http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/ Dennis Byron’s blog on open source software: A longtime market research analyst follows what “the movement� means to business integration—in applications, infrastructure, as services, as architecture and as functionality. en Copyright 2011 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:02:21 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NOTE: The following is a guest post from Anthony Gold of the Open Solutions Alliance: After 24 years of working for one, and only one, company, I've made the decision to leave Unisys to devote my full efforts to the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2009/03/open_source_viewpoint_why_i_jo.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2009/03/open_source_viewpoint_why_i_jo.php OSS Business Issue Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:02:21 -0500 dennisb Some technical editor at the BBC has been snookered three ways by Scott McNealy of Sun (JAVA) in this January 21 "news" story. The open source blogoblatherers in European Union are multiplying the effect. First, there's the sentence in the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2009/01/bbc_buys_into_sun_spin_on_open.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2009/01/bbc_buys_into_sun_spin_on_open.php OSS Business Issue Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:49:48 -0500 dennisb Download file Back in November 2007, I posted on the announcement that XAware had begun an open source project and was leading a trend in terms of making industry-centric open source software (OSS) more available. The post was based... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_bill_miller_xaware.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_bill_miller_xaware.php Podcast Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:13:03 -0500 dennisb Download file Back in February, I posted on an interesting phone conversation I had have with Larry Alston, then the vice president and general manager of Open Source at IONA. Now Larry has that same title at Progress following... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_larry_alston_of_ion.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_larry_alston_of_ion.php Podcast Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:40:26 -0500 dennisb Download file This is one in a series of podcasts that began with meets and greets, and phone meetings that came out of the Red Hat Summit, which was held in Boston in June 2008. Other of these podcasts... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_marc_bellefleur_at.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/10/talking_to_marc_bellefleur_at.php Podcast Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:19:30 -0500 dennisb Astute observers of U.S. presidential elections know that at 12:01 am on the first Tuesday of November in every leap year, a small group gathers at the Balsams Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH, a few miles south of the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/openlogic_open_source_census_v.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/openlogic_open_source_census_v.php OSS Business Issue Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:57:04 -0500 dennisb Download file I must admit that the only roundhouse I've ever been in or near was at a restaurant somewhere up on the Illinois/Wisconsin border. But I couldn't resist talking to a company named Engine Yard. The company is... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_tom_morini_of.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_tom_morini_of.php Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:23:22 -0500 dennisb I follow my fellow ebizQ open source blogger Alex Fletcher, as I hope you do, and I very rarely disagree with him. But I think his take on the French having a big lead on (North) America in open source... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/maybe_wine_and_cheese_but_no_f_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/maybe_wine_and_cheese_but_no_f_1.php OSS Culture Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:27:41 -0500 dennisb Download file At the Red Hat Summit, which was held in Boston in June 2008, I came across Zmanda. It’s based on an open source project called Amanda building backup and recovery software. And at that time, Zmanda had... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_chander_kant_of_zma.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_chander_kant_of_zma.php Podcast Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:45:24 -0500 dennisb Download file Back in December 2007, I posted on the Jitterbit Trading Post in the context of the wider movement in open source software (OSS) to make OSS more available and more interoperable. That post back in December was... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_of_jitterbit.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/talking_to_of_jitterbit.php Podcast Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:55:11 -0500 dennisb In the past, no one in information technology (IT) cared and few even asked if you were liberal or conservative (Labor or Tory, Democrat or Republican, etc.), what country’s passport you carried, what religion you professed (including none), and what... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/open_source_and_it_are_no_plac.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/09/open_source_and_it_are_no_plac.php OSS Culture Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:09:44 -0500 dennisb As part of the August 20, 2008 Open Source Software (OSS) Roundtable on ebizQ, we asked attendees the following question: "How important are the quantity of solutions in a decision by your company to use open source?" The poll was... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/and_the_open_source_survey_say.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/and_the_open_source_survey_say.php OSS Culture Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:30:28 -0500 dennisb Download file Back in March I met with Todd Barr formerly of Red Hat and at that time starting his new position at the Austin-based Ruby/Ruby on Rails-based venture called FiveRuns. That was my introduction to Ruby and its... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/post_4.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/post_4.php Podcast Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:46:34 -0500 dennisb I tried to avoid posting about this giving that the open source blogsphere has gone ga-ga over it. This and it refers to the the August 14, 2008 ruling in the Northern District of California federal court in the U.S.... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/open_source_commentary_over_li.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/open_source_commentary_over_li.php OSS Business Issue Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:20:22 -0500 dennisb In a recent post, I said the open source software (OSS) community needs to go back to basics because the “us vs. them� thing has become so tiring. But what are the basics the OSS community needs to get back... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/getting_back_to_basics_in_soft.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/open_source/2008/08/getting_back_to_basics_in_soft.php OSS Culture Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:53 -0500 dennisb