In early February, I posted a blog entry – “Qlusters loses its open source leader,” about the departure of Qlusters CTO William Hurley (“whurley”). BMC Software issued a statement today concerning Hurley – Open Source Luminary whurley (William Hurley) Joins BMC Software as Architect and Strategist. I’ve had to sit on this news for some [...]

One of the aphorisms in the tech industry is that there’s no money in software development tools. There is usually a grain of truth in conventional wisdom, but after the past couple of days, I am beginning to believe the opposite. My colleague, Rachel Chalmers and I just attended EclipseCon in Santa Clara, CA. I [...]

Sourcefire prices IPO…OpenLogic adds support for Solaris…Krugle offers Eclipse code search plugin…and more…

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XenSource launches global virtualization initiative…O’Reilly joins MySQL AB board of directors…OSBC announces keynote speakers…and more…

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Nearly twenty years after Richard Stallman wrote the first draft of the GNU General Public License, open source has really started to come of age in the enterprise. Industries which do the largest amount of custom development, notably financial services and healthcare, have either adopted open source software stacks outright or have used them as [...]

Oracle contributes TopLink to the Eclipse Foundation…Zend releases updated version of Zend Core…FSF seeks partnerships with hardware vendors…and more…

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Infrastructure management company dbaDirect, in a move similar to Oracle’s play to intercept Red Hat’s enterprise support for its own distribution of Linux, is now supporting the MySQL open source database with dbaDirect’s usual enterprise services that include on-demand technical expertise, patches and upgrades. While Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux announcement last year was no surprise and [...]

In a few days, I’m headed off to the 2007 Open Source Think Tank event in Napa, CA, hosted by the Olliance Group and DLA Piper. If you’re planning to be at the event, I will have some availability for meetings during the networking sessions and after-hours from Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon. Send me [...]

Exadel releases open source code via Red Hat and JBoss…Mindquarry debuts open source competitor to Microsoft Sharepoint…Sun announces open source gaming project…and more…

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Open-Xchange marketing chief Kusnetzky departs…Novell benefits from Microsoft deal…a number of open source bloggers weigh in on ‘what is open?’…and more…

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Exist Global, a Philippines-based software development outsourcing company, announced this week that it has secured venture funding (press release). As part of the funding announcement, the company also announced the hiring of Steve Nathan as CEO. Nathan is a former Sun Microsystems executive from the iPlanet software group. The funding round is being led by [...]

Over the last five years or so, there have been a number of rumors, stories and announcements on pre-loaded desktop Linux from big PC makers that typically get Linux fans excited, then disappointed. Sometimes, it would amount to sending out PCs with a basic OS like FreeDOS or no operating system at all. If the [...]

Novell reports preliminary Q107 financial results…SIPBox becomes NeoPhonetics… continued debate on ‘what is open?’…and more…

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Terascala, a Linux hardware (blades, to be more specific) clustering company, announced yesterday that it had secured $3m in its Series A funding round from Ascent Venture Partners (press release). I spoke with Bill Elliott, Terascala COO, this afternoon, who disclosed that the firm is making use of some open source software to power its [...]