Socialtext Open – enterprise Wiki under an Open Source license

Socialtext has released Socialtext Open (Press Release, Download via SourceForge) a version of their enterprise wiki under an open source license. According to the company this is the, “first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor.” Socialtext Open includes, “all of Socialtext’s enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and enterprise integration tools. Socialtext also announced the availability of its Technical Professional Service, a new SOAP API and the Socialtext Open Roadmap for the next three months.” The Technical Professional Service provides support, consulting and developer services for $240/hr, and this seems to be the growing model for monetizing open source. In higher ed, The rSmart Group provides end-to-end support, consulting, deployment, etc. for open source course management (Sakai) and financial (Kuali) tools.

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