I’ve been so busy at OSCON, I am just now finding the time to post the day 2 recap. I’ll try to get the day 3 recap up later today. Day 2 (Tuesday) of OSCON was another tutorial day. I spent the morning listening to: Just Enough Intellectual Property Law to Manage an Open Source [...]

I spent Monday at OSCON in two half-day tutorials: Business Partnering with Open Source Communities: Opportunities, Perils, and Pitfalls by James Howison. James shared some fascinating research on open source communities, including data mining results of SourceForge projects. One of the most interesting pieces of information from the talk was a graph on the number [...]

I’m posting from the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, at the start of OSCON 2006, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The conference runs all week, from July 24th through July 28th. For me, the timing is perfect. I arrived in Portland last week as part of my move here. As a resident of Portland, [...]

Compiere has just added Larry Augustin to its Board of Directors.  Augustin is an old school open source brain, and the company notes he was one of the group who coined the term “Open Source” in the first place. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA [...]

A new site www.ohloh.net popped up on people’s radars today and was promptly Slashdotted to death, although it is now recovering. It’s avowed intent is to act as a single point of intelligence on open source projects, enabling developers and users find the projects that meet their criteria. That may sound rather like Freshmeat, or [...]

Pentaho, an open source business intelligence software company, announced today that it has raised $8 million US in its Series B financing round, from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Index Ventures. It wasn’t too long ago that Pentaho announced its Series A financing round – in December 2005 (press release). That’s a total of $13 [...]

Open source ERP/CRM vendor Compiere has added a dozen new partners. The new partners include Avanted, Cobweb, Dassou, DATALP, HyperData, Intelligent Business Systems, Omega/TGI, Open Mind Consultancy, Pantaservice, Proxima, Seath Solutions and Transitional Data Services. As a member of the global partner network, these companies are trained by Compiere to provide implementation, integration, customization and [...]

ITP Technology published an article over the weekend, “Larry sets sights on Red Hat’s customers“, speculating that Oracle intends to provide its own operating system support services for Red Hat Linux. This would allow an Oracle database or application customer that has deployed on Red Hat Linux to obtain support for both the operating system [...]

Interesting thread on The Daily Dave pen-testing mailing list: Dave asked if anyone had a list comparing the patch speeds of different Linux distributions, such as, who patched OpenOffice bugs first…And who patched them last. And when will Ubuntu include grsec? One of the list members shot back a post calling our attention to The [...]

Trolltech, an open source company focused on the cross-platform and mobile development tools space, had its initial public offering today on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE: TROLL) today. Shares were offered at 16 NOK (Norwegian Kroner), which is approximately $2.57 US, and closed on its first day slightly up at 17.50 NDK, approximately $2.81 US. [...]