Ubuntu cloud services. PostgreSQL 8.4. And more.

Venture capital funding for open source vendors was down 50% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year. No great surprise there, but there was some good news as that figures was an increase on $45.4m raised in Q1.
According to our preliminary figures, there were 13 announced funding deals in the second [...]

There has been no shortage of lively discussion on open source software licenses with recent shifts in the top licenses, perspectives on the licenses or lack of them for networked, SaaS and cloud-based software, increased prominence of a Microsoft open source license and concern over the openness (or closedness, depending on your perspedtive) of the [...]

Red Hat announced a new cloud certification and partner program. I’ve been expecting to see and hear more from Red Hat on cloud computing given its prominence in Linux and open source and the prominence of Linux and open source in the cloud. However, I’m left asking a few questions.
First of all, where are all [...]

Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more.

Topics for this podcast:
*Intel makes latest Moblin move with Nokia
*Sonatype building commercial software, strategy around Apache Maven
*OpenLogic sees growth, changing perspectives on open source
*Some thoughts on open source and sales and marketing
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Red Hat revenue growth. The importance of Eclipse Galileo. And more.

Dennis Byron is right to point out some “seeds of rain in the forecast” in Red Hat’s first-quarter financial results.
On the face of it, Red Hat is performing very well despite current conditions, and in the first quarter recorded net income of $18.5m on revenue up 11% to $174m. As Dennis notes, however, deferred [...]

Is it a phone, is it a PC? A netbook or MID? It’s Moblin and if Intel has its way, it will be ‘inside’ the mobile devices we’re using in a year or two, whatever they look like or whatever they’re called.
The latest page of this Intel Moblin story is the announced partnership with mobile [...]

Reductive Labs raises funding. Virtual Iron bites the dust. And more.

When Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for UK public services, announced in May that it had signed a new software licencing deal with Microsoft, there was some consternation that the deal was held up as a reinforcement of the Government’s Open Source Action Plan.
The answer was that the agreement allowed “licences already purchased to [...]

Red Hat beta Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more.

An excerpt from “After The Software Wars,” a new book written by former Microsoft employee Keith Curtis highlights one of the reasons why the rank and file within proprietary software developers fail to appreciate the potential of open source.

“At Microsoft, I got all the software I wanted for free.”

I’ve been thinking about this issue recently [...]

As we prepare to publish a new, special CAOS report on open source software licensing, I thought it might be fitting to revisit one of our previous reports, CAOS Report 10 - Mobility Matters, given all that’s going on and all the open source going in smartphones, e-readers, netbooks, and other devices where open source [...]

I had an interesting chat with Nobby Akiha , senior VP marketing and Rich Guth, VP open source strategy, at Actuate, about the company’s ongoing conversion to open source. Having got involved with open source via the Eclipse BIRT project, the company is going through the process of re-archtecting its strategy to address the open [...]

There has been a significant increase in interest in the Memcached, the open source distributed memory object-caching system, in recent months, as a number of vendors look to exploit its popularity in Web 2.0 and social networking environments.
Like Hadoop, which has become the focus of a number of commercial plays, it would appear that the [...]

Open source and SMBs. New funding for Lucid Imagination. And more.

Two of the biggest open source events in Europe both announced their calls for papers today. Open World Forum 2009 will take place in Paris in October (preceded by the Open Source Think Tank) while Open Source Meets Business 2010 will take place in Nuremberg in January next year.
The theme for Open World Forum 2009 [...]

Topics for this podcast:
*Code consolidation as SourceForge scoops up Ohloh
*Has open source won the enterprise battle? What now?
*Continued clouds for open source with Freedom OSS
*Red Hat’s JBoss Open Choice
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Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.