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At Optaros, most retailers are asking us the following question:

“We’ve done product ratings and reviews, what social shopping features should we implement in 2009?”

The 2009 Social E-Commerce Guide answers the question:

• Suggested approach to plan for 2009
• 32 different options to consider with links to example websites
• Options categorized by adoption rate among retailers

Get it here.

This IDC study contains a five-year forecast for worldwide revenue from standalone open source software.

“Revenue from standalone open source software is growing significantly,” said Matt Lawton, program director of IDC’s Open Source Software Business Strategies research program. “This is particularly important for independent vendors of open source software. However, we need to also provide some context. Standalone open source software is an important but small segment of open source software. Large vendors are realizing significant revenues indirectly from their activities with and support of embedded and complementary open source software. In addition, unpaid open source software adoption is significant but not included in our revenue estimates.”

FOSSBazaar is a work group of the Linux Foundation, maintaining a community platform for open source experts and enterprises aiming at open source education. It’s focus is on governance best practices, automation tools, and open communication to accelerate adoption of free and open source software in the enterprise. Specifically, FOSSBazaar aims to:

• Expand upon the open source value proposition for a richer, safer, less expensive, and better overall IT experience.
• Focus on timely issues such as license management and support as open source software matures and becomes adopted more widely in IT environments.

FOSSology are tools around what the name says “the study of free and open source software”. Conceptually, I understand you load any FOSS into the application/repository, have it analyzed and the results filled into the FOSSology database and then you get some web output on governance relevant findings.

Both FOSSBazaar and FOSSology are spearheaded by HP and include several industry leaders in open source service providers and projects.

Optaros is supporting this years OSMB conference in Nuremberg January 22nd to 24th. There is a Enterprise Summit, Technology Summit and an Investment Summit.

We are co-running one of the four workshops “Open Source as a toolbox for enterprise IT” Tuesday from 11 am to 1 pm and we’ll have a presentation on OptAM, the Optaros Assembly Methodology.

Find the details here.

[Update]
I got a call from the HP Customer Relation Team today (June 11th - last post was from February 13th). They were pointed out to this blog entry and were wondering if there was any open issue with regards to this case. If so I could address the CR team manager directly.
I wanted to make sure this is added to the log and also would like to mention that I do actually give them credit for following up.
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I do actually have other things to do than writing my blog. But this is not why I was so “quiet” the last couple of weeks. The real reason was Hewlett Packard, the #1 in customer satisfaction when it comes to commercial notebooks: Over Christmas my beloved HP laptop (nx8220) started some funny behavior. Random reboots, slow hard disk reads, blue screens and the like. By new years the fault had left me with a scrambled Windows installation and a serious set of damaged files. Having found a set of Atapi errors (1781 and 1782 disk failure) in the system’s event log and a couple of unsuccessful hard disk tests I decided to quickly update my backup and get on the line with HP to make use of my 3 year next business day on-site HW support warranty… (more…)