March 2008 Archives

One of my recent posts was about a battle for the soul of open source. Perhaps related, there is also a battle in progress at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) web site but this battle is simply about the words,... Read More..

This Infoworld report on Red Hat CEO Whitehurst's speech on March 25 is potentially provocative to the say the least. The speech as reflected in InfoWorld illustrates that Whitehurst does not yet show much understanding of Red Hat's own industry,... Read More..

[NOTE: As a rule, most of my open source blog postings are intentionally pretty light. I strive to give you something between the People column of the daily newspaper and Entertainment Nightly when it comes to open source. If you... Read More..

If you follow my IT investment research blog (see the IT Investment Research button to the right and look for a March 17 post on Open Standards in Massachusetts), you see why it is important to compare what the blogosphere... Read More..

I met up with Jonathan Marsh of WSO2 last week; I introduced you to WSO2 in mid 2007 via a Talking to… interview with Paul Freemantle. Jonathan’s role is Director of Architecture for Mashup Technologies but he prefers to call... Read More..

I must admit I cannot figure out the European Union bureacracy (euracracy) well enough to nail down all the details but clearly the EU, via its Competition Commission, adminstrative organization, funded projects, parliament and other arms is doing everything it... Read More..

The blogosphere is buzzing about the high salaries OSS developers can demand. The buzz is based on stories that were kicked off by a recent press release from BlueWolf. BlueWolf is a New York City consulting company that "specializes in... Read More..

Download file In a recent guest editorial posted on ebizQ, the Apache Software Foundation gave its annual report. As you probably know, the Foundation is the formal organization put together in the late 1990s following the success of its... Read More..

Attention all open source software (OSS) projects and organizations: I am researching the next in a series of OSS-related application research articles for ebizQ. This month we are looking for open-source software and projects specific to an industry such as... Read More..

I met with Todd Barr March 5 to congratulate him on his new position at the Austin-based Ruby/Ruby on Rails-based venture called FiveRuns and to see if he's nailed down any plans yet. Personally, being based in Austin is a... Read More..

UPDATED 3/6/2008 to better explain why open source helps users if it turns out they don't like what Buytaert/Acquia does with it. Dries Buytaert is the creator and project lead of the popular Drupal open source content management software that... Read More..