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Open source is not all about the money

No matter what happens to Sun open source is not going away. Financially it may find its level to be lower than its boosters first thought, but there are many more ways to compute value other than the change in your pocket. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Dave Rosenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Identi.ca fires pure open source against Twitter

Micro-blogging is best at conventions, meetings and other gatherings. It's shared IM, instant texting, with channels created on-the-fly. With better mobile Internet devices -- iPhones and their competitors -- any public meeting can have organized chatter and background noise. Conclusions can be reached before people leave the room. by Dana...

Tags: Twitter, Dave Rosenberg, Micro-blogging, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-07

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Yes, vendors are vital to open source

Fellow ZDNet blogger Dana Blankenhorn asks the question, "Are vendors vital to open source?" No, not at all. Unless you want steady improvements to the software, timely security fixes, ISV and hardware support, and distribution methods that allow users to actually download or receive FOSS on physical media. Then they...

Tags: Vendor, F/OSS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-23

MuleSource CEO: Mule 2.0 will kick enterprise butt

MuleSource has launched a major upgrade of its open source Enterprise Service Bus software that offers a new Eclipse integrated development environment, easier configuration and stronger Spring integration. Mule 2.0 Community Edition was made available on April 1. The company’s commercial enterprise edition -- based on version...

Tags: MuleSource, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Web publishing, CMS, BI most hot for open source disruption, but ESB and security are not?

Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Security, JasperSoft, Web-publishing, Content Management System, KnowledgeTree, MuleSource, MuleSource 2.0 Community Edition, Open Source Security, 3D System, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Service Bus, Management, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-26

The next frontier for GPL Violations

UPDATE: A new post on the same topic is above. To date the work of GPLViolations has been fairly non-controversial. By going after vendors who violate the GPL by incorporating enhanced code into non-GPL products, Harold Welte & Co. have won a ton of...

Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-18

You can look but you better not touch

Microsoft tried to tiptoe onto the open source incline today by releasing the .Net Framework under what it calls the Microsoft Reference License. You may read the license language here, or just read this from guest analyst Mr. Bruce Springsteen:  I came home from work and I...

Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework, Analyst, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, .Net, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-03

MuleSource gets SaaS

MuleSource has put its Software as a Service play, MuleOnDemand, into beta. OpSource, a MuleSource customer, will run the infrastructure, MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg told ZDNet Open Source customers will be able to either run a Mule box or get "pure integration in the...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Marketing, MuleSource, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-01

MuleSource brings its ESB platform to the cloud

MuleSource is entering the on demand space with a hosted version of its open source enterprise service bus and integration platform. MuleOnDemand supports a multitude of APIs, frameworks and transports--such as Web Services, MQ Series, JMS, HTTP, REST, SOAP and email--for integrating systems with enterprise applications. ...

Tags: Enterprise Service Bus, Open Source, MuleSource, MuleOnDemand, MuleOnDemand Platform, MuleOnDemand Pricing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-17

More obvious misgivings about Microsoft and SOA

InfoWorld blogger and MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg has some thoughts on Microsoft and SOA in light of, and in advance of, the recent spate of BizTalk announcements and partnerships. Like myself, he takes exception to Microsoft's claims of SOA support and affinity. Here are some excerpts from...

Tags: Microsoft .NET, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft Office

Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft OfficeOpenOffice.org MacThis sheds some light on why suddenly Sun has fired up much more active development of OpenOffice for Mac in spite of what is being done and the huge lead the NeoOffice project has.Lip stick doesn't change the fact its a pig.Sorry,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Media literacy in a media saturated world

The question of what becomes of journalism in the age of mass media, in which anyone with an Internet connection can be their own publisher and reach a potential audience of billions with a single click was the subject of a conversation at a cybersalon hosted by Sylvia Paull near...

Tags: Blogging, General, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform

Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...

Tags: Mule, MuleSource

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Blogger learns how to get the money

With $4 million in VC funding from Hummer Winblad and Morgenthaler Ventures Mule is now Mule.Dave Rosenberg, who blogs about open source at Infoworld, is the CEO of the new venture, and says he learned a lot of things along the way to this day they dont teach you in...

Tags: Rosenberg

Blog posts 2006-10-02

Desktop Linux opportunity is thick in the BRICK

Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea. BRICK. That is where desktop Linux opportunities are most pronounced, according to Dave Rosenberg, principal analyst at OSDL and the man who led a survey of the field last fall. "We’re so close in a lot of ways," to Linux gaining major market share, Rosenberg...

Tags: Linux, desktop Linux, Brick

Blog posts 2006-04-24

Red Hat to buy JBOSS tomorrow?

Infoworld's Dave Rosenberg:...it's not Novell that's going to buy JBoss, but the other big Linux guys, RedHat. Apparently the deal will be announced tomorrow April 10. Keep in mind we have been wrong before, but give us the benefit of the doubt on this one.If this is true, it's good...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., JBoss

Blog posts 2006-04-09

Something New

I learned something tonight at Sylvia Paull's CyberSalon, covered elsewhere by Scott Rosenberg. What I didn't learn is anything useful about the endless debate about blogojournalism. Finding myself on a panel about this ancient and intensely simple "argument" is something I would only do for Sylvia, whose committment to reviving...

Tags: Lisa, Sylvia Paull

Blog posts 2006-03-20

Who's afraid of the big bad Ross (Perot)?

Dave Rosenberg is quite worried that H. Ross Perot (you remember him, at right) is backing a fund that will try and buy-up "undervalued" patent portfolios and then try to make money off them.Patent arbitrage has been around for some time. It can be one of the more brackish areas...

Tags: H. Ross Perot, Perot, Ocean Tomo

Blog posts 2005-09-09

OpenOffice: Did Microsoft and Sun just put open source profiteers on notice?

Last week, ZDNet contributing editor Dave Rosenberg asked if Sun may have sold out OpenOffice.org -- one of the open source projects that Sun stewards -- when a recently disclosed portion of the company's sweeping agreement with Microsoft revealed that Sun would not intervene should Microsoft choose to sue OpenOffice...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source

Blog posts 2004-09-21