OpenLogic's mission in life is to make it easy for enterprises to use open source software, so the first question we ask when we meet with a potential customer is "What open source software are you using?" That's a hard question for a large company to answer. It turns out that the commercial software tracking [...]
Read More »So everyone knows that open source software is developed a little differently than traditional proprietary – but how is it different? How does that difference in the development model affect the software itself? That's what the guys at How Software is Built have set out to find out. They are interviewing lots of people about [...]
Read More »So I decided to go my own way since I don't really like installing via a package manager. IMO, package managers are good for installing shared libraries and the like on Linux, but major apps like Subversion and PostgreSQL and stuff like that I like to install where I want them so I can maintain [...]
Read More »I blogged a couple weeks ago about the OpenLogic-hosted panel at OSBC consisting of three enterprise visionaries sharing advice on creating open source policies and managing open source risks. In Part 2, I wanted to share the highlights from their advice on open source policies. Policies should address acquisition, usage and contributions of open source Jon [...]
Read More »Halmaka John thinks that 2008 is the year of the desktop. I think he did a good job of describing the things that don't work well enough yet. Hopefully this will serve as a call to arms not only to the open source community – who has been working really hard on this issue for [...]
Read More »So I've been asking if you are working for free and then you get paid, if you no longer get paid, will you continue working (for free)? Jimmy Guterman asks a related question, "Do You Work Better If You're Working For Free?" I don't know but I'll add two points: Another example to back up [...]
Read More »Six Apart will be releasing an open source version of their product Movable Type. I think this is great. Many in the blogosphere have said that Six Apart has been forced to move to open source because its largest competitor, WordPress, is open source. (Both WordPress and Movable Type are blogging platforms.) Maybe. Maybe customers [...]
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