Author Archives: Jack Germain
Kona’s Scott DeFusco: Open Source Advocate in a Closed Source Firm
- Apr
- 02
Kona, an innovative social networking platform for businesses and organizations, was launched in late 2012. It grew out of a vision developer Scott DeFusco had for a way to solve communications issues shared in peoples’ business and social lives. DeFusco and Kona cofounder Jeff Eckerle developed the new approach to online collaboration as an internal start-up within Deltek, an enterprise resource planning vendor
Sigil’s E-Book Editor Is a Bestseller
- Mar
- 20
If you package e-books in the EPUB format, one of the handiest editing tools available is Sigil. The growing interest in mobile apps and e-reader devices such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook is fueling the e-book business for both reading consumers and authors.
Black Duck’s Dave Gruber and Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing
- Mar
- 19
Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that “free stuff.” Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux. On the software development side of the computing industry, however, open source is known for much different reasons.