Codefidence Ltd. http://codefidence.com Open Source Software Consulting, Training and Development Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:50:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 CELF ELC Europe 2009 presentation now available http://codefidence.com/posts/celf-elc-europe-2009-presentation-now-available http://codefidence.com/posts/celf-elc-europe-2009-presentation-now-available#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:50:55 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=280 Our very own Gilad Ben-Yossef recently gave a presentation at the 2009 CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe entitled: “The Good, the bad and the ugly: on threads, processes and co-processes”.

The code the presentation is based on is available at Github.

The slides are now available on-line here:
The Good, the bad and the ugly: on threads, processes and coprocesses

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/celf-elc-europe-2009-presentation-now-available/feed 1 Open Source: From Tactic to Strategy http://codefidence.com/posts/open-source-from-tactic-to-strategy http://codefidence.com/posts/open-source-from-tactic-to-strategy#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:51:52 +0000 gby http://codefidence.com/?p=270 Gilad Ben-Yossef, our CTO, will present a talk entitled “Open Source: From Tactic to Strategy” to the IP Forum hosted by Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP law firm.

The talks explain briefly what is Open Source, discuss the different stages in an Open Source project life cycle and explores various business models of how commercial entities can engage Open Source at the tactic and strategic levels to achieve business goals.

You can view them on-line via Scribd here:

OSS: From Tactic to Strategy

IP Forum From Tactic To Strategy Gilad Ben-Yossef Codefidence Ltd. (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence About Me, About US     CTO of Codefidence Ltd. Open Source experts boutique Assisting our customers make use of Open Source software on a tactic and strategist level Startup to NASDAQ clients (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence What is Open Source?   Software requires effort and costs to build Software does not require effort and cost to duplicate No 1:1 relation between cost to number of users Free Software: Ideology, equality, the digital divide, democratization of technology. Open Source: Interesting business qualities.    (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence What Gartner Says on OSS Use  “By 2012, 80 per cent of all commercial software will include elements of open-source technology.” (http://tr.im/nT99) “By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms.” (http://tr.im/nTdl) ”… 85 percent of companies currently using OSS and the remaining 15 percent expecting to in the next 12 months.” (http://tr.im/nTd7)   e r A r e g n n t o r r a G W (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence The Truth  There is no single organization in the world which does not make use of Open Source right now. Most are not aware of it. Many uses are skunk work initiatives, unknown to management. Many other embedded as part of commercial products and services.    (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence Spot the Open Source Users       Microsoft Bing search engine Edimax Wireless Router The Marker web site New York Stock Exchange Cisco new Blade Servers HTC G1, Apple iPhone and Palm Pre cell phones 88% of the top 500 super computer site (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence  What About Your Organization?  Does your organization use Open Source software? Do you use it wisely? Do you use Open Source at a Strategy or Tactic level?   (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence Open Source Project Life Cycle Delivery ”This is useful!” Monetization, O’reilly book, Conference Corporate users, 20/80 dev/users i18n / L10n, Windows port, GSoC Comes with RedHat / Suse ”This is cool!” Promise Plausible promise, Work 4 me Early adopters, 80/20 dev/users Working code, rough consensus Download RPM/Deb Idea ”I want this to happen!” Scratching an itch Closely knit team ,100/0 dev/users Pure promise, little code Build from source code only (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence Open Source Life Cycle Examples Delivery ”This is useful!” ”This is cool!” Promise Idea ”I want this to happen!” Linux Firefox MySQL Apache PHP Wordpress Xen SugarCRM KVM Asterisk Alfresco DimDim OpenBravo OpenVPN Wireshark Qemu ClamAV Thunderbird Wine Gimp Gaim DimDim GNUCash GNU Octave Almost everything on SourceForge.net (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence OSS Involvement Motives Delivery ”This is useful!”  Tactic  Treadmill Free Lunch  ”This is cool!” Promise  Complimenters Strategy Idea ”I want this to happen!” Coopetition Freemium  (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence The Free Lunch Model  An intermediate COCOMO model evaluation l estimates the cost to re-develop the Linux kernel at $612 million US.  David A. Wheeler, http://tr.im/nvDl  Google generates a lot of cash using its estimated 500k Linux servers Apple makes a lot of cash from sales of BSD running Macs and iPhones.  (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence The Treadmill   Client requirement: Sprocket support Your company   Evaluate cost of in-house vs. outside Create a work plan, allocate staff and execute or create SRS, engage vendor, manage development Integrate, Test, Fix & Deliver apt-get install libsprocket Integrate, Test, Fix & Deliver (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence   Cheap Chinese Competitor   Complimenters  Anything required by my customer to use my product and which I do not sell is a complimenter to my product. Software for hardware makers   Intel financing KVM.  OS for Database, firewall, backup software vendors.  Checkpoint providing hardened Linux distribution. Google building Android OSS mobile phone stack (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence  Browsers and smart phones for SAAS vendors  Coopetition   Cooperation between Competitors Same needs, competitive advantage not justifiable by cost. Advantage of single platform outweighs competitive advantage Apache was formed by first web hosting companies Both Google and Apple use WebKit as basis for their web browser (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence    Freemium     Free with a Premium Price Discrimination with entry level of zero Business class gets assurance and support. The Open Core variant: free core, proprietary add-ons. (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence Build OSS Into Your IP Strategy Delivery ”This is useful!” Tactic Promise ”This is cool!” Idea ”I want this to happen!” Strategy (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence Thank You For Listening! Questions?       Codefidece Ltd.: http://codefidence.com Community site: http://tuxology.net My personal Blog : http://firstpost.org Email: gilad@codefidence.com Phone: +972-52-8260388 Twitter: @giladby (C) 2008,2009 Codefidence
]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/open-source-from-tactic-to-strategy/feed 0 Do Androids Dreap of Electronic Sheep? http://codefidence.com/posts/do-androids-dreap-of-electronic-sheep http://codefidence.com/posts/do-androids-dreap-of-electronic-sheep#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 13:59:38 +0000 gby http://codefidence.com/?p=265 Our CTO and Chief Coffee Drinker, Gilad Ben-Yossef, recently gave a lecture at the Herzelinux Linux club about Android, the Open Source stack for mobile devices from Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

