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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
Is Zonbu the next revolution?: Zonbu right, a start-up from French entrepreneurs Gregoire Gentil Twingo and Alain Rossmann (EO, OpenWave), combines a cellphone business model with open source software to deliver a complete Linux-based PC for as little as $99 and $12.95/month.The box is pre-loaded with a host of open source freeware -- Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype,...; Tags: Software as a Service, Linux Desktop OS, Hardware, General, Strategy, Linux, business models, mass market; Blog posts 2007-07-24
Psst. Want to know everything on your network?: Having divested their proprietary wireless security tool, the folks at Network Chemistry are using the open source process to develop a universal network scanning and reporting system.What CTO Chris Waters calls Project Wishbone is based on RogueScanner, a scanning tool originally created to find viruses and other rogue programs.Now the GPL...; Tags: support, Strategy, Software as a Service, Infrastructure, Hardware, GPL, General, business models, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-23
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
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

Open source and the attention economy: With the continued growth of the open source economy we in the media find our job is to pay attention.This is not what's best for our financial health. I have found that most stories I write about small open source start-ups go unread and unremarked upon.On the other hand, all...; Tags: Applications, Events, General, marketing, Microsoft, Software as a Service, VOIP; Blog posts 2007-05-23
How Google Apps grows: Taken in isolation Google Apps is not that much. Its a Microsoft Office clone, delivered online, which you can rent instead of buy.But by placing it online, and through the miracle of open source, it can quickly become much more.Etelos is among those hoping to piggyback on Google Apps. A...; Tags: Software as a Service, mass market, Internet, marketing, Google, General, business models, Applications, Development; Blog posts 2007-04-17
Children of GPL: In all the hubbub over GPL Version 3, a lot of you may not know this is just one license that the Free Software Foundation manages. (The image stood at the top of Georg Greve's Brave Gnu World columns from 1999-2004.)They also manage the LGPL, or the Lesser GPL. A...; Tags: Software as a Service, Legal, General, FOSS, Software Licensing, GPL; Blog posts 2007-04-06
Adaptive Planning seeks profit in free hosted version: So free and open source software isnt good enough for your business? You want it hosted free, too? You got it. Adaptive Planning, an open source Business Performance Management company, is now offering free hosting.Adaptive Planning Express carries a GPL 2.0 license. CEO William Soward said the aim is to...; Tags: GPL, General, business models, Applications, Strategy, Software as a Service, resellers, marketing; Blog posts 2007-04-05
The Germans are coming, with open source and SaaS: A German Web host hopes to use the GPL to take over the U.S. market.1&1 Internet has grown mainly through acquisitions into Europe's largest Web hosting company. Not everyone likes it but it is also growing in the U.S. with a new center in Lenaxa, Kansas. The story is an agreement...; Tags: Strategy, business models, Software as a Service, General, Applications, Linux; Blog posts 2007-02-27

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BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case: In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...; Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace: Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...; Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Patent reform dead for 2008: The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...; Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
A robotic chef for your kitchen?: The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...; Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The newspaper's last stand: Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...; Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-15