Linden Lab To Open Source Second Life Software, Linden Lab (Press Release) Integration Announces Open Source Availability for the EZMac Family of Products, Integration Associates (Press Release) Microsoft, Novell and Unintended Consequences, LinuxInsider, Dana Gardner (Article) Free software may kill some software firms. So what?, Free Software Magazine, Wouter Verhelst (Article) MS Fights to Own [...]

Linden Lab, creator of the online virtual world, Second Life, announced today that it is has open sourced the client software (press release) for accessing Second Life. The source code has been released using the GPL v2 open source license. This move fits in with Linden Lab’s focus on user-generated content. Open sourcing the client [...]

Research and Markets: It is Predicted That in China, Linux Market (Both Server and Client) Will Grow with an Annual Rate of 34%. the Client-Side Share Growth Will Be Comparatively Faster, Research and Markets (Press Release) Concurrent Invites You to Join Its Second Quarter FY ’07 Earnings Conference Call on Friday, January 26, 2007 at [...]

IONA Technologies to Announce Fourth Quarter 2006 Earnings Results January 25, 2007, IONA Technologies (Press Release) Fonality Releases trixbox 2.0: Leading Asterisk-Based Application Platform for Businesses and Integrators, Fonality (Press Release) Building a Sustainable Open Source Business, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Amit Pandey (Article) Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses, DesktopLinux.com, Steven J. [...]

Digium Unveils New Software Appliance AsteriskNOW, Digium (Press Release) MySQL is on track with new storage engine, Computerworld, Jeremy Kirk (Article) Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story, O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly (Blog) Mozilla’s 2005 revenue: $52.9 million, News.com Open Source and Standards Blog, Stephen Shankland (Blog) A hypothetical New Year’s resolution list for the [...]

EnterpriseDB expands Asia Pacific operations, EnterpriseDB (Press Release) OpenVZ Virtualization Software Available for Sun UltraSPARC T1 Processor, The OpenVZ Project (Press Release) IDG’s InfoWorld Names Top Technologies Impacting IT in 2007, International Data Group (Press Release) CIO study finds Linux ready for prime time, Computerworld, Bryan Betts (Article) Open-Source Predictions for 2007, Red Herring, Falguni [...]

In my blog post before the holidays, I briefly mentioned that we were adding a second full-time open source analyst to The 451 Group. I’d like to introduce Jay Lyman, although for many of you, Jay will be a familiar name in the open source world already. Jay’s focus at The 451 Group will be [...]