September 2007 Archives

I have never believed that there were separate open source software (OSS) and non-OSS markets. But as good analyst and taxonomer of software markets, I was always happy to size one and forecast it for clients for a fee. As... Read More..

I said in my posting yesterday that I didn't understand Red Hat's (and FSFE/Samba's) exuberance over the European Union (EU) Court of First Instance's ruling against Microsoft. The EU CFI press release specifically said the EU Competitive Commission did not... Read More..

IBM has resurrected the old Lotus brand Symphony to launch its Sun OpenOffice-based open source office suite. Although termed an office suite and hyping collaboration on its own web site, neither Symphony nor OpenOffice has an email component the way... Read More..

A first-level European Union (EU) court today upheld the EU Competition Commission's 2004 findings that said that Microsoft had to take steps to increase interoperability between its Windows-based client operating software and other providers' server operating software (e.g., Sun's Solaris... Read More..

Listen to or download the 3:32 min. podcast below: Download file This podcast talks about Sun's business strategy relative to expanding its agreement with Microsoft. The PR came out on September 12 but the real motivation was explained by Sun... Read More..

In partnering with Red Hat and Alfresco, and building large applications for Endeca and the Chicago Public Radio (not Schools, corrected 9/17), the open source software (OSS) services supplier Optaros has been in the news a lot recently. So I... Read More..

Since Microsoft proposed in August that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) approve a couple of its "shared-source" licenses as "official" open source software (OSS) licenses, the OSI's "license-discuss" mailbox has been overflowing every morning. The wave of emails has been... Read More..

Somehow I suspect the open source software (OSS) community will not buy into a product beauty contest anyway but publishers can't help themselves. Sorry, boss!! Product beauty contests are "round-up stories" or special reports in trade publications and related web... Read More..

Attention all open source software (OSS) business intelligence software organizations: I am doing the next in a series of open-source-software (OSS)-related Research Reports for ebizQ. This one will focus on OSS business intelligence (BI) software and services, including software as... Read More..

I came across a blog post by Murat Aksu, VP of Marketing at Zenoss, recently entitled “Not your father’s Open Source Software.” It got me thinking that the open source software (OSS) market moves at lighting speed in the same... Read More..

There's a saying that goes something like "even if you like democracy and sausage, don't watch either of them being made." Anyone who is been following the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) process related to Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML)... Read More..

Listen to or download the 5:57 min. podcast below: Download file This podcast tells you how we have designed our coverage of open source software (OSS) here on ebizQ.net along with the philosophy behind that coverage. That is, we look... Read More..