crap!
  • Users: Only one individual has dared to say this beast.
  • Example: Well team, I have no idea how the “E”-goat farm is going to pan out. I suggest we Put it on the treadmill and see if it will move the needle on the Geiger counter.
  • Type: idiocy

And, of course, my favorite:

1. “Throw up all over”

  • Desc: Used to describe the the unhappiness of one party with another party’s deliverables.
  • Users: Middle managers who are presenting a subordinates report/idea to upper management
  • Example: Holy Christ! Look at this margin degradation! Paxton over in Purchasing is going to throw up all over this.
  • Type: nausea

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Categories: The Analyst Life.

By cote
— August 14, 2007 at 11:05 pm