SpringSource makes progress. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.

We continue to see signs that open source software is growing beyond its enterprise footprint as more resellers, service providers, system integrators and other channel players are starting and expanding their open source use, reliance and offerings. It wasn’t that long ago that we talked about open source tuning into the enterprise and midmarket channels [...]

Earlier this week Infoworld published an article entitled “the fight over open source leeches”, which I described as “a good summary from InfoWorld of the issues related to (lack of) corporate contributions.” That doesn’t necessarily mean that I agree with the underlying theme of the article: that non-contributing open source users are damaging the commercial [...]

Cloudera lands funding. SourceForge acquires Ohloh. Novell reports Linux growth. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory Cloudera shows signs of progress GigaOM reported that Cloudera raised $6m Series B funding from Accel and Greylock and is now looking beyond web applications to wider enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Cloudera also announced its first certification [...]

Last week I asked the question, if open source has won, then where do we go from here? A number of different answers were forthcoming to the two parts of the question from various blogs and Twitterers so I thought it was worth bringing them together in a follow-up post: Has open source won? I [...]