Open Source Software Up the Stack

NOTE: The following is a guest post from Anthony Gold of the Open Solutions Alliance: After 24 years of working for one, and only one, company, I've made the decision to leave Unisys to devote my full efforts to the... Read More..

Some technical editor at the BBC has been snookered three ways by Scott McNealy of Sun (JAVA) in this January 21 "news" story. The open source blogoblatherers in European Union are multiplying the effect. First, there's the sentence in the... Read More..

Download file Back in November 2007, I posted on the announcement that XAware had begun an open source project and was leading a trend in terms of making industry-centric open source software (OSS) more available. The post was based... Read More..

Download file Back in February, I posted on an interesting phone conversation I had have with Larry Alston, then the vice president and general manager of Open Source at IONA. Now Larry has that same title at Progress following... Read More..

Download file This is one in a series of podcasts that began with meets and greets, and phone meetings that came out of the Red Hat Summit, which was held in Boston in June 2008. Other of these podcasts... Read More..

Astute observers of U.S. presidential elections know that at 12:01 am on the first Tuesday of November in every leap year, a small group gathers at the Balsams Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH, a few miles south of the... Read More..

Download file I must admit that the only roundhouse I've ever been in or near was at a restaurant somewhere up on the Illinois/Wisconsin border. But I couldn't resist talking to a company named Engine Yard. The company is... Read More..

I follow my fellow ebizQ open source blogger Alex Fletcher, as I hope you do, and I very rarely disagree with him. But I think his take on the French having a big lead on (North) America in open source... Read More..

Download file At the Red Hat Summit, which was held in Boston in June 2008, I came across Zmanda. It’s based on an open source project called Amanda building backup and recovery software. And at that time, Zmanda had... Read More..

Download file Back in December 2007, I posted on the Jitterbit Trading Post in the context of the wider movement in open source software (OSS) to make OSS more available and more interoperable. That post back in December was... Read More..