BEA CTO: Open-source projects out of sync with users, Computerworld, John Ribeiro (Article) Is ROI a ‘Bogus’ Indicator of IT Value?, eWeek, Peter Galli (Article) Google Summer of Code 2006 a Success , Internet News, Sean Kerner (Article) Open source unlocks options for many businesses, Techworld, Jennifer Mears (Article) Not quite answered: Can open source [...]

SpikeSource and JasperSoft to Deliver Open Source Business Intelligence Applications, JasperSoft / SpikeSource (Press Release) ActiveGrid Names Former BEA and Adobe Veteran Todd Hay New VP of Marketing, ActiveGrid (Press Release) Five Reasons I’m Not Worried About Red Hat, Linux Magazine, Bryan Richard (Article) OSDL: Patent Infringement Not a Real Open-Source Threat, eWeek, Peter Galli [...]

OpenLogic, an open source stack provider, announced yesterday that it had completed its $4.3m Series A funding round (press release). Participants in the round included UV Partners, Appian Ventures, Village Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures, Red Rock Venture, and several of the OpenLogic executives. The press release also includes some company highlights from the past six [...]

OpenLogic Meets Goals, Continues Strong Growth With Completion of $4.3 Million Round of Funding, OpenLogic (Press Release) Alfresco Launches Enterprise Class Open Source Web Content Management, Alfresco (Press Release) Oracle Unveils Oracle Berkeley DB Release 4.5, Oracle (Press Release) Eclipse Foundation Selects Palamida Software, Palamida (Press Release) Premier Agribusiness Analysis Firm Replaces IBM DB2 with [...]

Red Hat announced its fiscal 2007 second quarter earning results yesterday (press release). This was the first quarter that included consolidated JBoss financials. JBoss accounted for $7m of the total $99.7m in revenue for the quarter. Although Red Hat indicated that this was the 6th consecutive quarter adding more than 10,000 new customers and the [...]

Red Hat Reports Fiscal 2007 Second Quarter Results, Red Hat (Press Release) CollabNet extends SaaS leadership by addressing essential reliability and security requirements of global enterprise customers, CollabNet (Press Release) Unicon Develops & Contributes New Features & Technology Enhancements to uPortal Open Source Portal for Higher Education, Unicon (Press Release) Compiere Appoints Ram Gupta to [...]

Nexaweb, a RIA (Rich Internet Application) software company [a.k.a. "Enterprise Web 2.0"], has raised an additional $10M US in its Series B funding round. Investors participating in the round include Egan-Managed Capital, Masthead Venture Partners and Velocity Partners. The company has also announced the appointment of a new CEO – Christian Heidelberger, formerly of ChannelWave [...]

Do you value the daily 451 CAOS Links? Is this a service of our open source blog that you would like us to continue? Please contact us. Breach Acquires ModSecurity Open Source Vendor Thinking Stone; Founder Ivan Ristic Joins Breach As Chief Evangelist, Breach Security (Press Release) Nexaweb Closes $10 Million in Funding, Nexaweb (Press [...]

As I mentioned in a prior post regarding the new Funding and M&A blog categories, there were a number of announcements over the past few weeks that were not covered individually. Recent M&A activity summary: Breach Security acquires Thinking Stone and the ModSecurity (mod_security) open source project (press release) Terms were not disclosed 2006.09.25 Pentaho [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post regarding the new Funding and M&A blog categories, there were a number of announcements over the past few weeks that were not covered individually. Recent funding activity summary: Laszlo Systems, $8M US, Series C (press release) WI Harper Group, General Catalyst Partners, Sofinnova Ventures, Mitsui & Co. Venture [...]

As the open source ‘market’ matures, we are seeing a greater number of funding and M&A (mergers & acquisitions) announcements. To help facilitate access to this type of information for our blog readers, I have added two new categories to this blog – Funding and M&A. The complete list of blog categories is available on [...]

Open-Xchange Closes Venture Funding, Open-Xchange (Press Release) Kernel developers declare GPLv3 dangerous, Linux.com, Joe Brockmeier (Article) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1: Look but Don’t Touch, eWeek, Jason Brooks (Article) Red Flag Linux may be next on IBM’s agenda, Computerworld, James Niccolai (Article) Interview: NIIBE Yutaka, Chairman, Free Software Initiative of Japan, Linux.com, Mayank [...]

Research Looks at How Open Source Software Gets Written, UC Davis (Press Release) Eclipse Dominates Grassroots IDE Survey, Sets Tone for Open-Source Java, eWeek, Darryl Taft (Article) Munich Begins to Switch Windows Out for Linux, CIO Tech Informer, John Blau (Blog) What’s new with the LSB, Ian Murdock’s Web Log, Ian Murdock (Blog) Deconstructing Databases, [...]

Solid Information Technology, which announced solidDB for MySQL in April, released the results of an open source survey yesterday (press release). Solid polled over 200 IT professionals on topics relating to open source adoption at the recent LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The survey found that the greatest obstacles to developing and deploying [...]

Despite Strong Demand, Survey Uncovers Significant Barriers to Adoption of Open Source Databases, Solid (Press Release) Teradata Delivers Linux for Enterprise-Class Data Warehouses, Teradata (Press Release) CollabNet Announces Enterprise Commercial Support, Training and Services for Subversion 1.4, CollabNet (Press Release) Linux lab: GPL clarification needed ASAP, News.com, Stephen Shankland (Article) Debian experiments with funding group [...]

LaVonne Reimer and Stephen Walli are in the process of forming an open source startup, although no details have been made public. Reimer is the the former CEO of Compiere, and prior to that served as the Executive Director of the Open Technology Business Center (OTBC). Stephen Walli is the former Vice President of Open [...]

Pentaho Acquires Weka Project, Pentaho (Press Release) MySQL Expands Telecom Services to Meet Growing Demand, MySQL (Press Release) Project.net Integrates Project and Portfolio Management Application with Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, Project.net (Press Release) OpenBI Introduces OpenQuick Suite Solutions, OpenBI (Press Release) IT Industry Veteran Steve McManus Joins Zenoss Executive Team, Zenoss (Press Release) Is [...]

Red Hat made an announcement yesterday concerning its acquisition of JBoss. The deal closed over 90 days ago and Red Hat was ready to talk specifics about integrating JBoss’ products and services into the Red Hat portfolio. This announcement has two main components: JBoss subscriptions are now available through Red Hat’s global channel partners, providing [...]

Red Hat Introduces JBoss to Its Global Channel Partners; First Integrated Red Hat Application Stack Now Available, Red Hat (Press Release) GroundWork Launches Version 5 of GroundWork Monitor Product Family — Extends Lead in Open Source-Based IT Operations Management, GroundWork Open Source (Press Release) Open Country Joins Open Management Consortium, Open Country (Press Release) OSDL [...]

Government and Industry Leaders form an Open Technology Development Working Group, Open Source Software Institute (Press Release) Debian and Ubuntu: uneasy coexistence, iTWire, Sam Varghese (Article) Open Alternatives to Open Source, Open Source Unleashed, Alex Fletcher (Blog) XML closing the community-code gap, ZDNet, Dana Blankenhorn (Blog)