I know everyone's been saying it: The economic downturn will drive more people to open source. Because OpenLogic sells support on 500 projects as well as open source governance services and solutions, we get a very broad view of enterprise use of open source. After analyzing our Q3 and 2009 results, I've seen the data, [...]
Read More »A recent survey we did of enterprises using open source, showed that they are not big fans of the open-core business model. Recent blogs by Matthew Aslett, Jay Lyman, John Mark Walker center around this issue of the future of the open core business model. At OpenLogic, we are a VC-backed company that has developed [...]
Read More »I recently wrote a blog post about what what happened when Projity (backers of OpenProj) got acquired by Serena Software. After months of trying to get attention from the OpenProj community about some missing source code (including forum posts, emails, calls to Serena) I finally resorted to public embarassment in hopes of getting a result. [...]
Read More »Update 10/5/09: The day after I wrote this blog and twittered it, the OpenProj committers provided the missing source code. There has been lots of discussion about what will happen to MySQL once it is acquired by Oracle. In a generic sense, the question really comes down to this: What happens to an open source [...]
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