Enterprise Open Source Journal, July/August 2006 (Digital Magazine) AOL Provides Key Contributions to the Dojo Foundation (Press Release) Successful LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2006 in San Francisco Completed (Press Release) BitTorrent Manages Explosive Growth With 365 Main (Press Release) Sun Studio 11 Performance Results Sizzle in Newest Application Benchmark Result; Sun Launches Sun Studio Express [...]

Hi, readers! Remember me? I’ve been working on a forthcoming major report on virtualization, looking especially at the next two years of M&A opportunities around the hypervisor and server consolidation. If (like me) you’re wowed by this technology and its potential, I’d love you to help us out. I’ve created a user survey that should [...]

As I mentioned in a prior blog posting, “Introducting the CAOS Research Service,” I will be blogging about the various components of the recently announced CAOS Research Service. Last week, I blogged about the CAOS Research Reports. This week, the topic is the CAOS email update. The CAOS email update will be a biweekly update [...]

Marc Fleury, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss division of Red Hat (formerly CEO of JBoss, Inc.), has posted a blog entry, “Wall Street, Oracle and Game Theory,” about the viability of Oracle Linux. It’s a bit more detailed than what I’d expect from an SVP of a public company regarding potential [...]

Zend Technologies, “The PHP Company”, announced today (press release) that it has raised an additional $20M U.S. in its Series D funding round. Stephen Shankland at c|net posted information about this last night, but I was waiting until the official announcement today to post a blog entry. The latest funding round was led by Greylock [...]

Jennifer Mears at Network World has posted an article, “Open source companies to watch,” which looks at nine open source startups and an open source project – Cleversafe, Digium, Hyperic, Optaros, Qlusters, rPath, Sahana, WSO2, Zenoss, and Zmanda.

Metasploit has upgraded its website and released the second beta release of the 3.0 tree, for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows using MSF’s custom Cygwin installer. As we reported this month, Metasploit downloads run heavily in favor of Windows – in July 2006, 41,000 people downloaded the Windows edition of MSF v 2.6, [...]

We’ve been looking at some of the emerging trends in IT security, and one is that of penetration (‘pen’) testing moving up into enterprise respectability. In fact, pen-testing is moving right into the network operations center (NOC). With a slew of easy-to-use tools, the average Joe sysadmin can demonstrate the impact of exploits and test [...]

The core aspect of the 451 CAOS Research Service are the reports – six comprehensive ‘big-idea’ reports per year. As we are already more than halfway through 2006, we plan to release three CAOS Reports this year, but intend to release six reports per year in 2007 and beyond. The first report, ‘Stack and Deliver’, [...]

I am pleased the announce today the we have officially launched the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and the first CAOS Report – “Stack and Deliver,” covering the open source stack provider space. For more details on these announcements, I invite you to take a look at the two press releases [...]

Last week, I attended LinuxWorld San Francisco to meet with vendors, participate in a Mobile Linux panel, and to simply experience the main LinuxWorld event. Although IDG World Expo produces LinuxWorld in more than 15 countries, LinuxWorld San Francisco is the flagship event. This was my first time as an attendee of LinuxWorld San Francisco, [...]

Computer Reseller News (CRN) Australia has posted an article today by Paula Rooney entitled “Red Hat a no-show at LinuxWorld.” I’m still at LinuxWorld (expect a recap posting tomorrow) and the absence of Red Hat on the expo floor is one of the main topics within the media room amongst journalists and analysts. Who knows [...]

I’m headed to LinuxWorld San Francisco in a few hours (sans liquids and gels in my carry-on bag). Having recently relocated to Portland, Oregon, I’ve reduced my flight time to San Francisco from 4.5 hours to just 90 minutes. My schedule is packed with vendor briefings, sessions, and the evening parties. On Thursday afternoon, I [...]

This week, Apple is holding its annual developer’s conference – WWDC. It’s historically not a conference with much open source activity, but since Apple’s aquisition of NeXT in the mid 90′s, the company inherited an operating system with open source underpinnings. This operating system eventually became the basis of Mac OS X. Apple made a [...]

Digium, which is the main commercial entity behind the Asterisk open source telephony platform, and brainchild of Mark Spencer, just received a nice pile of cash. The funding round, led by David Skok at Matrix partners, totals $13.8m. Matrix was also a backer of JBOSS. Digium says it has experienced 100% growth in each of [...]

Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant amount of commercial activity relating to the open source database, PostgreSQL. EnterpriseDB raised $20 million US in its Series B funding round (press release), and signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to provide PostgreSQL support to Sun’s customers (article). GreenPlum and Sun announced a partnership [...]

With OSCON 2006 behind me, I have now found the time to sit down and blog about my experience during the remaining days of the convention. My initial plan was to post daily updates from OSCON. However, as soon as day three of the convention began, it was non-stop action from morning until night. Add [...]