Richard Stallman, who many credit with starting the open source movement in software, liked to “distill” down the idea of the open source movement with this well-worn phrase: “Not Free as in Free Beer, Free as In Freedom”.
Well, now, according to this Wired post, Beer may have taken offense to Richard’s commentary & be ready [...]
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We’ve put out a new release of Coupa eProcurement on Sourceforge. A lot of technical work went into this one – notably including turning the Open Source Edition into a rails engine. Although I’ll be the first to admit no buyer would ever get excited about it, being a rails engine sets the stage for [...]
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I had several great conversations with partners and prospects today.. A standout was a call with a higher education institution that has downloaded a copy of Coupa eProcurement to play around with & pilot. It was one of those nice open source moments where you know that making the product truly accessible had a hand [...]
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We’ll have a corporate blog up shortly – and updates like these will be posted there once we do..
Some things we hope to introduce very soon include an online demo system for our Enterprise Edition (followed by Open Source Edition). We’ll have a lot better demo data in there then the skinny’d down database embedded [...]
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Worth a read. Definitely brings open source marketing to a new level, complete with the “Qtopia” label and the fact that they chose green as its color. It will be very interesting to see how this offering fares once it ships in September.
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Alex runs a blog called Open Source Unleased. A few weeks back Alex reached out to me and asked if I’d like to participate in an e-interview, something he’s done with a few other folks in the open source game. Here it is.
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I’ve been out there on the Coupa beat talking Open Source and Procurement since our July 27th launch of the Preview Release. It’s been both fun and entertaining.
Several interesting viewpoints (myths?) have come up as blockers to open source adoption that I thought I’d share.
1) Open source won’t ever work for Enterprise Applications, it only [...]
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Using Sourceforge as a proxy for activity in the open source movement, it’s interesting to see where the projects are today. And with over 100,000 active projects on Sourceforge alone, that can take quite a while.
There is a handy “map” (directory) of projects here. The top-level categories are Clustering, Database, Development, Enterprise, Financial, Games, Hardware, [...]
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The 8th annual open source convention wraps up today in Portland. I hope to make it there next year. On the open source startup advice front, Matt Asay had an interesting blog post summarizing his presentation. Good stuff Matt and thanks for sharing!
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If you go looking for a traditional requisition line category in the Coupa eProcurement Preview Release you will come up empty-handed. It’s not there. Of course, it’s MIA on purpose.
While I was at Oracle I kept trying to figure out how to solve the categorization riddle. On the one hand, classifying spend is a reporting/accounting [...]
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