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February 04, 2008
Put your open source Collaboration Software survey "in the mail"

Attention all open source collaboration/groupware/office-suite software projects and organizations: I am researching the next in a series of OSS-related application research articles for ebizQ.

Previous OSS application research has covered enterprise content management and business intelligence software.

My next application article, scheduled for March 2008 release, will focus on open source software (OSS) designed to promote group collaboration or productivity. Collaboration is one of the key themes for March on ebizQ as outlined in Elizabeth's editorial calendar. We think key issues to look at are document formats such as ODF and OOXML, and support for non-standard form factors such as mobile devices and appliances. If we're wrong, this is the time to tell us so. Another factor we're researching is the extent to which entire suites of collaboration software are available. Will the process by which spell checkers integrated into word processors and word processors integrated into other personal productivity tools like spreadsheets and personal productivity tools morphed into office/collaboration/groupware software repeat itself in the OSS world.

Open source collaboration software and services, including collaboration/groupware/office software as a service (SaaS) offerings based on OSS, will be covered. If your company or OSS community develops open source collaboration/groupware/office software and would like to formally participate in my data collection, please download and complete the 1-page survey form (see "Download File" below) and return to dennis@ebizq.net by Wednesday February 20, 2008

Download file

Note that as the survey indicates, software products will be covered in the report if they use OSS (e.g., bundle in an OSS application server product such as Geronimo) even if they are not “sold” as OSS themselves and no matter how they are monetized.