November 2007 Archives

Earlier this month Red Hat said that it plans to "own" 50% of the server market by 2015. It appears from looking at almost two years of IDC data on the overall server market (the latest set of which was... Read More..

Download file In a recent podcast, I talk about some of the formative thinking underlying the modern-era open source software (OSS) culture. I mentioned the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" writings and my analogy that software development in the OSS... Read More..

Groundwork Open Source is all over the news this month but when I look for a trend line in the press releases it comes back to their strategy of offerring large-enterprise functionality with small/medium enterprise (SME) terms and conditions. That... Read More..

This is just a time out to say Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. readers. The U.S. version of this worldwide tradition is based on events that occured almost 400 years ago here on Cape Cod. Some interesting sidelights to the story... Read More..

The list of former closed-source software companies "going open source" gets longer and longer and I'm beginning see a couple of trends. • First, as I said in writing about Volantis recently, OSS is no longer just a marketing strategy... Read More..

I read recently that Volantis Systems, a half-decade-old supplier of content management software specific to mobile devices, was releasing some of its most important software under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3). That seemed interesting because my... Read More..

Recently, I did a feature article about the OSS movement's effect on the business intelligence (BI) market. I came across this analysis of a May/June survey (free but registration required) fielded by Actuate, a BI vendor, on the adoption of... Read More..

I had an interesting conversation this week with Josep Mitja, the chief operating officer of a small but growing ERP company—Openbravo—of Pamplona, Spain. That’s right, Pamplona as in Hemingway and “The Sun Also Rises.” I am not sure if the... Read More..

Download file October's Service Oriented Architecture in Action virtual tradeshow here on ebizQ.net, at which I spoke, got me to thinking. About how SOA and open source software (OSS) fit together. One thing is critical to the thinking; SOA... Read More..

Following up on the initial Red Hat Enteprise Linux (RHEL) 5 announcement in March 2007, Red Hat filled out its stack strategy on November 7. The company extended the previously anticipated release of RHEL 5.1 to a concept called Linux... Read More..

Attention all open source software (OSS) content management systems (CMS) and enterprise content management (ECM) software organizations: I am researching the next in a series of open-source-software (OSS)-related Research Reports for ebizQ. Previous reports have covered ESBs and business intelligence... Read More..

The (U.S.) Federal Open Source Alliance, a joint effort of HP, Red Hat and Intel, have conducted and released survey results from what they call the “Federal Open Source Referendum” study. It’s based on 218 responses and was conducted online.... Read More..

The Apache Struts group has announced that Struts 2.0.11 is a "General Availability" release, which is the highest quality grade of Apache Softwre Foundation (ASF) open source software (OSS) release. But don’t make the mistake I made and think that... Read More..