Topics for this podcast: *Licensing buzzes with Google, OSI, virtualization and the cloud *Open source barometer Black Duck sees growth in mobile, healthcare, government *New life for LinuxCare shows renewed vigor for Linux in clouds *Apache Hadoop support old and new with IBM, Datameer iTunes or direct download (27:13, 7.5MB)

Novell Linux revenue down in Q2. The FSF turns its attention to App Store. Google vs the OSI. And more.

Google’s open source programs manager, Chris DiBona has asked the Open Source Initiative to delay consideration of Google’s WebM license, and in doing so has called on the OSI to be more open. Specifically, DiBona said Google “will want a couple of changes to how OSI does licenses” and that he thinks “that OSI needs [...]

Just when you thought open source and its licensing were getting a bit dull (okay, that will probably never happen) … Sure, the GPL is giving up some of its dominance. OEM, embedded, mobile and other expansion areas for open source are keeping open source licenses relevant, as are virtualization and cloud computing, and these [...]

On Thursday, June 3 at 12pm ET we will be holding a webinar to share some of the findings from our recent report ‘Open to Investment, 2010.’ The report is available here, while a summary of the statistics is here. The webinar will contain analysis of venture funding in open-source-related vendors in 2009 based on [...]

What’s missing from WebM? VoltDB launches. The importance of profitability. And more.

Is Google’s WebM open source or not? And why (or more to the point, how) did it take the OSI nearly five months to approve the PostgreSQL license? Open Source Initiative board member, Simon Phipps, declared on Monday that Google’s WebM project “is not currently open source”. It was a statement based on the fact [...]

VMware partners with Google. 20 bidders for Novell. IBM and Pentaho support Hadoop. And more.

LinuxCare, which recently relaunched a new cloud computing-based Linux services business, had represented frankly a lot of the Linux support business, promise and opportunity that never quite lived up to the hype and expectations. LinuxCare, which suffered from lack of leadership and execution, later became Levanta, and we eventually questioned its Linux-only approach in an [...]

Alfresco launches Activiti project. Funding for NorthScale and Zend. And more.

As our 451 colleague Kathleen Reidy, notes, we have published a new report entitled, “Open to Disruption: The Impact of Open Source in Content Management.” Our purpose with this report is to look at the commercial implications of open source in content management. The report goes into a good deal of depth on what is [...]

Interesting news from open source content management vendor Alfresco this morning, which has launched the Activiti business process management project and hired Tom Baeyens, founder and architect of the JBoss jBPM project, and fellow architect Joram Barrez to create it. While the project will be led by Alfresco employees, Activiti is not designed to be [...]

Topics for this podcast: *Open source and cloud players Heroku and Cloudera *Android makes market and buzz gains on iPhone *Sun OpenSSO identity management lives on in ForgeRock *Selling with, rather than to, your open source community iTunes or direct download (30:56, 8.6MB)

CEO change at Mozilla. What went wrong at Sun. And more.

The only thing as interesting and exciting as the reports and headlines on Android topping iPhone in smartphone sales in a recent quarter was the response from Apple, which downlplayed Android’s buzz-generating gains. First off, smartphone commentaries should start with props to Apple for showing the way, but the company continues to leave and arguably [...]

We’ve long wondered what might happen to all of that open source software from Sun Microsystems now that it’s at Oracle? Obviously, some pieces continue to live at Oracle (Java, Solaris, MySQL), but there are a number of open source projects that Oracle has either neglected to talk about or have been overlooked, particularly as [...]

There’s been a stepping up of competition among the Linux vendors, particularly Novell and Red Hat, which both continue to advance their Linux distributions in the latest versions Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Much of the increased competition centers on pushing Linux even further into cloud computing, where it is already [...]

Linagora explores Mandriva acquisition. OpenOffice.org extensions. And more.

Stephen Walli last week published a graphical representation of why it is important for the vendors that lead vendor-led open source projects to separate their community users from their sales pipeline. The post graphically articulates a trend that I have identified in recent conversations with open source-related start-ups: they are less fixated on trying to [...]

SpringSource picks up GemStone. Separating community and customers. And more.