Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Microsoft forces hard questions on open source
- A Microsoft spokesperson "confirmed it has no immediate plans to sue" over patents. In a statement mailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed it would not litigate for now.No immediate plans. For now.Open source is getting played.Microsoft is holding a sword over the head of all open source users, and all...
- Tags: Development, Enterprise Policy, General, Legal, Linux, management, mass market, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Gartner denies Sugar some love
- The freedom to modify code is as important as any other freedom offered by open source, according to a new note from Gartner Group.In a thinly veiled attack on SugarCRM and its "attribution license," Brian Prentice and Mark Driver advised clients to find their own definition of open source and...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, Database Management, BSD, Applications, General, GPL, management, Software Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- SCO bankruptcy called imminent
- Groklaw reports, quoting documents filed by Novell, that SCOs bankruptcy is "inevitable" and "imminent."Novell was replying PDF to SCOs opposition to its motion for summary judgement, which could end the case. Pamela Jones of Groklaw also says the documents hint Microsoft and Sun were actually buying SCOSource licenses, and that...
- Tags: General, Linux, Software Licensing, Enterprise Policy, Legal, Patents, Microsoft, management, Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Linux war over was most read story on open source blog
- The most read story on the open source blog this year was last months link to an IBM-sponsored study with the provocative headline The War is Over and Linux Won.The evidence was a study, sent by our SOA expert Joe McKendrick, indicating that most enterprise managers plan to increase their...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, blog, open source
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Linux management was 2nd most-read item of 2006 at open source blog
- My February piece on a survey claiming Linux is no tougher to manage than Windows was the 2nd most read item on this blog in 2006.The survey of 200 managers was sponsored by Levanta, which produces a Linux-based change management product. The item drew 7 trackbacks and numerous comments, concluding...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Linux, LINUX IS, blog
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Finnish mySQL support was 3rd most-read story of 2006 on open source blog
- My April piece on Solid Information Technology, putting its storage engine for mySQL under the GPL, was the 3rd most-read story of 2006 on this blog.My story emphasized that both Solid and mySQL originated in Finland, but your comments and further research showed that the real question is whether Solids...
- Tags: Databases, Storage, blog, MySQL, database, open source
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Reputation vs. marketing in open source
- One of the big stories for 2007 is going to be the battle between marketing and reputation. (This guy is pure marketing, and thus has no role in what follows.)Traditionally open source gets by on reputation. Your credibility, your openness, your commitment to open source values, help determine your standing...
- Tags: open source, marketing, management, telecom, publishing, mass market, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Do stacks solve the lock-in problem?
- One reason open source has proven so powerful an enterprise trend this year is that it promises to eliminate the lock-in problem. (Illustration from PHP.Net.)Lock-in occurs when you discover it would be more expensive to dump your IT garbage than keep throwing good money after bad. Lock-in happens whenever a...
- Tags: management, middleware, Distributions, Linux Server OS, Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Linux, Development, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Trust is key in open source
- The key to making an open source business model work lies is one word. Trust. (Image from Paul English.) Trust is a two-way street. Vendors have to trust that their community is giving them an honest shot at profit. The community must trust that the vendor is going to stay...
- Tags: open source, management, Development, Software Licensing, Applications, General, Legal, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
Additional Resources
- The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA
- Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...
- Tags: Web, Business, SOA, Organization, WOA, WOA Story, REST, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Video: Adobe unveils 'Project Genesis'
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthias Zeller, product manager at Adobe, demonstrates a prototype of the enterprise desktop client called "Project Genesis." The new software allows business users to create custom workspaces by combining and sharing applications, video, Web sites, and office documents. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer.
"See how Intel is consolidating down to 8 global data center hubs through the use of consolidation, virtualization and standardization. The initiative is expected to save Intel $1.8B by project completion.
