In mid-May, Hyperic announced that it has raised $2.5 million U.S. as part of its Series A funding round from Accel Partners. Less than a month later, the company announced that it would be pursuing an open source business model, releasing its Hyperic HQ monitoring product under an open source license. Hyperic was initially projecting [...]

Matt Asay and Dave Rosenberg’s InfoWorld blog entry regarding Microsoft’s shared source initiative made me think a bit. What really got me was just how negative the whole entry was on MS and SAP. I mean, yeah, these have been the poster children (along with Oracle) for proprietary software for a long time. But rather [...]

IT Week posted an article today quoting Novell’s new CEO, Ron Hovsepian, regarding the possibility of Novell pursuing acquisitions in the management space. While this does not necessarily imply an open source angle, it would not surprise me in the slightest.

Raven’s right about the worldwide impact of open source. This week I sat down with Peter Harrison of Induslogic and Leonard Liu of Augmentum, providing software product engineering services from India and China respectively. Both make extensive use of commodity stack components, though neither’s particularly religious about it. Induslogic likes free software for its price [...]

Compiere, an open source ERP company, announced today that they have raised $6M U.S. from NEA (New Enterprise Associates) and are moving from Portland to Silicon Valley. I haven’t had the opportunity to talk with Jorg Janke, Compiere’s CEO, about this news yet. Jorg recently moved the company from Monroe, Connecticut, to Portland, Oregon, and [...]

I spent some time last Thursday meeting with the exhibitors at JBoss World in Las Vegas. One of the exhibitors was FiveRuns, an “open source systems management” company. FiveRuns certainly will monitor open source systems, and they use open source technology to power their business. They even plan to open source some of their technology [...]

I was catching up on technology news this weekend (after a long week in Las Vegas for conferences), and came across a Sun Microsystems advertisement for Solaris 10. Join over 4 million others and get Solaris 10 today. >> Download now I have Solaris 10 on DVD already, but I thought I’d check this out [...]

I stuck around JBoss World in Las Vegas late enough to catch an interesting presentation as the conference was wrapping up this afternoon on how the city of Loma Linda, Calif. has wired itself with a high-speed fiber optics network. Now it’s just looking for ideas for how to take advantage of this network. Think of application [...]

In Part I of our multi-part series of discussions with Canonical CEO and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, Shuttleworth covered the delay in the release of Dapper, and something of a history of the open source and free software movements. In Part II, Shuttleworth spoke specifically about Dapper in the Enterprise, and a bit about how [...]

To encourage greater blog participation, we are now allowing readers to comment without creating an account. We will continue to support the registration system and users with existing accounts on this blog will not need to fill in name and email when commenting. As always, we’ve love to engage in a discussion on open source [...]

I was on the phone today with Charlie Babock from Information Week, catching up and talking about all things open source. He mentioned an article that he wrote last month regarding open source developers. I somehow overlooked this – check it out if you haven’t done so already. Open Source Software: Who Gives And Who [...]

Hyperic announced today that it has gone open (see press release). The Hyperic web site has been slowwww all day, so I assume that it has been getting a fair amount of traffic. Today, the Hyperic HQ monitoring platform is available as a free binary download and the source code will be made available in [...]

We weren’t even aware that Bob Bickel was still a JBoss employee until he filled in for JBoss CEO Marc Fleury to do the opening keynote at SYS-CON’s combo SOA WebServices Edge/Enterprise OpenSource/Real World AJAX conference in New York this morning. Donning Fleury’s new red beret, Bickel, once JBoss’s VP of strategy and corporate development and [...]

Fault-tolerant systems vendor Stratus Technologies has offered a Linux option on its x86-based ftServer hardware since 2002 – but it’s never really taken off, largely because it was a non-standard distribution, with all the problems that brings for ISVs, compatibility etc. Just recently, however, Stratus and its technology partner NEC have been showing off a [...]

Recently, Ubuntu founder and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke with The 451 Group at length about Dapper, Ubuntu, and the trends and development of the open source and free software movements as they relate to enterprise information technology. Last week, we ran Part I of a multi-part series in which The 451 Group presents Shuttleworth’s [...]

I posted a note about our open source stack providers survey in mid-May, and I am putting out a final call to take part in this short survey. The survey only takes five minutes, and your participation is highly valued. We will be closing the survey in the next few weeks and publishing the results [...]

EnterpriseDB, an open source database company based on PostgreSQL, issued a press release today (“Survey Predicts Wave of Enterprise Open Source Database Deployments“) regarding the results of the 2006 Open Source Impressions Survey, sent to over 12,000 subscribers of the Sys-Con publication, Java Developer’s Journal. The survey was sponsored by EnterpriseDB, and this was disclosed [...]

Preparing to rollout Dapper LTS today, the Ubuntu website has done something new: it now lists commercial support options right on the front page. Canonical offers desktop Linux support for a year, up to ten cases, starting at $250 for desktops, $750 for servers and $1200 for thin client and cluster support. In addition to [...]