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Topics for this podcast: * MuleSource, Progress and SpringSource stir open source in SOA * Terracotta grows JVM clustering with open source * European perspectives on open source * Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux gets an update iTunes or direct download (31:40, 7.3 MB)

A busy week for Sun includes new product releases and an annual shareholders meeting. Microsoft tries to unseat open source with BizSpark for entrepreneurs. Who is making money from open source? Obama: Open source President? And more.

For all the positive steps taken by Microsoft in relation to open source in recent years it is hard to escape the feeling that the company’s senior executives still just don’t get it. Steve Ballmer admitted as much during a visit to Australia this week: “I don’t really understand their strategy. Maybe somebody else does. [...]

Sun Microsystems always seems to be forced to defend itself, whether it is the company’s ongoing strategy amid dimmed revenue and earnings or its participation in open source. As one who recently considered the fate of a somewhat weakened Sun, I’d also like to highlight a recent series of promising technologies and efforts — dominated [...]

I wrote yesterday that Christensen’s law of Conservation of Attractive Profits could be used to explain why open source vendors are increasingly turning to hybrid development and licensing strategies to generate revenue from open source. Before I could think about doing so Arjen Lentz wrote a comment that did a lot of the explaining for [...]

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with Juanjo Hierro from the Morfeo Project, a Spanish community of open source communities set up to speed up the development of Service Oriented Architectures-related software standards and create business opportunities for local suppliers. Hierro explained that the Morfeo Project is based on “The Law of Conservation of Attractive [...]

I wanted to write an Election Day blog to coincide with the presidential contest playing out in the U.S. today, but I must admit to some apprehension. You see, like many in the tech industry, I have seen the predominately negative reaction of mixing politics and technology. I was therefore not too surprised to see [...]

Open-Xchange raises Series B funding. The FSF enables Wikimedia’s potential move to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The “Bilski” decision and software patents. Mindtouch reports revenue growth. And more.

There has been a lot of talk recently about the difference in attitudes towards open source projects and open source vendors in the US compared to Europe. As previously mentioned the debate was triggered by write-ups of conversations at the Open Source Think Tank from Mark Radcliffe and Larry Augustin. Tarus Balog, Fabrizio Capobianco, Gianugo [...]