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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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The Secret Ingredient to a Successful Open Source Project
The Secret Ingredient to a Successful Open Source Project

By: Clint Oram
Jun. 5, 2006 03:00 PM

When re-thinking the manufacturing process of enterprise software, most companies nowadays determine to leverage open source to boost popularity and attention onto their product lines.  But converting projects into products is not easy, and some secret ingredients that aren't covered in the code sharing are vital for generating future success.  These key ingredients are how the project is built, the architecture of the enterprise software to be modular & open, a clear vision and definition of what the project and product will deliver, a clear separation between the open source aspects and the commercial aspects, and most importantly trust from the community that the project at every stage in life is extremely beneficial to their daily needs and will continue to be so with the future direction.

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About Clint Oram
Clint Oram, Co-Founder and General Manager of Sugar Online. Clint Oram is one of three co-founders of SugarCRM and led the product design as well as the customer services team through the first year of business. He is now responsible for managing SugarCRM's community and SugarForge.org, the premiere destination for community collaboration on Sugar Suite extensions, modules, language packs and themes. SugarForge.org empowers the community to leverage the combined ideas of developers around the world, by offering the toolset and location to manage and distribute new community-developed Sugar Suite extensions to the benefit of all SugarCRM users. In addition, SugarForge.org offers a range of support for those who need assistance with Sugar Suite development or implementation. Oram's 8 years in enterprise software experience spans Product Management, Professional Services and Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding SugarCRM, Oram worked at E.piphany, Octane Software, Hewlett Packard and PG&E. Oram holds a BS in Computer Science.

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