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- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at osbc
- Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....
- Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- 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
- 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
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- SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports
- Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Monitoring, Cell Phone, Beta, SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5.1, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu's ambitions in the corporate server space will be...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Early draft of Microsoft XAML now online
- An early draft of Microsoft's XAML specification has been brought online under its "open specification promise." This fulfills a promise made last week at OSBC. XAML stands roughly for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and enables the creation of object hierarchies for use online. The...
- Tags: XAML, Microsoft Corp., Open Specification Promise, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- 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
- Why we still hate Microsoft
- Call it the Clinton effect. I'm not trying to be political here. But what seems to upset most people about Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton for that matter, is this habit of parsing. Barack Obama is not a Muslim as far as I know....
- Tags: Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at osbc
- Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBCEnglish pleaseWhen something/someone gets notice it is told to quit what this writer means is "got noticed".Please can we have these items in English not some 3rd grader's perception of the languageRE: Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the...
- Tags: ISV, open source, open source ISV
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- News to know: MacBook Air hack; Zoho; Windows Search; Comcast
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases first public test build of Windows Search 4.0 Larry Dignan: MacBook Air falls in two minutes at PWN 2 OWN EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Comcast Corp., Apple MacBook, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- ProtoTest readying open source commercial alternative to IBM Rational, HP's Mercury tools
- One startup I bumped into at OSBC is quietly carving out a solid if not sexy open source niche -- in automated test tools. ProtoTest, a services provider in Centennial, Colo., plans to launch later this year its first commercial software product based on the open source...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Tool, IBM Corp., ProtoTest, Selenium, Selenium IDE, Productivity, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Despite a lot of brave talk at OSBC there is little doubt that open source is heading into its first recession. (If you want to explain a recession to your four-year old, here's one way.) During the last bust, what I call the dot-bomb,...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- 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
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully
- Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community -- but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how...
- Tags: Software, Brad Smith, IP, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?
- It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference OSBC on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...
- Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Open Source Business Conference
- Day 1 of OSBC 2008 at Palace Hotel in San Francisco by Paula Rooney
- Tags: news, OSBC kicks off, linux, open source, red hat
- Image galleries 2008-03-26
- Is open source anti-American?
- While Matt Asay and Paula Rooney chose the meat in Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst's remarks at OSBC, others chose to play the political game of gotcha. So, is open source anti-American? Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Microsoft partners with open source JasperSoft, Sourcesense
- Microsoft and JasperSoft are working together to ensure that Jasper's business intelligence software suite runs well on the latest editions of Windows and SQL Server. At the Open Source Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Microsoft told ZDNet that the open source BI software...
- Tags: JasperSoft, Partnership, ISV, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing – especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be...
- Tags: Desktop, Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux Server, Mobile, Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
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