We’ve written before and covered the emulation of open source software development and communities by vendors that are not open source. One prime example is SolarWinds, which recently bucked the bad economy with a successful IPO. By providing low-price, low-friction sales and promoting its community of users that work with its own developers, SolarWinds resembles [...]

Microsoft makes a patent promise. JBoss is certifiable. And more.

Since February 451 CAOS Links Live has been available to follow @caostheory on Twitter. Given the popularity in open source circles of Identi.ca, the microblogging service based on the open source Laconica software, 451 CAOS Links Live is also now available to follow @caostheory on Identi.ca as well. Ping.fm turned out to work only 33% [...]

Ubuntu cloud services. PostgreSQL 8.4. And more.

Venture capital funding for open source vendors was down 50% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year. No great surprise there, but there was some good news as that figures was an increase on $45.4m raised in Q1. According to our preliminary figures, there were 13 announced funding deals in the [...]

There has been no shortage of lively discussion on open source software licenses with recent shifts in the top licenses, perspectives on the licenses or lack of them for networked, SaaS and cloud-based software, increased prominence of a Microsoft open source license and concern over the openness (or closedness, depending on your perspedtive) of the [...]