As we enter the holiday break, the volume of news announcement, media articles, and blog activity, will drop dramatically. Therefore, the daily 451 CAOS Links (and all other blog postings) will be on hiatus until Tuesday, January 2nd. This also will give me the opportunity to focus on the completion of the third CAOS Report (proprietary vendors ‘going open’). Yes, I’ll be writing while the rest of you are in shutdown mode. However, I’m off to Canada and the San Juan Islands later today for a few days of exploration. It’s not all work, all of the time.

We launched the 451 CAOS Theory blog on April 17th, 2006, at LinuxWorld Boston. In the past eight months, we have posted 244 blog entries contributed by eight 451 analysts - myself, Nick Selby, Martin Schneider, Rachel Chalmers, Dennis Callaghan, Christopher Noble, John Abbott, and Nick Patience.

We’ve also built up an impressive daily blog readership, which has been a thrill to me. As an analyst firm, the vast majority of our research is provided to our subscription clients only. The 451 CAOS Theory blog provides us with a public outlet to share some of our insight and provide value to a broader audience, without cannibalizing the core research we are doing for our paying clients.

In January 2007, we will be adding a second full-time open source analyst, who will be a contributor to this blog, among many other research efforts. While I cannot disclose who this new analyst is just yet, many of you will be familiar with him as a regular contributor to ongoing open source coverage. Check back on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007, for the next 451 CAOS Links and the disclosure of our new open source analyst.

Great a great holiday break!