Stefan Wess of Attensity Group published an article that describes Attensity Empolis long road to finally deciding to invest into Open Source and to initiate SMILA base on that decision.
This is even more astonishing we taking into consideration, that Attensity Group with more than 500 enterprise clients is one of the worlds leading providers of information logistics solutions. If anyone could ever have economies of scale in reinventing the wheel for information logistics, then Attensity Group would definitely be it.
This is even more astonishing we taking into consideration, that Attensity Group with more than 500 enterprise clients is one of the worlds leading providers of information logistics solutions. If anyone could ever have economies of scale in reinventing the wheel for information logistics, then Attensity Group would definitely be it.
Still they decided otherwise and Stefan explains that this was due to two reasons:
1) They listened to their clients who like the idea
2) They analyzed past sales and sale profitability and found that customers were choosing Attensity group for its unique technology and not the technology it was built on
We have been very closely involved in this decision process and of course Stefans decision to give us the go ahead to launch the project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.
We spoke with other German partners and clients and they all agreed - the future will belong to hybrid solutions that share the cost of a deployment platform built in an Open Source setting while creating an ideal setting to leverage ones technological and process USPs in a way that creates the biggest value for the user.
If you are curious to learn why one of the worlds leading information logistics companies decided to initiate SMILA with brox, please read Stefan Wess post at Attensity.com:
http://www.attensity.com/en/Company/Blog/2009/08/YesWeDoOpenSource.php
1) They listened to their clients who like the idea
2) They analyzed past sales and sale profitability and found that customers were choosing Attensity group for its unique technology and not the technology it was built on
We have been very closely involved in this decision process and of course Stefans decision to give us the go ahead to launch the project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.
We spoke with other German partners and clients and they all agreed - the future will belong to hybrid solutions that share the cost of a deployment platform built in an Open Source setting while creating an ideal setting to leverage ones technological and process USPs in a way that creates the biggest value for the user.
If you are curious to learn why one of the worlds leading information logistics companies decided to initiate SMILA with brox, please read Stefan Wess post at Attensity.com:
http://www.attensity.com/en/Company/Blog/2009/08/YesWeDoOpenSource.php
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