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I have a deep technical background in architecting, implementing and managing critical software solutions for the backoffice environment of financial institutions, with expertise in integration with Swift, financial messaging standards and various technologies. I'm motivated to extend my professional profile by participating at complex technological projects, having a born ambition to deliver more than against set goals. In my spare time I enjoy skiing and reading fiction novels.
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Hi Ivan,
Thanks for your comment. In my opinion, the open-source philosophy can and should be applied in any domain as it's more than openly sharing source code for computer applications. It's about creating a culture of sharing knowledge and collaboratively developing and improving certain areas to achieve all the advantages of open source like ease of access to information. Just think about how only a handful of people had access to books hundreds of years ago as opposed to now, when most of the population has the access and the knowledge of how to use them.
I'm in no position to give a recipe for a transition from traditional business to open business model, but surely an analogy can be made from our experience. Knowledge, as assets, can be openly shared (taking into
consideration confidentiality), but certain skills are required to use it. Therefore on-demand services for custom needs are what your new business model could rely on.
Hi Aseem,
Thanks for your feedback & sorry for the delayed answer but I've only seen your comment by chance as I haven't received any alerts. I'm planning to write a series of articles detailing each major step of this process – next one in 2014. To give you a quick answer on your question, the most challenging part was ensuring compliance between the code published under the FinTP project and the license restrictions of 3rd party software (whether open source or commercial). Each license has its own provisions when it comes to software redistribution that can be rather restrictive in some cases, and most of the time developers don’t pay attention to this legal stuff.