Ludovic Dubost, XWiki
Creator of XWiki and CEO of XWiki SAS, Ludovic has been the gentle organizer of the XWiki SAS company for 16 years.
XWiki SAS, only building free & open-source software leads the development of the XWiki Software used by thousands of organizations and helps companies and organizations all over the world organize, share, and collaborate on content. XWiki also leads the development of CryptPad (https://cryptpad.fr), the first end-to-end encrypted Collaboration Suite.
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (X90) and Telecom Paris (95), Ludovic Dubost started his career as a software architect for Netscape Communications Europe. He then joined NetValue as CTO, a company doing online usage analysis. He left NetValue after the company was purchased by Nielsen/NetRatings, before creating the XWiki Open Source software and launching XWiki SAS in 2004. Ludovic has been a speaker at various events including Paris Open Source Summit, FOSDEM, OW2 Conference, RMLL, Capitole du Libre, speaking about Collaboration Software, Financing FLOSS software and Privacy Solutions.
He also is a member of Systematic Paris Region Open Source Hub committee and the OpenFoodFacts board.
Session
In October 2020, Atlassian Plc., the proprietary software editor of Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo and other tools, has announced a major change of their product line, moving to be a "Cloud first" company and giving up their "server" historic product line which was the entry point for small teams (in small and large companies) wishing to run their software on-Premise.
Since then XWiki SAS, building the XWiki Open Source software competitor to Confluence is receiving many calls for migration. In this talk, I would like to present:
- our experience as a provider of an Open Source alternative
- analyze the reason why Proprietary software vendors end up progressively moving their customers to the Cloud and/or significantly raising prices
- explain why I believe this move is a very dangerous evolution of the software industry, making Open Source as important as ever
- share the experience of XWiki SAS on what we are putting in place to allow customers to transition to Open Source
- how could our industry avoid such situations by going earlier towards Open Source