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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Open source value in corporate blogs
- Blogging itself is 10 and so technically is corporate blogging, since Dave Winer right was running Userland Software when he launched Scripting News in 1997.Enough time has now gone by to draw some conclusions, about the value such blogs may have and who should be doing them.The best corporate blogs, like...
- Tags: management, General, Enterprise Policy, content, Blogroll
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- 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
- 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
- How will open source do in a talent-short age?
- We're not partying like it's 1999, but a Deloitte survey of CEOs finds that there is a growing shortage of technology talent, and some companies are trying to accommodate programmers' needs again, rather than try to squeeze them into penguin suits.How will open source do in this new environment? Very...
- Tags: Strategy, management, General, Enterprise Policy, Development, business models
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- BBC takes political hits for rejecting open source
- The BBC wants to put its shows on the Web, and made a deal with Microsoft for the technology required to do that. (That's the Tardis, from Dr. Who, one of many fine BBC programs.)This has the BBC in political hot water. Boingboing says it's a DRM issue, but the country's Open...
- Tags: video, Microsoft, mass market, Legal, Internet, Implementations, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Moore's second law proves need for open source
- Everyone knows Moore's Law, the idea that chip complexity can double every year or two.Fewer acknowledge Moore's Second Law, which is that development costs rise alongside this complexity.Something like that exists in software, and this has made open source a vital ingredient in innovation.Take Eclipse Europa, which is due out...
- Tags: Strategy, Infrastructure, Implementations, General, Enterprise Policy, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Distance makes the switch go quicker
- Which is a better sign of open source progress: Microsoft is changing Vista, based on a Google complaint. A major British retail chain switches to RedHat Linux.I think it's the latter. Because in all our talk about desktop Linux' market share, we're focusing on the wrong people.While most reporters, and most commenters,...
- Tags: resellers, marketing, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, Development, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Case studies in an open source world
- The folks at Liferay gave me a singular honor yesterday.They put me in touch with Ron Cash.Cash is one of the heroes. As Tim Duncan is to a sportswriter, or Hillary Clinton is to a political writer, so folks like Cash are to me. He manages computer systems for Colorado state government, specifically for the...
- Tags: Applications, Development, Enterprise Policy, General, Implementations, Infrastructure, management
- Blog posts 2007-06-16
- How far can open source CRM get?
- News that CentricCRM is getting a capital infusion from Intel Capital leads again to the inevitable question, how far can open source get in the CRM market?It's a tough road. Customer Relationship Management is more than mission-critical. The title describes your business right there.So there are big bucks involved, as...
- Tags: Database Management, Applications, Development, Enterprise Policy, Infrastructure, management, Oracle, Software as a Service, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Is Zenoss ambition justified?
- Zenoss has big ambitions for Zenoss Core 2.0, its open source management product.The freely-available new version now available in a hardware version as well, will lower the cost of management by over 80% compared to high-end tools from 'The Big Four' of HP, IBM, CA and, BMC.Sure, it costs 80%...
- Tags: support, Network Administration, management, Infrastructure, Hardware, General, Enterprise Policy, business models, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Doubt no more than mySQL is enterprise class
- One of the first topics I covered extensively here was the question of mySQL being enterprise-class.The open source database based in Finland started from nothing, and the argument against it has always been that it lacks the features and functionality enterprises need, that it's three, or two, or at least...
- Tags: Strategy, management, Implementations, GPL, Enterprise Policy, Development, Database Management, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Black Duck world tour hits issue turbulence
- Since celebrating the third anniversary of his flagship protexIP last month Black Duck Software CEO Doug Levin has been on the road a lot.He moderated an OSBC panel with Microsoft just as Novell was preparing to release details of its deal with the company. Then he flew to Russia where...
- Tags: Strategy, Software as a Service, Microsoft, GPL, Events, Enterprise Policy, Development, business models
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- The era of big software is over
- When Bill Clinton said a decade ago that "the era of big government is over," it turns out he was a big premature.But now with Web 2.0, SOA and web services, it may be true that "the era of big software is over."Bill St. Arnaud (right, from his blog) meditated...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, General, Enterprise Policy, Development, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Xandros deal is Microsoft water torture strategy
- Long-time readers of this blog may remember how two years ago I sat down to lunch with Marc Fleury, then running JBoss.Fleury was celebrating because he'd signed a re-sale agreement with Microsoft. The deal was superior to one IBM offered, he told me, in that it did not interfere with his...
- Tags: Strategy, resellers, Patents, Microsoft, management, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, Legal, Enterprise Policy, Distributions
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- aQuantive is not a Microsoft open source play
- Writer Rodney Gedda at Computerworld writes that aQuantive, the online ad agency Microsoft is buying for $6 billion, is an open source play.The reason? Many aQuantive units, including AvenueA Razorfish and Atlas, make extensive use of open source software, including mySQL, Linux, and Apache.If you use open source, are you...
- Tags: Applications, Development, Enterprise Policy, General, Infrastructure, mergers &, acquisitions, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
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