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Angry Bear (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
By Stormy Peter Morici, stellar economist from the University of Maryland, concludes that the stock market has voted: The bailout will not work. Morici has been one of the few voices that have consistently complained about the U.S. trade deficit. As usual, few economists, except Morici, see the connection between our massive trade deficit and the financial mess. Without fixing the former,...
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Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... what others have to say about open source marketing (Fabrizio Capobianco of the Funambol fame and Stormy Peters, now employed at the GNOME foundation, just to mention a couple of the pipelined ones). [tags]InitMarketing, InitMarketing.tv, Open Source Marketing, FabrizioCapobianco, StormyPeters, BrucePerens[/tags]
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Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Reading Matt Asay's speculations about making money off open source, or conversely Stormy Peters arguing about who is going to pay open source production of code, I remembered about the five (or six) Ws formula (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How). Few good questions by Oberazzi Talking about making money from open source we often take for granted that we are talking of IT SMEs. In a...
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Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Updates from the Open Source Census, the survey launched in April by OpenLogic to collect quantitative data on the use of open source software. Up today 2,181 machines have been scanned with OSS Discovery, discovering over 767 unique open source packages and nearly 300,000 open source package inm stallations. founding on average 57 unique packages per enterprise. Stormy Peters, now Executive...
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ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Stormy Peters reflects on where community managers ought to reside in the corporate structure. According to Bernard Golden, community managers ought to be in the support structure of a business. I've heard sillier things, but I'm not convinced by a long shot. Right now, most of the community managers I know (and it's a rapidly growing field, I didn't know any "community manager" types...
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Commercial Open Source Software (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
... falls everywhere on the long tail - is more of an opportunity than a challenge to Sourceforge. Stormy Peters rightly says that developers involved with open source projects in the long tail are reachable by forums and email. That is just how OpenLogic maintains relationships with developers on 400 projects. Other organizations, either IT consumers or producers (system integrators...
