February 2008 Archives

I live on Cape Cod and spent so much time with an airline seat strapped to my back for 30 years that I feel no strong reason to leave. But when I do, one of my favorite places to visit... Read More..

Like New England weather, if you don't see what you expect, wait a minute. When I was surveying for business process management (BPM) software with an open source software (OSS) development model and OSS Ts&Cs back in December 2007, efforts... Read More..

Here's a breath of sensibility in the midst of the open source software (OSS) movement's explosion of Microbashing on the blogosphere beginning February 21. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted February 24 in the Boston Globe as follows: "One of the argument... Read More..

Over at Research 2.0 (see link at right), I've analyzed the big-picture on Microsoft's open-source interoperability "principles" announcement of February 21. Despite the words open source in the press release, the announcement was really about Microsoft's long-term strategy to move... Read More..

I spoke with Mike Bates, CEO of HotWax Media, this week, following up on research I did recently on his IT-service-provider company and the entire open source ERP market. A summary of the research appears in a recent ebizQ article... Read More..

Download file In a recent blog I introduced Exist Global and its chairman Winston Damarillo. The news was that he was combining Exist Global, a software engineering services firm headquartered in the Philippines, with DevZuz, a developer of delivery... Read More..

Long ago and far away in the infancy of the Internet, research I was doing at the time for McGraw-Hill's Datapro led me to start using the mantra: "Functionality rules!" It probably was a play-on of a saying from some... Read More..

On Feb 13, Red Hat announced it wanted to "own" 50% of middleware deployments by 2015. On February 14, Red Hat put some meat on that lofty goal by formally announcing the previously pre-announced JBoss SOA platform and three new... Read More..

Bruce Perens, one of the thought leaders of the open source software (OSS) movement via his actions in founding the Open Source Initiative (OSI), has issued a State of Open Source message celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of... Read More..

As discussed here last month, one of the recent knocks against open source software (OSS) has been that it simply reverse engineers proprietary technologies at some time period after the proprietary technology becomes popular, in effect inhibiting further innovation and... Read More..

Attention all open source collaboration/groupware/office-suite software projects and organizations: I am researching the next in a series of OSS-related application research articles for ebizQ. Previous OSS application research has covered enterprise content management and business intelligence software. My next application... Read More..

The Microsoft (MSFT) acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO) doesn't really have much of an open source software (OSS) angle. But if you're an information-technology (IT) analyst, you gotta say something besides "Wow," right? OK, how about this: Microsoft will now own... Read More..