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- IBM open source strategy becomes clearer
- With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy. Savio Rodriguez Rodrigues is the Infoworld blogger in question, and this is fair play because he is, in fact, an...
- Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., Savio, Websphere CE, OpenOffice, Blogging, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
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- Open source as the villain in its own story
- Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun's well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. After all, if the code is free and visible why should an enterprise customer write a check to its...
- Tags: Asset, Open Source, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
- Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source. This is an open source project which is owned or controlled by one company. Even though it may have a GPL license, you have no more power over it than a single voter in a political system....
- Tags: Blog, Definition, IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- What is an open source company really worth?
- The correct answer is whatever someone will pay for it. (This cute business shark lives at Hyde Valuations, an appraisal company in Idaho.) Certainly a home worth $500,000 last year is worth less now. Certainly a stock worth $100/share last week is worth less now. ...
- Tags: Stock, Investment, Open Source, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Mr. Martin tear down this wall
- Mr. Martin tear down this wallWill you get an OpenMoko device?Dana, while I agree with your request for openness, I wonder if you'll actually get an OpenMoko device. Or will you stick to your Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, etc.?I guess your point is that openness allows for choice. Choice...
- Tags: Construction, Cellular phones, Verizon Wireless, wall, OpenMoko
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
- Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?The FSF has never before been interested in money damagesThe history of the FSF and other supporters/users of the GNU GPL has been compliance, not money damages. Seeking money damages would simply open a can of worms given you then have to figure out the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., GPLv3, GPL, GPL V3, compliance, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
- Why SugarCRM made peace
- Why SugarCRM made peaceIPO more driven by revenue?Dana, I think that the public offering has more to do with Sugar's proprietary success than it's OSS cred. OSS cred is required to get a user base. But, a non-paying user base doesn't really appeal to Wall Street. I...
- Tags: SugarCRM, Sugar
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- What is the true value of open source?
- There are many ways to measure the value of open source. But no one measure gives the true picture.(A print of this hangs in my living room. Its presence here will be explained.)Savio Rodrigues recently measured it through venture capital returns. But with open source squeezing costs out of software,...
- Tags: business models, Events, General, Infrastructure, management, mass market, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- A sign of desperation from Adobe
- A sign of desperation from AdobeInteresting pieceI'll think this one over, maybe I'll come back later with a responseuh what?Not sure what you mean. Are you saying Adobe should continue to be open but for different reasons? Are you suggesting that from a single spokesperson's quote you can harness the...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft .NET, Adobe Systems Inc., desperation, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as FedoraOne more proof...... that open sopurce companies are selling software. The selling services idea has no more effect than changing the line items on the bill.Open source is an ideology, but it's also a method of development. As a...
- Tags: Java development tools, Tools & Techniques, Development tools, open source, JBoss, software, Fedora Project
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...
- Tags: Linux, Commercial, Licenses, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Exadel finds a different way to open source
- Exadel finds a different way to open sourceWell, since RedHat is open sourcing it, they have to play nice, or we canpay someone else to support it, and, we can be sure there will be many around the world contributing, and offering support.So, yes, RedHat does do a good job...
- Tags: Java development tools, Development tools, Middleware, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Exadel, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- The MVPs of Open Source
- The MVPs of Open SourceWhat open source tools does Amazon have?Sorry Dana, but what do you mean by "Amazon has a lot of neat new open source tools"?In reading that article linked to, it doesn't appear that Amazon has anything substantial to do with those tools mentioned (Nutch, Haddop, Powerset)....
- Tags: open source, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-15
- Open source is a sales model
- Open source is a sales modelKey point"While most open source firms look at open licenses as lowering their R&D costs,... [Yes, reduced R&D staff costs as a result of the generosity of people willing to replace employees at no cost.]... it's this lower sales cost Soward believes is the real...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales, open source, William Hurley, car company, Sean Hull
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Reputation vs. marketing in open source
- Reputation vs. marketing in open sourceA good example of open source reputationDotNetNukeNot what the SEC data shows for Red HatRed Hat spends 4.6% of their total revenue on advertising. IBM, Microsoft and Oracle spend 1.4%, 2.8% and 0.7% respectively. If we think that open source doesn't need advertising,...
- Tags: open source, Red Hat Inc., marketing
- Discussion threads 2006-12-06
- Java is the true test of open source innovation
- Java is the true test of open source innovationVery good points.Care to add a paragraph about the role of IBM, which has been waiting for a long time for the open-sourcing of Java?I thought TiVO was the testThat showed how a brand new technology could come to market thanks to...
- Tags: Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Java, TiVo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Open source and management disputes
- Open source and management disputes"He wasn't happy with the R&D investment...""... he was getting from home office."Yes, open source does have unique versions of ordinary problems. Two applicable characteristics of open source are reliance on reduced staff costs as a means to profitability and restrictions on profit as a...
- Tags: Java development tools, Development tools, Middleware, JBoss, Red Hat Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- The hybrid model in open source
- The hybrid model in open sourceThe most important question is which model will result in the best code inthe long run.People using the hybrid approach, force contributors to sign over rights for proprietary use to the primary developers, which means they also cannot incorporate existing code unless they track down...
- Tags: Application servers, open source, WAS CE, IBM WebSphere
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
- Vendor opacity and open source
- Vendor opacity and open sourceDon't think there is a linkDana, I'm not sure that there is a strong link between not taking Ballmer seriously and moving away from Microsoft. There are many Microsoft shops out there and the Novell/MSFT pact is of no consequence to them. There are...
- Tags: Novell Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Did Sun do right by Java?
- Did Sun do right by Java?The argument is over, as long as SUN does not use the trademark to doanything other than guarantee all virtual machines work the same. Sun still needs to play nice with the trademark.Nope, more reasons to help Apache HarmonyDana, I think that this decision by...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL Sun, open source Java SE, Apache Harmony, Java
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
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