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Now Johnny CAN program, says Behlendorf

I had a chance to chat to Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf late last week. Now CTO of CollabNet, Behlendorf these days is in the business of helping companies co-ordinate their software development. But I was surprised and pleased to find the extent to which that increasingly means welcoming...

Tags: Brian Behlendorf, CollabNet Inc., Dan Bricklin, Excel Macros, mashup, Microsoft Excel, Phil Wainewright, spreadsheet, Web, Web service

Blog posts 2006-02-27

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Is open source losing its center?

For years the open source movement has found common ground at SourceFORGE. SourceFORGE not only hosted all the big open source projects. It gave them a common set of metrics with which to measure success. We have X thousand downloads. We have X hundred people in our community.But now this...

Tags: CollabNet Inc., SourceForge

Blog posts 2006-07-28

A graduated business model is a sweet spot

CollabNet is in an open source sweet spot.Its open source Subversion, a version control system for distributed development, is so vital that big customers are almost eager to grow into its paid Enterprise Edition. This is a solid, professional business model, not too far removed from what proprietary vendors...

Tags: Subversion

Blog posts 2006-04-17

Out source or open source?

On demand-applications aka SaaS and open-source software are both rising stars of the tech world at the moment. Is one of them going to end up being bigger than the other, or are they going to co-exist? When I talked with CollabNet CTO and Apache legend Brian Behlendorf...

Tags: CollabNet Inc., open source

Blog posts 2006-03-09

Live Clipboard: an idea whose time has come

After watching the demos of Live Clipboard, which Microsoft's Ray Ozzie introduced at ETech, many of us are wondering, like Dan Farber, "Why haven’t we thought of it before?" The reason is it's an idea that wasn't ready for anyone to think of before. Two things have changed...

Tags: web data, Ray Ozzie, Live Clipboard, Web

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Offshore development for SMBs

Big companies are often criticized for outsourcing development to India, Eastern Europe and other offshore locations. But would the howls of protest be muted if smaller companies could do the same? Losing your job to offshore coders is one thing. Getting a better job supervising a project that...

Tags: CollabNet Inc., small and medium business

Blog posts 2006-01-09

Microsoft to fix 'download warning' flaw

Microsoft to fix 'download warning' flawThis is what people have been saying for yearsWhy is it that everyone knows this yet no one has said it out loud in the media? So much for SP2 and all its security feautres.Download Firefox, direct link here!Get a secure browser now.http://searchwars.squarespace.com/free-software-downloads/You will also...

Tags: Patches, Microsoft Information Minister, security, Apache Software Foundation, patch management, Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2004-11-23

Java's baby steps toward open source

At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this week, the debate about open sourcing Java continued. I talked to Sun's chief technology evangelist Simon Phipps, who admitted that Java isn't open enough, and Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Web Server Project, who is pushing Sun to let Java go... 

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2004-07-30

Intriguing debate on open sourced Java

JavaOne wrapped up with a debate to try to settle the question of whether Sun should give Java to the open source community, and under what terms.  Rod Smith, IBM's vice president for emerging technology and author of the open letter urging Sun to open source Java, argued that the Java Community Process...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2004-07-01