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• The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives

  Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives . I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify Read More... Posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:34 AM by Christof | 1 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0

• Global Nomads at db4objects

  It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off. But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also Read More... Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 4:20 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: db4objects, Globalization 3.0

• Meeting the Open Source Community in India

  I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore. Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much Read More... Posted Saturday, November 25, 2006 8:38 AM by Christof | 1 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Globalization 3.0

• Open source globalization benefits organizations, individuals

  http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/21009 Open source software can help manage large software projects of globally distributed, individual contributors with virtually no management overhead. As open source blends more and more with the commercial Read More... Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 5:24 PM by Christof | 8 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Globalization 3.0

• China is the next great Internet battleground

  Interesting article on Baidu in the NYT today on the significance of China, which, as the world's fast growing (large) economy, is seen as the next great Internet battleground -- an analysis in line with ours. I'm very happy with the progress we have Read More... Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:29 AM by Christof | 3 Comments Filed under: db4objects, Globalization 3.0, China

• The World is Flat - Globalization 3.0 and db4objects

  Every once in a while there are these books that just nail it down. Tom Friedman's " The World is Flat " is one of these books. I had the great pleasure to meet Tom at the TieCon 2005 in San Jose in May and have rushed to buy and read his book since. Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:46 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0

• Open source collaboration tools

  We were asked to participate in a EU research project to develop next generation collaborative working tools, together with DaimlerChrysler and ABB. This made me think for a second before I realized how important it was for db4objects to exclusively use Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:49 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0

• Building db4o Community and Sales in Asia

  I'll be on a 2 weeks trip through Asia starting tomorrow, 3/1. I'll fly into Tokyo and will then move on to Taiwan, Hongkong, Vietnam and Thailand. My goal is to learn more about the specific issues around building an open source community in Asia and Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 2:02 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Globalization 3.0

• Open source talent seeking

  Now the corporate guys wake up and learn that one of the greatest advantages of an open source project is the ability to recruit the best talent from anywhere on the globe. IBM now wants to build outreach programs to recruit more people with Brazil leading Read More... Posted Monday, February 14, 2005 2:03 AM by Christof | 0 Comments Filed under: Open Source, db4objects, Silicon Valley, Globalization 3.0