The slides are available here.

First part of the video of the lecture (in Hebrew) is available courtesy of Crictor here:

To the next parts: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/do-androids-dreap-of-electronic-sheep/feed 0 New article about compiler optimization http://codefidence.com/posts/new-article-about-compiler-optimization http://codefidence.com/posts/new-article-about-compiler-optimization#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 07:15:48 +0000 gby http://codefidence.com/?p=262 We’ve just posted a new article entitled: “Helping the compiler help you” about various compiler optimisation techniques that can be used with GCC and G++ on the Tuxology tehcno-blog.

Enjoy!

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/new-article-about-compiler-optimization/feed 0 Android phone and Drupal CMS: a match made in heaven http://codefidence.com/posts/android-and-drupal http://codefidence.com/posts/android-and-drupal#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:24:03 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=256 Being  leaders in the field of commercial applications of Open Source requires us to always work hard to stay ahead of the pack, at the bleeding tip of technology.

As part of the effort to this we’re always on the look for small non commercial Open Source projects that allow us to learn the latest and greatest technologies and trends.

This time, our quest for innovation led us to cooperate with a partner company Linnovate, which specializes in the Open Source Drupal CMS framework. Togther with Linnovate, we’ve created an Android application that allows Drupal site manager to stay tuned to what happens in their Drupal site even when they are away from their desks.

Here is the video of our little technology proof of concept demo:



So, if you are looking for a sophisticated web platform with full mobile integration, give us a buzz.

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Here is a preview:

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/crictor-gloom-and-doom/feed 1 LinuxDevices: Getting started with an embedded Linux system emulator http://codefidence.com/posts/getting-started-with-an-embedded-linux-system-emulator http://codefidence.com/posts/getting-started-with-an-embedded-linux-system-emulator#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:24:54 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=123 Our CTO, Gilad Ben Yossef, article entitled “Building an embedded Linux system emulator”, which was originally posted to our tech blog, Tuxology, got picked up by LinuxDevices.com.

To the article…

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/getting-started-with-an-embedded-linux-system-emulator/feed 0 Web site update http://codefidence.com/posts/web-site-update http://codefidence.com/posts/web-site-update#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:24:35 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=56 An ancient software architect proverb reads: “There is never time to do it right, but there is always time for a re-write”, and with web sites, it is doubly true.

With this in mind, we proudly present the beta version of our new web site. Hope you will find it pleasent and useful. Expect more changes in the near future.

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/web-site-update/feed 0 O’reilly: An array of embedded Linux expertise http://codefidence.com/posts/oreilly-an-array-of-embedded-linux-expertise http://codefidence.com/posts/oreilly-an-array-of-embedded-linux-expertise#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:35:57 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=166 An article by O’reilly editor, Andy Oram, about the second edition of the book “Building Embedded Linux Systems” which was co-authored by Gilad Ben-Yossef, Codefidence CTO.

To the article…

]]> http://codefidence.com/posts/oreilly-an-array-of-embedded-linux-expertise/feed 2 InformationWeek: Linux Is Now Mainstream http://codefidence.com/posts/informationweek-linux-is-now-mainstream http://codefidence.com/posts/informationweek-linux-is-now-mainstream#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:30:36 +0000 admin http://codefidence.com/?p=162 The Israeli Tech magazine InformationWeek published an interview (in Hebrew) with Gilad Ben-Yossef, Codefidnce CTO, about a panel in RedHat “The World Is Open” conference discussing Linux success in corporate IT.

To the article…

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