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Deal Radar 2009: Colosa
Deal Radar returns to a hot topic, enterprise open source, via an area that it has not covered recently: business process management. South America-based Colosa develops software solutions that help companies automate approval-based workflow processes by interconnecting people and systems across the organization. The company offers a free open source application, ProcessMaker®, which is an AJAX-enabled,
Deal Radar 2009: Hippo
You’ve often heard me use the expression Built To Enjoy. Today’s Deal Radar showcases a quintessential Built To Enjoy company. Hippo is an open source information centered Content Management System (CMS) which targets medium to large enterprises to manage their content for multi-channel distribution like websites and intranets. The company has been around for ten
Deal Radar 2009: Coverity
One of the reviewers of EJ2: Bootstrapping, Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction on Amazon wrote: “I don’t think it was appropriate to even mention venture capital or angel investors in this book.” My response was, “One of the nuggets that I have picked up from my experience navigating the entrepreneurial waters is that it is wise
Deal Radar 2009: EnterpriseDB
Deal Radar kicks the week off with yet another open source company, but one with rather large aspirations. EnterpriseDB was formed in an attempt to disrupt the three-company (Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft) oligopoly that controls the enterprise database market, of which Oracle owns more than half. The company says that as a result of this
Deal Radar 2009: concrete5
Long gone are the days of Web 1.0, when Internet content was generated by a relative few and website design was the exclusive domain of professionals. And as more people generate richer content, entrepreneurs are recognizing the need for better systems to manage it. Our latest Deal Radar company is concrete5, an open source content management
Deal Radar 2009: xTuple
Cost-cutting is still at the top of many an executive’s mind as the recession continues. Today’s Deal Radar company, xTuple, uses open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) to help enterprises streamline their operations at a lower cost without a vendor lock-in. Its main products, xTuple ERP: PostBooks and Standard and Manufacturing Editions, include capabilities for accounting, customer relationship
Deal Radar 2009: Webtide
Deal Radar swings back towards open source with Webtide, a company that provides open source server and communications components of the Internet: Jetty, an open source Java web container, and Cometd, a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus from the Dojo Foundation. Webtide provides customized packages of these components for form factor, subscription deployment support, and subscription development
Deal Radar 2009: Kaltura
Today’s focus on Deal Radar is Kaltura, the first open source video platform for online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. The New York-based company, whose development team is based in Israel, was founded by Ron Yekutiel, Dr. Shay David, Dr. Michal Tsur and Eran Etam in 2006. The founders felt that that there was
