August
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Aug 30, 2010
Google makes a risky play for the gallery
The Great Google is wearing sackcloth and ashes this week, whipping up public resentment against legal rival Oracle by staying away from JavaOne, and quietly encouraging sales of James Gosling’s nifty anti-Oracle t-shirts read more...
Dell should become an open source rabbi
Dell is making nice-nice with open source as it seeks a way to compete with a headless HP. It seems a wise choice. (How did Rabbi Moshe Feinstein get from Wikipedia to here? All will be explained.)The media focus is currently on 3Par, for which HP has bid $30/share. Dell, which had an offer accepted at $27/share, says it is considering its next move. ($31, anyone, asks our Larry Dignan.) read more...
Aug 27, 2010
Firefox 4 beta 4 out today, feature complete beta 6 slated for Sept 10
The Mozilla team released the fourth beta of Firefox 4 today but don’t expect feature freeze code until September. read more...
Of course Microsoft loves open source
A statement from Microsoft’s general manager of interoperability and XML architecture, Jean Paoli (right), has the snark knives out this morning.What he said was, “We love open source.” What’s next, cats and dogs living together? read more...
Aug 25, 2010
We are all an open book
Eric Schmidt made some headlines last week when he predicted people will change their names in order to avoid their online past. Let’s cut the man some slack. He was working before the Web was spun. read more...
Open source textbooks hit key point in the S curve
The s-curve is, as I’ve written here many times, is the key to understanding business evolution and pricing. Demand for your product will grow slowly at first, so you want to keep your prices high and focus your marketing. read more...
Aug 23, 2010
VA approaches open source day of reckoning
Long before open source entered the lexicon, the Veterans Administration (VA) was known to techies for VistA, an electronic medical record (EMR) program written in MUMPS that was developed in an open way and published as a public record, freely available. read more...
Commercialization of volunteer-driven open source projects
Open source projects driven by volunteer developers are essential, but, eventually, commercialization must take hold for the good of the project. read more...
Aug 19, 2010
Microhoo lessons for open source
On the surface the tie-up between Microsoft and Yahoo means nothing to open source. read more...
Oracle aims to destroy open source software industry
If proprietary companies like Oracle can buy up open source projects and then take back their open source status, how can an enterprise depend on open source software? read more...
Aug 17, 2010
Oracle scorns open source: How to respond?
The message is clear: Fork all the main open source projects that Oracle owns or transfer energies to a replacement read more...
IT executives and developers on open source collision course
The software selection process is increasingly pitting developers against IT executives, but the conflict is avoidable read more...
Aug 12, 2010
Microsoft has not invented here syndrome
The story of how Microsoft killed its chances in mobile telephony by strangling Danger, a company it had bought only a few years ago, turns out to be a symptom of a much larger problem. read more...
Analyst: open source officially crosses the chasm into mainstream adoption
Open source has officially “crossed the chasm from early adoption to mainstream adoption,” one top analyst announced at LinuxCon. read more...
Aug 11, 2010
Will Hurd-less HP take a less proprietary turn
I really thought at first there was no open source angle with the Mark Hurd scandal.Then Larry Ellison started praising Hurd to the skies and I took another look. read more...
Top challenges for Linux kernel team outlined at LinuxCon
The biggest challenges for Linux going forward include addressing next gen scalability and networking requirements. read more...
Aug 10, 2010
Apple is the new open source villain
I wouldn’t be so unequivocal in that headline except for the source.It’s an in-depth analysis from Florian Mueller, whose FOSSPatents remains fiercely opposed to all software patents. read more...
What SAP can teach you on how to adopt open source
The two big lessons: Use approval processes and consider encouraging developer contributions to open source projects. read more...
