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- Microsoft Project to get open source competition
- Projity, which has been selling its project management software in the form of Software as a Service SaaS, will launch an open source version at LinuxWorld next week, under the name OpenProj.CEO Marc O'Brien said download and community sites should be ready in time for the show, but that the company...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, marketing, Implementations, General, Events, Distributions, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Intel open source strategy starts to come together
- With the release of its Thread Building Blocks template as open source, Intel's open source strategy is starting to come together.It's about the value of standards, and where in a product ecosystem those standards live.TBB moves control of parallelism out of the operating system, out of Windows or Linux, and places...
- Tags: business models, Development, General, Hardware, Implementations, management, mass market, mobile, Strategy, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Dear Zonbu, think server
- Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...
- Tags: Database Management, business models, Applications, General, Hardware, Implementations, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, management, marketing, mass market, Network Administration, Software as a Service, Strategy, support, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- How big should the Linux kernel be?
- Great news. The Emulex Virtual Host Bus Adapter HBA driver is being made part of the Linux kernel.What this means is support for enterprise scale fiber connections is actually going to be inside the core of the operating system. Cool.It's just another indication of how robust Linux is becoming, thanks...
- Tags: Development, General, Implementations, Infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Linux, Linux Server OS, support, telecom
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Medsphere begin again
- Two years after throwing over its founders and making a public domain code base proprietary, Medsphere is seeking a new CEO and a new start with the open source movement."The community edition licenses are on the Web site â€" we have a version under Mozilla and then we have a GPL...
- Tags: Applications, Database Management, General, Implementations, Legal, management, Software Licensing, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Zend Framework hits 1.0 milestone
- Just in time for Independence Day the Zend Framework for PHP has hit its 1.0.0 milestone and is available for download.Zend uses the OSI-approved New BSD license.Zend Technologies gave credit to 230 community developers, including Google and IBM, releasing the framework for Web 2.0 application development less than two years after...
- Tags: Google, Distributions, Development, BSD, Applications, IBM, Implementations, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Eclipse delivers biggest update yet
- As important as operating systems and applications may be, the real key to software innovation lies in building better tools.Open source toolmaking is in the hands of the Eclipse Foundation, which has now delivered its biggest release yet, dubbed Europa. Some 21 projects were updated, with 17 million lines of...
- Tags: support, Infrastructure, Implementations, General, Distributions, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Most Presidential candidates use open source
- Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted.(Why is this fellow here? All will be revealed soon, grasshopper.)Karr's methodology was not rocket science. He used Netcraft. You can do it,...
- Tags: politics, Microsoft, mass market, management, Linux Server OS, Linux, Internet, Implementations, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- 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
- The telecomm revolution will not be televised
- Maria Bartiromo of CNBC ticked me off the other day.It was in her introduction to the NxtComm show in Chicago, the successor show to Supercomm. She breathlessly described how "the industry's heavyweights" were there to "decide on the future of telecommunications."But the future doesn't come from there anymore.The future is...
- Tags: wireless, VOIP, telecom, Strategy, Infrastructure, Implementations, Hardware, General, Development, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The consensus process and SOA
- I appreciated the comment-swarm around last week's piece on consensus. But I am afraid many missed the key word in the headline.The word is mysterious. The way in which consensus works is opaque, even while its results are highly transparent. This is in contrast to the conflict process, with its press...
- Tags: Network Standards/Protocols, Implementations, General, Enterprise Policy, Development, business models
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- 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
- Stuart Cohen tackling the vertical application stack
- Whatever happened to Stuart Cohen, former head of the OSDL, now part of the Linux Foundation?He sent out a press release today, and it seems hes launched an effort called the Collaborative Software Initiative CSI. The initials are cute, but the intent is to build open...
- Tags: resellers, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, Implementations, General, Development, business models
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Is VRM a solution in search of a problem?
- Uber-blogger Doc Searls is now at Harvard, working on something he calls Vendor Relationship Management, or VRM. (To the right, one of the most famous images in the blogosphere, Docs head, from his blog.)Customer relationship management CRM tools are supposed to help companies deal with the people who have bought...
- Tags: General, Applications, Database Management, mass market, Implementations, identity, Development
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?
- Heres a nice controversy to get your week started.While Microsoft slipped through its antitrust case in the U.S., the E.U.does consider it a monopolist, and thus subject to some form of regulation. Should that regulation include a requirement for full interoperability with key open source projects, like Higgins?Higgins is the...
- Tags: Applications, General, Government, identity, Implementations, Infrastructure, Legal, management, mass market, Microsoft, Patents
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
- Gary Edwards of the Open Document Foundation, a leading member of its technical committee, says Microsoft is playing proprietary games aimed at controlling XML file formats and preventing the Open Document Format from gaining a foothold. (Image from Centre-Linux.Org in France.)In a highly informative post to his Open Stack blog...
- Tags: Applications, General, Government, Implementations, Infrastructure, Microsoft, Network Standards/Protocols, Standards, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
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