July 2007 Archives

I cannot figure out if I should put this post under Open Source Software (OSS) Culture, OSS Business Issue or OSS Development Trend. I decided on culture because I think the two competing "non news stories" fall into the "it's... Read More..

I wrote last Thursday that I was following the blogging and reporting out of the OSCON open source software (OSS) conference waiting for some red meat in terms of Microhate or intra-movement warfare between the OSS left and right wings... Read More..

I have been watching OSCON blogging this week for some red meat, some Microhate, some internecine rivalry between the left and the right of the open source software (OSS) movement, anything to overcome the summer slowdown and get a little... Read More..

If you're into numbers, take a look at a couple of interesting and not necessarily conflicting statistics about open source software (OSS) put into circulation in July: Linux up, Apache down. Among other very detailed findings, 10,000 Alfresco community members... Read More..

As Savio Rodgrigues points out over at Infoworld, traditional software--or at least traditional middleware--is not being replaced by open source software (OSS). Turning his points around, if you are basing IT infrastructure or any other type of business decisions on... Read More..

I had no sooner finished blogging about the need for better definitions of open source sotware (OSS), Web 2.0, SaaS, and other buzzwords when a link put me on to a couple of posts that talk about OSS as a... Read More..

There was a good debate last week at O'Reilly Radar about the implications of open source software (OSS) in the movement to Software as a Service (SaaS). Of course it included all the "we vs. them." "we invented Web 2.0,"... Read More..

If this is Tuesday, it must be time to write a Microsoft-GPL blog post. This debate is always a sure thing subject during the dog days of summer when nothing else of interest is happening. Last week, Microsoft put out... Read More..

Matt Asay, business development VP at content-management software/service provider Alfresco and prolific blogger about open source software (OSS), attacks the International Herald Tribune (IHT) in this recent post. Matt's reading something into this IHT article that I don't see and... Read More..

Construction- and architectural-industry analysts don’t spend a lot of time on hammers and saws; IT-industry analysts don’t spend a lot of time on integrated development environments and frameworks. Yet if you like to design and build physical things with wood... Read More..

Bob Walters, with more than 15 years of experience in security-software company executive management, joined two-year-old Metavize shortly before New Year's 2007. Since then he has revamped its business model. He has put more emphasis on software than hardware in... Read More..