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Sourcelabs updates the open source support process

SourceLabs' Continuous Support System announcement is leveraging the entire open source community to help big outfits deal with support issues. (Image from the OpenGroup, advertising a competition for Voice Profile for Internet Mail software.) CEO Byron Sebastian and co-founder Cornelius Willis told me it's an Early Warning Radar that will...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2006-06-28

SourceLabs automates open-source support

SourceLabs automates open-source supportThe open source eco-system is growing. This is important.The support will be better than Microsoft. Or should we say this will force Microsoft to really support their products.

Tags: SourceLabs, open source

Discussion threads 2006-06-28

IT Matters Audio Interview: SourceLabs founder Byron Sebastian

Two years ago in 2004, with no clear idea of what he was going to do next, Byron Sebastian left Java server specialist BEA Systems. Then, after consulting with friends and trusted associates, he formed SourceLabs. At first blush, SourceLabs looks a bit like SpikeSource headed by Kim Polese....

Tags: Sebastian, SourceLabs

Blog posts 2006-03-15

SourceLabs sees green in grassroots Java

SourceLabs sees green in grassroots JavaOutstandingAs an MCSD, my career is firmly entrenched in Microsoft technologies. Microsoft technologies tend to follow cycles of stagnation followed by rapid advancement. .NET would never have happened if not for Java, so I'm really thankful anytime another development platform pushes the envelope....

Tags: Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Java, Sash, SourceLabs, Microsoft Technology

Discussion threads 2005-08-02

Sourcelabs acquires Brand Perens

Sourcelabs acquires Brand PerensJust ask BruceWhy not ask him to write a column for ZDNet? He's done it before . . .I personally hold Bruce Perens in the highest regard. He's an excellent example of walking the walk and talking the talk of Open Source.meanwhile, at perensoft.comBruce apparently bought the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), brand, SourceLabs, Bruce Perens, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2005-06-10

Sourcelabs acquires Brand Perens

Bruce Perens has a new job. The founder of OSI, the Open Source Luminary he even has his own Wikipedia page is now Vice President of Developer Relations and Policy for SourceLabs in Seattle. Here is how he explained the job to me via e-mail:Sourcelabs' job is to be the...

Tags: Bruce Perens, SourceLabs

Blog posts 2005-06-10

Perens joins start-up SourceLabs

Perens joins start-up SourceLabsI would also like to see Bruce continue his work with UserLinux.Actually, maybe SourceLabs could offer a certified version of UserLinux with maintenance and patching, either server or desktop.Ah, Bruce as a PR machine...Buwhahahaha, the man sold his soul in the worst possible way, he's going to...

Tags: Public relations, open source, UserLinux, SourceLabs

Discussion threads 2005-06-08

Open source bundling

Open source bundling is the new trend. Martin Lamonica's story yesterday about SourceLabs describes one such bundles. Most are aimed at businesses. Many, like the SourceLabs bundle, are AMP Stacks, with the Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting tools. The idea is for a company to give away...

Tags: tool, open source

Blog posts 2005-03-31

The Dell of open-source software?

Former Microsoft senior vice president Brad Silverberg and some ex-BEA executives are teaming up to launch an open-source company that aims to become the Dell of the software industry. With $3.5 million seed capital from Silverberg's VC fund Ignition Partners and Index Ventures, the new company-called SourceLabs--will certify, test and distribute...

Tags: SourceLabs

Blog posts 2004-09-28

Additional Resources

Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA

Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...

Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition

As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.Red...

Tags: database, datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, HP, IBM, IT Management, JBoss, Linux, management, Microsoft, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Open-source firm SourceLabs bags $7 million

Open-source firm SourceLabs bags $7 millionCoolFLOSS is expanding! Sweet.http://one.revver.com/watch/77155/format/flv/affiliate/23672Competing With Oracle; The outsourcing of DBAs.The editor of SQL Server Magazine confirmed in a pannel discussion yesterday in Bellevue Washington that the future of DBAs was in being outsourced. To remain in the DBA field it was going to be necessary...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, FLOSS, Microsoft SQL Server, database, outsourcing, Oracle Corp., open source, server, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-26

AlwaysOn: Open source and patent trolls

AlwaysOn: Open source and patent trollsWhat else would a bunch of open source hacks say?"Bruce Perens, vice president of policy at SourceLabs, said patent issues are the Achilles heel of open source."Translated, Bruce can't just take someone elses work and copy it. Gee, what else would you expect...

Tags: open source, patent troll, software, software community, AlwaysOn

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

AlwaysOn: Open source and patent trolls

Speaking at a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2006 addressing the question of whether all software, or even hardware, will go open source, MySQL CEO Marten Mickos said: "There is no technical argument for keeping code closed. In five or ten years there will be a way to make...

Tags: Marten Mickos, open source

Blog posts 2006-07-26

No one said intellectual property was dead

Brad Silverberg has been away from Microsoft for seven years.But he still knows how to hit a straw man. His straw man today is that "IP is dead" because of open source. He builds this straw man in a News.Com commentary published this morning. Then, as he knocks down this...

Tags: open source, Brad Silverberg, straw man

Blog posts 2006-07-19

More wag the dog: Mobile databases not exactly free

One of the reasons I was finally inspired to finish that JavaDB piece I just wrote after starting the homework for it in January was because a ZDNet reader recently contacted me regarding a two year old piece I wrote that asked whether or not Sybase and iAnywhere were...

Tags: iAnywhere Solutions Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-01

BEA exec makes some JavaOne predictions

BEA Workshop Business Unit veep Bill Roth takes a long walk down JavaOne memory lane (describing every year of the event since 1996). Feigning to pull no punches BEA is a sponsor of JavaOne, Roth tries to capture the essence of each year's event with catchy headlines like Mobile...

Tags: Java, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-28

Don't cry for me oh mySQL (the truth is Oracle can't have you)

Bruce Perens now a VP with Sourcelabs has blogged a sharp little analysis of Oracle's buying spree whose short form might be Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy."Or we can go all Madonna on Larry Ellison's troops and sing from the top of the balcony:"Don't cry for me, oh...

Tags: Bruce Perens, Oracle Corp., MySQL

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Open-source firm SourceLabs partners with Oracle

Open-source firm SourceLabs partners with OracleYes there is work for Java Coders in SeattleContrary to the myth, Seattle and Washington State do turn out coders oriented to the "other than Microsoft way" of doing business. While the programs at Western Washington University and the state Department of Information Systems, may...

Tags: SourceLabs partners, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks

One of the common criticisms of deploying open source components and emerging stacks is that they are disjointed, hard to integrate, and lack a common management control capability. Today's open source server components amount to a helter-skelter pile of autonomous bricks, and the already overtaxed corporate IT staff is left...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2005-09-02