Open 2010 – Open Source Conference
18 May, 2010 -
Platonix is very excited to be giving two talks at Open Israel. We’ll be speaking about Django Web Development Platform and Business Models in the Open Source World, and we are proud to be sponsoring the conference as well. The OPEN 2010 is taking place on Thursday, June 10, 2010 at Cinema City, Glilot Junction, Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
Open source technologies are used in a wide array of IT in enterprises today, and these open source solutions are as capable as their proprietary counterparts to stand the toughest tests of their environment. The OPEN 2010 conference will focus on the open technologies that are already fully developed and suitable for adoption and offer a significant ROI benefit the organization.
Django is a popular platform for its stability and power. The Onion Tech team describes why they prefer Django here, “Cleaner. Much cleaner. Proper unit testing. Real reusable components across applications. An ORM rather than a just a series of functional query helpers. Tighter conventions… We can update then test a Django core change without worrying about having to take apart our applications, and if we do need to make a change, it’s easy to do because there’s less, much more readable code. Every member of the tech team can meaningfully contribute because there are fewer specialized or hacked together pieces. We can move more quickly on large changes because of all these reasons. And we’re more stable because of all the previously expressed points.”
For a piece of software to be called Open Source, it must (among other things) be freely redistributable. This seems like a severe restriction for anyone trying to make a living producing such software. And yet, a collection of companies, business units and individuals manage to generate fine revenues, and even exits, by writing source code that is released to the public. We will examine several such cases, from one-man projects and small start-ups to companies worth billions. We will explore the different business models which allow this apparent miracle to happen; peek into the economic support structures, which enable many of the great achievements of the Free and Open Source Software community.
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