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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What's the best defense for open source?
- The OSBC is in San Francisco this week, worrying over defending against Microsoft patent claims.Our own Ed Burnette was intrigued by hints in Jonathan Schwartz' blog this week that Sun Microsystems might help defend Ubuntu and Red Hat, if push came to shove.Interesting given that Sun isn't even a member...
- Tags: Applications, Distributions, documentation, Enterprise Policy, Events, Implementations, Legal, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy, Sun Microsystems
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- 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
- Survey says, open source becomes mission critical
- I have a natural skepticism when it comes to commissioned research. So take this with a grain of salt, despite its ring of truth.A Forrester survey for Unisys shows over half of large enterprises now use open source for mission critical operations. Four out of five (79%) use it in...
- Tags: support, marketing, Infrastructure, Implementations, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Chess is not Checkers
- The other night I went to sleep thinking about Gödels incompleteness theorem as a kind of juvenile twaddle: a quailing in the face of the infinite more appropriate to Mahler than Bach - and apparently got up somewhat later to celebrate of one of those mid night...
- Tags: Linux, General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Open source needs lobbyists
- A decade ago, when the Web had just been spun, the computer industry learned the hard way how it needed lobbyists to keep competition alive. (Why the movie? Read on.)Chief among these companies was Microsoft, which stepped up to the plate for the industry, hired lots of warm bodies (often...
- Tags: telecom, politics, Microsoft, marketing, Legal, Government, General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Can open source processes close doors to speech?
- Jimmy Wales and Tim O'Reilly have begun an interesting experiment.(Picture from TheAllINeed.)They want to create a bloggers code of conduct, through Wikia, aimed at drawing a line against abuse and flame wars.While they insist this is voluntary, in fact it can easily become mandatory, once blog hosts like Typepad and...
- Tags: politics, mass market, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
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