If you’re a MySQL user, tell us about your adoption plans by taking our current survey. Back in late 2009, at the height of the concern about Oracle’s imminent acquisition of Sun Microsystems and MySQL, 451 Research conducted a survey of open source software users to assess their database usage and attitudes towards Oracle. The [...]

Topics for this podcast: *Hadoop v1.0 and year ahead *Oracle-Cloudera deal for more Hadoop *Oracle’s ‘Sun spot’ with Solaris *Open Source M&A outlook for 2012 *Our new MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey iTunes or direct download (28:49, 4.9MB)

I’ve just launched a new survey that should be of interest if you are currently using or actively considering MySQL or any of the NoSQL or NewSQL offerings The aim of the survey is threefold: – identify trends in database usage over time – explore changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle – [...]

Previously, I’ve called out years for non-desktop Linux in 2008, Linux in both the low and high-ends of the market in 2009, ‘hidden’ Linux in 2010 and last year, cloud computing in 2011. For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux. [...]

The lack of women involved in open source has unfortunately long been a weakness for open source software and its many, varied communities around the globe. In fact, we found out recently just how significant the problem is, with troubling figures as reported by Valerie Aurora with the Ada Initiative that indicate significantly lower representation [...]

Red Hat revenue hits $290m. New CEOs for Cloudant and Lucid Imagination. And more.

The reason we are confident that the comparative decline in the use of the GNU GPL family of licenses and the increasing significance of complementary vendors in relation to funding for open source software-related vendors will continue is due to the analysis of our database of more than 400 open source software-related vendors, past and [...]

…and it’s totally awesome. For more details of our Total Data report, and how to get it, see our Too Much Information blog.

Topics for this podcast: *Hadoop roundup -Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop update -Hadapt combines Hadoop with db analytics -Informatica grows its Hadoop work *HP open sources WebOS *The GPL fade *Red Hat acquisition targets iTunes or direct download (31:41, 5.4MB)

One of the favourite blog topics on CAOS Theory blog over the years has been our quarterly and annual updates on venture capital funding for open source-related businesses, based on our database of over 600 funding deals since January 1997 involving nearly 250 companies, and over $4.8bn. There are still a few days left for [...]

Our most popular CAOS blog post of the year, by some margin, was this one, from early June, looking at the trend towards persmissive licensing, and the decline in the usage of the GNU GPL family of licenses. Prompted by this post by Bruce Byfield, I thought it might be interesting to bring that post [...]

Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.

There has been no shortage of reaction to HP’s move to make the Linux-based WebOS open source software. Below, I offer some of my thoughts on the meaning for the different players affected. *What’s it mean for WebOS? Moving WebOS to open source was best option for HP. It retains some value in the software [...]

Funding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more.

Data.gov goes open source. GridGain raises $2.5m And more.

Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.

Ubuntu has been taking some criticism and heat for its falling Distrowatch rankings. I don’t doubt that after years of popularity, we’re finally seeing a bit of a return to the desktop Linux world of old when a new distribution shot up every week or month, then faded, then re-appeared … and so on. However, [...]

Software foundations in the Git era. New funding for Puppet Labs. And more

Red Hat’s Ceylon makes its debut. Heroku launches PostgreSQL service. And more.

Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.