Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 4)

Sramana: ERP has largely been a channel business and the accountants choose the accounting system, especially in the small business world. Somehow you have managed to make open source ERP a valid strategy for your company. How did you do it? Paolo Juvara: The adaptability of our solution is the reason we have been successful

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Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 3)

Sramana: You had a lot of success on SourceForge.net, but how did you create your brand in the greater open source community? Paolo Juvara: In September 2007, we began to consistently rank as the No. 1 project on SourceForge.net. That was a huge achievement for us. We even made project of the month. We also

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Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 2)

Sramana: What was the impact of using SourceForge.net for the repository, and when did that happen? Paolo Juvara: We put the product on SourceForge.net in 2006, and the result was amazing. There was such a high level of activity that OpenBravo was on the front page of the website. OpenBravo was consistently among the top

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Building An Open Source ERP Company From Pamplona, Spain: OpenBravo CEO Paolo Juvara (Part 1)

Paolo Juvara is the CEO of OpenBravo, an open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) company. Prior to joining OpenBravo in 2007, he was based in Redwood Shores, California, working for Oracle Corporation in applications development. He held a broad range of development and management roles within Oracle’s Applications business, including positions on the financials, supply

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Open Source Go-To-Market Success: Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung (Part 7)

Sramana: Has your company philosophy helped you to retain your employees? Bryan Cheung: People stay with Liferay because they have a passion for technology, but ultimately they came to a place where they could do more than earn a paycheck. They want to work for a company that is doing something beyond just building another

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Open Source Go-To-Market Success: Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung (Part 6)

Sramana: How do you facilitate integrating Liferay with other technologies such as Java application servers? Did you develop adapters? Bryan Cheung: The nice thing is that because we adhere to open standards, as long as we implement the standard we can achieve integration. There is a content management standard called CMIS which is supported by

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Open Source Go-To-Market Success: Liferay CEO Bryan Cheung (Part 5)

Sramana: Does your software help IT organizations personalize work environments for their users? Bryan Cheung: There are two things going on. The personalization aspect is now broadening: It is not just about personalization for the individual, it is about communities. It is about getting social with the work we are doing.

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