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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

Additional Resources

Where Worlds Collide - and then there's Sharepoint

I'm at the Open Source Business Conference where Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Robert Youngjohns, President, Microsoft North America and Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President, Open Source and Linux, IBM Corporation have just keynoted. This is my third OSBC, a conference primarily framed...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Budgeting Reality, Business Goal, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Microsoft: Economy putting a damper on migrations to and from open source

Due to the downturn in the economy, many business users are putting the kibosh on migrations to or from open source. That's one of Microsoft's findings from its own customer research upon which its execs plan to expound during this week's Open Source Business Conference OSBC. by Mary Jo...

Tags: Migration, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-03-24

OIN: Microsoft lawsuit won't slow Linux's lead in mobile market

Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom is aimed at Linux but it won't deter the open source operating system's success in the mobile device market, said Open Invention Network's CEO. Open Invention Network CEO Keith Bergelt doesn't buy Microsoft's contention that the lawsuit, filed last week, is not targeting...

Tags: Lawsuit, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-02

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