While last week’s JBoss news was dominated by Red Hat’s acquisition of the company, EnterpriseDB and JBoss announced a strategic partnership on Thursday. The press release uses the boilerplate partnership language, but this may be an interesting first-step in things to come. As companies, JBoss and EnterpriseDB have some similarities, and it’s in the best [...]

The Financial Times published an in-depth interview with Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, on Sunday. From the original article (registration required), Larry sheds some light on a number of interesting topics relating to open source. You can also read a synopsis of the interview from Reuters, but it leaves out some important points. In [...]

From the Daily Dave, a penetration testing mailing list which has seen a couple vendors snipe back and forth at one another recently about one claiming to have found an exploit in the other’s … uh, whatever. Dave Aitel, CTO of Immunity, Inc., in an effort to settle the issue objectively, writes: You, the vendor, [...]

Dana Blankenhorn, the author of the ZDNet.com open source blog, posted a piece today entitled, “To the class of 2006“. Google supported these concepts last year with its Summer of Code initiative. It looks like Google is planning a repeat this summer.

Being one of the few Linux-on-the-desktop users in the 451 organization (451 uses hardened CentOS on all its servers and various Linux flavors for mission critical apps, plus LAMP on the web servers), I have a special purchase case when it comes to the new laptop. With my ancient Dell Inspiron 5150 running Breezy experiencing [...]

Stephen Shankland at CNET News.com just posted an article entitled, “VMware-friendly change likely for Linux“, regarding a move away from the standardization of Xen as the virtualization technology in the Linux kernel. This move seems to be due, in part, by lobbying from VMWare, a commercial provider of virtualization technology. An interesting tidbit from the [...]

Automattic, the commercial operation of the team behind the WordPress open source blogging software (somewhat obvious disclosure: this blog uses WordPress) has taken its first round of external funding. It is not disclosing the name, type of funding or the amount, but given Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic is a partner at early stage VC [...]

The open source portal space has been heating up in recent years and we’re seeing many of the content management and blogging platforms offer portal-like services. Here I am talking about portals as if we’re on the same page. It’s difficult to find a definition of ‘portal’ that people are in agreement with, and implementations [...]

If you take a look at the About page on the Red Hat web site, the company claims to be “The Open Source Leader.” In its press releases, Red Hat describes itself as ” the world’s leading open source and Linux provider.” Up until yesterday’s JBoss acquisition announcement, I was somewhat dismissive of Red Hat’s [...]

The cache strikes back (or is it the “cash”)? Marc Fleury posted a blog entry entitled “Sun vs Red Hat, who is more Open Source”, on September 28, 2004, in which he stated his opinions on a ‘blog war’ between Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann and Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz. The Register has a story about this [...]

One of the unique features of this blog is the extended blogroll (see right column). We not only provide links to some of our favorite open source blogs, but we display links to recent post titles, giving you a sense of the various topics being covered in the “open source blogosphere.” Here is what the [...]

When I talked to Shaun Connolly, JBoss’s vp of product development a few weeks ago, he danced around the Oracle-JBoss acquisition rumors, suggesting that JBoss was on the IPO track and any company that did want to acquire it would have to respect its business model. Apparently, one company that would respect JBoss’ business model [...]

Cesar Cerrudo, CEO of security consultancy Argeniss – who’s written some seriously interesting papers including a recent one on Windows local shellcode injection, has just released a new version of his Argeniss Ultimate 0day Exploits Pack which run on the Canvas platform from Immunity Security. Canvas is LGPL; both are commercial software which come with [...]

I’m not here to bash Microsoft. MS bashing bores me. But there’s something not quite right about the company’s new Open Source Software Lab’s Port 25 blog – previously mentioned by Dennis below. This is an interesting beast and the way it is set up tells us quite a lot about how the company views the open source world. There are also lessons that can be draw by other companies attempting to converse with an open-source community.

The winners of the LinuxWorld Expo Product Excellence Awards have been posted. Check out the press release. The “Best of Show” was given to Novell for OpenSUSE. Two email products won awards in different categories, which I found a bit unusual. Maria Winslow, one of the judges, posted a blog entry about the process.

I’m sitting here at the airport, waiting to fly home from LinuxWorld Boston. My two days at the show were packed full with vendor meetings, sessions, and networking. My talk on open source and grid computing on the expo floor was attended by only a handful of people, as it was the last session on [...]

OSTG was at LinuxWorld Boston to announce the winners of the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. I voted a few weeks ago and was curious to see who would win. I found the results to be painfully obvious. At least I left with a handful of kazoos (kazoos?!). No joke. A group of us [...]

I wasn’t sure what to expect at this morning’s LinuxWorld keynote by John Hilf, Microsoft’s director of platform technology strategy. A Microsoft exec speaking at a Linux conference? I was hoping for fireworks, catcalls, shoutdowns, but nothng of the sort happened. Instead Hilf, a former Apache programmer, but not a very good one by his own [...]

I arrived at LinuxWorld myself a few hours ago. Initial impressions? Following up on Raven’s post, there is definitely no shortage of hardware vendors here, complimented by other vendors that make up the data center ecosystem: storage and high availability vendors and data center and server management vendors, as well as user groups and education [...]

Tom Miura has left startup open-source SOA platform vendor LogicBlaze after he had been the company’s first CEO. Miura, a former executive at IBM and Versant, has given way to Winston Damarillo, who heads Simula Labs, LogicBlaze’s incubator. Damarillo is officially known as LogicBlaze’s “executive chairman” and appears to be running the company, which offers [...]