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Technology strategies and Applications: Over the course of the next few weeks I'd like to sketch out three sets of business requirements and then ask which technologies, and correspondingly what kind of IT organization, would be best for each.This week I'd like to start that process with an imaginary research engineering company - the...; Tags: Productivity, Development, Database Management, Applications; Blog posts 2007-08-02
How real are the 451 findings?: Dan Farber is featuring news of another 451 Group study showing that open source is "just about" to take over the system management business.As Yogi Berra once said, "it's deja vu all over again."I have been giving, and getting, this prediction since I first joined ZDNet almost three years ago....; Tags: support, Security, Network Administration, middleware, Infrastructure, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications; Blog posts 2007-08-01
Microsoft Project to get open source competition: Projity, which has been selling its project management software in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS), will launch an open source version at LinuxWorld next week, under the name OpenProj.CEO Marc O'Brien said download and community sites should be ready in time for the show, but that the company...; Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, marketing, Implementations, General, Events, Distributions, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27
WHurley spins BMC into open source: William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch, I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...; Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27
Whose is the most popular open source database?: Well, mySQL of course, why?Well, because PostgreSQL has sent out its take on the recent Alfresco survey which shows that it's where the action is.Here are the key numbers: Community usage: 62% MySQL; 9% PostgreSQL Evaluation usage: 50% MySQL; 23% PostgreSQL Deployment usage: 40% MySQL; 28% PostgreSQLThe PostgreSQL take on this is people...; Tags: Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-26

Sugar sweet for GPLv3: The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license.The bigger news may be the identity of the license, GPLv3.Currently Sugar uses a version of the Mozilla Public License, adding a non-standard "attribution" requirement...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications, GPL; Blog posts 2007-07-26
Dear Zonbu, think server: Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...; Tags: Database Management, business models, Applications, General, Hardware, Implementations, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, management, marketing, mass market, Network Administration, Software as a Service, Strategy, support, wireless; Blog posts 2007-07-25
Can open source make Mike Lawrie a winner?: Mike Lawrie (right), the one-time IBM executive who tried and failed to turn around Siebel Systems (now part of Oracle) is back in management with a British outfit, Misys, and betting on open source for a turnaround.The company is dumping some of its product businesses and concentrating on online services....; Tags: Applications, General, mergers &, acquisitions, marketing, management, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Psst. Want to know everything on your network?: Having divested their proprietary wireless security tool, the folks at Network Chemistry are using the open source process to develop a universal network scanning and reporting system.What CTO Chris Waters calls Project Wishbone is based on RogueScanner, a scanning tool originally created to find viruses and other rogue programs.Now the GPL...; Tags: support, Strategy, Software as a Service, Infrastructure, Hardware, GPL, General, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-23
Does Everex benefit open source market?: Everex has released a $298 back to school desktop system built around Open Office and Windows Vista.While the company's press release emphasizes energy efficiency and productivity, the big news here is it's being sold at Wal-Mart.The marketing screams open source, but the PC itself runs Windows Vista, replacing only Microsoft...; Tags: Strategy, Not Linux, Microsoft, mass market, marketing, Hardware, General, education, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously: Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory.It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.But in doing this it also includes projects like SugarCRM whose open...; Tags: support, Standards, Software Licensing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Blindly applying proprietary metrics to open source: I am constantly amused at how people try to apply the metrics of proprietary software to open source.This can even happen within open source companies, as when Roy Russo of JBOSS writes on his blog that open source inherently leads to monopoly.In fact every business model leads to monopoly, or something...; Tags: Strategy, Red Hat, publishing, mergers &, acquisitions, management, Linux, Infrastructure, General, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-18
What is Intel's mobile Linux game?: Intel has a new mobile Linux project dubbed Moblin (right).It includes a Linux kernel, a framework for a user interface, a browser, a multimedia framework, and embedded image creation tools, along with developer resources.Sounds great until you realize there are a ton of other, similar frameworks under development. Nokia backs Maemo,...; Tags: wireless, telecom, Strategy, mobile, Linux, Hardware, General, Development, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-17
DRM and open source are the great divide: If there is any word other than Microsoft which can get an argument going among open source advocates, it is DRM. (The t-shirt is available here.)DRM, Digital Rights Management, is generally found in the form of an encryption wrapper giving control of the content to a rights holder. DRM is...; Tags: mass market, Legal, Hardware, GPL, General, FOSS, content, business models, Applications, Apple; Blog posts 2007-07-16
Does open source make business decisions political?: Of all the relationships changed by open source, perhaps the most nagging is that between business and politics.There's another taste of that in today's news, word the BBC is looking to make an open source version of its iPlayer.The BBC had made a business decision to work with Microsoft in...; Tags: politics, Microsoft, Legal, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-16
What are open source committers worth?: In the wild a peacock's tail tells the hens he's sexy, notes Nat Tolkington of O'Reilly.They also tell predators he's delicious. (Picture from the blog of Miles McCabe.)Open source commitment privileges have a similar effect.When I first took this beat, in early 2005, it was common for companies to brag...; Tags: support, Red Hat, mergers &, acquisitions, marketing, management, General, Development, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-13
VARs still have Long Reach in small business market: In the real world of small business, costs matter more than license terms.These are Michael Whitehead's customers at The Long Reach in Ottawa, Canada."All businesses really care is can I get something that's cost effective, which does the job, which is priced to suit my business, and do I have someone...; Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, mass market, marketing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-13
Medsphere begin again: Two years after throwing over its founders and making a public domain code base proprietary, Medsphere is seeking a new CEO and a new start with the open source movement."The community edition licenses are on the Web site – we have a version under Mozilla and then we have a GPL...; Tags: Applications, Database Management, General, Implementations, Legal, management, Software Licensing, Strategy; Blog posts 2007-07-06
Open source security arrives with Untangle: A few months after launching this blog I asked why there was no open source security.Now there is. Untangle has released its network gateway under GPVv2. CEO (and blogger) Bob Walters compares his product to SONICwall and Watchguard, saying "we'll sell services and premium products on top of it."Load the software...; Tags: Security, resellers, mass market, GPL, General, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-05
Zend Framework hits 1.0 milestone: Just in time for Independence Day the Zend Framework for PHP has hit its 1.0.0 milestone and is available for download.Zend uses the OSI-approved New BSD license.Zend Technologies gave credit to 230 community developers, including Google and IBM, releasing the framework for Web 2.0 application development less than two years after...; Tags: Google, Distributions, Development, BSD, Applications, IBM, Implementations, Internet; Blog posts 2007-07-03