The Open Source Census: This Data is Really Cool

Posted by Kim Weins on April 29th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Cool story:  I just got out of a meeting with a VC who is a potential investor in OpenLogic.  At one point during the meeting, he asked about adoption of open source application frameworks — specifically Struts and Spring.  I pulled up the web site for The Open Source Census, went to the All Packages [...]

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Open Source Support: Increase the Value, Lower the Cost

Posted by Kim Weins on April 29th, 2008 in Support

In a recent post on open source business models, Fabrizio Copabianco from Funambol states his belief that a business model based solely on support won’t work. I can’t believe a pure model based on support is going to scale to the one billion dollars we always talk about. A pure support and services model works [...]

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A No-Cost Starting Point for Open Source Governance

Posted by Kim Weins on April 29th, 2008 in Governance

The old adage, “you can’t manage what you can’t measure” applies to open source as well.  Bernard Golden recently posted on why it is important for CIOs to understand what open source software they are using in order to adequately address both the infrastructure needs and legal requirements of open source.  He looks at the challenges [...]

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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment – It’s not about Ubuntu

Posted by Landon Cox on April 29th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment has been making the rounds and has been quite amusing from many angles. Ironically, I received this email from my Mom a few minutes ago: "I keep getting a notice on the screen that I should install the latest version of Flash. Seems like nothing is working right this morning on [...]

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Community Viablity

Posted by Stormy Peters on April 28th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

When you decide to not only use an open source software project but to really rely on it, accessing community viability is important. You don't want to build your business around a project only to discover that nobody is really working on it, bugs never get fixed and there are no new releases. At OpenLogic [...]

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Picking a license for an open source software project

Posted by Stormy Peters on April 28th, 2008 in Legal & Compliance

Mark Radcliff gave a talk at OSBC about making sure your legal strategy matches your open source strategy. One of the things he talked about and blogged about was how to pick a license. He mentioned 7 factors to consider when picking a license: the sources of revenue the type of product business model type [...]

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OLPC missing its community opportunity

Posted by Stormy Peters on April 24th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

I've heard rumors lately that the One Laptop Per Child program may go to Windows. That would be a shame. And not because I think Linux should win over Windows but because OLPC has the largest, spontaneous community I've seen and OLPC would lose them immediately if they moved to Windows. When I'm at conferences, [...]

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Ruby and Microsoft

Posted by Rod Cope on April 23rd, 2008 in Open Source Trends

Microsoft just held their 2008 "MVP Global Summit" in Redmond last week.  This is an internal conference where they recognize awardees in a number of divisions and have over 400 technical sessions on a variety of topics. The interesting bit for me is that Jamie Cannon reports that there's an informal meeting of Microsoft Rubyists [...]

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Would you do it again for free? My LinuxConf Australia keynote

Posted by Stormy Peters on April 17th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

A number of people have asked about my "Would you do it again for free?" presentation. It's a talk about why open source developers started working on open source software and how money and companies have changed that.  One of the things about the open source community that continues to baffle those non-open source people [...]

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CIOs: Are you using MySQL? Find out with The Open Source Census

Posted by Kim Weins on April 17th, 2008 in Open Source Trends

I just read Matt Asay's blog post MySQL adoption: Deep and wide in which he refers to an anecdote on Jonathan Schwarz's blog about MySQL adoption in the enterprise. In the anecdote, Jonathan meets with a CIO who claims that they don't run MySQL.  A Sun sales rep counters this claim with the tidbit that there [...]

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