UPDATE: The final vote is in and a winner has been declared, with Matt Asay and his arguments for the GPL taking the prize. You can see the debate or follow links to the other judges’ votes and thoughts here. This is my assessment as a judge of the recent open source license debate held [...]

Novell reports Linux revenue up 22%. GPLv2 in decline. And more.

Jay has already provided a good overview of the debate related to the apparent decline in the usage of the GPLv2. I don’t intend to cover the same ground, but I did want to quickly respond to a statement made by Matt Asay in his assessment of the reasons for and implications of reduced GPLv2 [...]

Code scanning and management vendor Black Duck reports the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) now dipping below 50% share of open source software. While we already knew that GPLv2 was somewhat in decline from its far greater share of open source code over the last 5-10 years, it is useful to know what pool [...]

We reported recently on Red Hat’s revenue growth and deferred revenue. One of the things I have been looking at recently is the slowdown in Red Hat’s growth in recent years, and the opportunities that the company has to improve that growth. For some perspective it is worth noting that while Red Hat’s revenue has [...]

Terracotta acquires EHCache. SpringSource launches Cloud Foundry. And more.

I recently attended Open Source World, concurrent with Cloud World in San Francisco and naturally, a good place to converse on and consider the intersection of open source and cloud computing and what it means for vendors, customers and the software. I found a general consistency among views on this, but did hear some surprising [...]

Peter Fenton’s open source investment tips. Boxee raises $6m. And more.

Day Software’s chief marketing officer, Kevin Cochrane has recently been tweeting lyrical @kevinc2003 on Day’s business model as it applies to open source software. In short, while the company’s web content management software is not open source, Day Software makes use of and contributes to a number of community open source projects, such as Apache [...]

Red Hat is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of its initial public offering. An anniversary to be proud of for Red Hat, but one that has given The VAR Guy pause for thought about the relative success of open source in the past 10 years. “Would anyone have predicted that no additional open source companies [...]

Eric Barroca, CEO of Nuxeo, has published an interesting take on commercial open source business strategies, highlighting that vendors that treat community edition products like a free demo are failing to make the most of open source. The key themes of Eric’s post have been discussed before (although his analysis is no less valuable or [...]

VMware acquires SpringSource. Doug Cutting joins Cloudera. And more.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … another blockbuster open source software acquisition, this time virtualization leader VMware looking to the future, and seeing itself in need of a more integrated, application-centric position. That position, according to more than $420 million in cash and stock from VMware, apparently [...]

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Monty Widenius dissects MySQL’s dual license. Intuit moves to the EPL. And more.

As well as contributing to the CAOS research practice here at The 451 Group I am also part of the information management team, with a focus on databases, data caching, CEP, and – from the start of this year – data warehousing. I’ve covered data warehousing before but taking a fresh look at this space [...]

The action continues around Linux and open source in the embedded software space, where this week we are hearing that MIPS Technologies, a provider of processor technology for a range of networking, mobile, consumer and other devices, is open sourcing its port of the Linux-based Android OS software. MIPS announced its port of Android, a [...]

OIN offers cash for patents. CentOS crisis averted. Microsoft denied GPL violation. And more.