To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. The Czech Republic team was just three minutes away from qualifying for the knockout stages of EURO 2008 on Sunday before Turkey [...]

ZDNet and its sister sites ran an interesting story yesterday indicating that IBM might be preparing to release its DB2 database under an open source license. If true, it would be a fascinating turn of events that would have a significant impact on the database industry. Unfortunately, it’s not. I was immediately suspicious when reading [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. Greece was the surprise winner of the last European Championships but its participation in this year’s event effectively ended with defeat to [...]

Agenda: * Executive changes at open source vendors * Open source European tour * Suits and suits for GPL * Is mobile the next frontier for open source? iTunes or direct download (31:28, 7.2MB)

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. According to statistics presented by Roberto Galoppini, 2.4% of visitors to SourceForge are from Poland, a statistic which serves its purpose of [...]

Back in October 2007 I wondered whether the reporting of Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading by Becta, the government agency responsible for technology in the education system in the UK, might prove to be a false dawn. It gives me no great pleasure to report that I was right. In May it was [...]

Mobile open source player Funambol is certainly giving us plenty to watch these days with its Affero GPL licensing, its use of ad-supported mobile phone access to email and general bet on mobile open source software. Like an audience watching the tightrope act, we’re observing intently (Funambol translates from the Latin words funis (rope) and [...]

We all know that collaboration is a big part of open source software, but how significant is open source for collaboration and other technologies highlighted at Enterprise 2.0? The 451′s expert collaborative team recently collaborated at the conference, and our own Kathleen Reidy offers some perspective over at the Too Much Information blog. While it [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. Turkey kept its hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of EURO 2008 alive with a last-minute victory over hosts Switzerland last [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. Given that open source software is essentially a communist plot to undermine America and the global software industry (joke) you’d expect Russia [...]

SourceForge CEO resigns. Software Freedom Law Center files more GPL lawsuits. Novell joins Microsoft validation program. (and more)

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Continuing the ongoing discussion about open source software business models, Rich Sharples of Red Hat’s JBoss division weighs in on an issue I have with Savio Rodrigues’s categorization of open source users: namely the fact that it does not take into account the value of the application in question. As Rich points out, Savio’s categorization [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. Sounds like I was fortunate to miss Romania’s borefest with France and although the draw is a good result for Romania, the [...]

I’ve written quite a bit recently about netbooks, MIDs, UMPCs and the general category of sub-notebook/greater-than smartphone, and while I had planned on taking a break from the subject, it keeps coming up. The latest splash in this new form factor pond, where Linux enjoys greater deployment and significant cost and technical advantages, comes from [...]

Last week I asked whether open source vendors face a glass ceiling, prompted by Savio Rodrigues’s suggestion that a pure open source support model will only get vendors so far. While I remain unconvinced at this stage* Savio is in no doubt that such a ceiling exists and has continued his argument with a suggestion [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. The statistics suggest that Austria is the worst teaming competing in EURO 2008, and despite a good performance in the opening game [...]

EnterpriseDB hires new CEO. Pentaho embraces GPL. AddCore moves into open source. (and more)

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Mobile Internet devices (MIDs) have been the focus of much work and talk from chip giant Intel, which says its Atom processor will fit nicely into these smaller devices. In a recent interview with the AP, Intel chief Paul Otellini says MIDs favor Linux. I’ve written previously about the opportunities for Linux in the growing [...]

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in the 16 nations that are competing in the tournament. Switzerland is co-hosting EURO 2008 along with Austria and will be kicking off the tournament with a game against the Czech Republic [...]

Savio Rodrigues has published an interesting post about the adoption of commercial open source software that brings together his thoughts about open source business models and suggests that commercial open source vendors may be heading for a glass ceiling. As Savio puts it: “OSS lowers marketing, distribution, and sales costs. And yes, OSS is a [...]