The Enterprise Open Source Blog

Open Source Trends for 2011: HBase, Node.js and nginx are Top Gainers

Posted by Kim Weins on January 18th, 2012 in Open Source Trends

Although it may be easy to identify the open source projects that widely used, uncovering the hot new projects that enterprises should be evaluating can be more challenging. OpenLogic’s Open Source Trending report analyzes which open source projects are growing the most quickly in enterprise interest and adoption during the past year. With this information, you can keep an eye on the trends that may be coming to your enterprise in the year ahead.

OpenLogic analyzed 8 growth metrics for 16 projects in three categories — web and application servers; application frameworks; and databases and big data. The projects were stack ranked on each metric and across all metrics to create an overall growth ranking.

Open Source Software in Cars: Five Best Practices for Compliance

Posted by Kim Weins on December 19th, 2011 in Governance, Legal & Compliance, Open Source Trends, Scanning & Provisioning, Support

For auto companies that are using or want to use open source software, it’s important to build open source compliance processes into your development and procurement processes.

You’ve probably already heard that GM’s Chevy Volt has over 10 million lines of code – 2 million more than a fighter jet. What you may not know is that the Volt includes a lot of open source software – and the open source code used is available on the oss.gm.com website to fulfill the requirements of the GPL and LGPL licenses.

But the use of open source in cars doesn’t stop there. GENIVI, a non-profit industry alliance that includes members like BMW, Delphi and GM working to create an open source development platform for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI). In addition, several Android-based IVI systems have been announced and more are coming soon. The use of open source also extends to the many car-focused mobile apps for both Android and Apple platforms.

I spoke at the recent Automotive Linux Summit in Japan and shared five tips to help you ensure you are complying with the open source licenses that you use:

Avoiding the MySQL Price Increase

Posted by Kim Weins on October 11th, 2010 in Support

Word is out that Oracle intends to increase prices on MySQL. The news is not a surprise — we predicted it 18 months ago when the deal was announced. Although it would be convenient to blame Larry Ellison, the fact is that Red Hat did the same when they acquired JBoss.

Open Source Scanning: A Case Study in SaaS and Cloud Technologies

Posted by Kim Weins on May 12th, 2010 in Scanning & Provisioning

OpenLogic offers several solutions to help companies scan their software and systems to find any open source software that is being used. At OpenLogic, we’ve proven that a (software-as-a-service) SaaS solution coupled with cloud technologies creates a faster and easier solution for our customers.

Complying with the GPL: How to Avoid Being Named in the Next GPL Lawsuit

Posted by Kim Weins on December 17th, 2009 in Legal & Compliance

Earlier this week, the latest round of BusyBox GPL lawsuits were announced by the SFLC. The current offenders are Best Buy, JVC, Samsung, Westinghouse and 10 others. It seems that every few months, there are a new round of violations or lawsuits announced, so it behooves every company that distributes software or products containing software to ensure they aren’t ever on the list. We announced our Open Source Fulfillment Center service earlier this week that helps companies ensure they comply with the GPL.

What Does OpenLogic’s CentOS Support Include?

Posted by Kim Weins on December 17th, 2009 in Support

We announced last week that we were offering support for CentOS — a community distribution of Linux that is created from the publicly available source code that is used to create RHEL.  CentOS strives to be binary compatible with RHEL and is built from the source code that is used to make RHEL — minus [...]

Complying With Open Source Licenses Just Got Easier

Posted by Kim Weins on December 9th, 2009 in Legal & Compliance

Companies that distribute software containing open source often struggle to comply with open source licenses.  (See latest lawsuit by Artifex against Palm). Most companies that violate open source licenses do so because they haven't properly tracked the open source software they used or what open source licenses apply.  The use of code from outsourcers and [...]

OpenLogic Now Supporting CentOS

Posted by Kim Weins on December 1st, 2009 in Support

After four years supporting a wide variety of open source projects for over 120 enterprises, OpenLogic is now expanding our offering to include commercial support for community distributions of Linux.  Today we announced that we are offering commercial support for CentOS as our first community Linux distro. Here's a Q&A explaining the why's and how's [...]

I’ve Seen the Data: Economy Goes Down, Open Source Goes Up

Posted by Kim Weins on October 29th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

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, [...]

Lessons Learned: A Services-Based Open Source Business Model

Posted by Kim Weins on October 6th, 2009 in Open Source Trends

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 [...]