The current debate about the open core licensing strategy is as tedious as it is predictable. As soon as Jorg Janke published his excellent post on the lessons learned from the “failure” of Compiere’s open source strategy it was inevitable that someone would argue that the reason behind the company’s failure was the open core [...]

Elephants on parade: Hadoop goes mainstream. And more.

Red Hat lays the Foundations for cloud. Funding for Sencha and Nuxeo. And more.

Red Hat reports Q1 report. Funding for Opscode, Zenoss and Calpont. And more.

There was another acquisition involving open source software recently when Consona bought Compiere, but what is perhaps most striking about the deal from an open source software perspective is how little it and the Compiere community mattered in the deal. By most accounts, including that of fellow open source ERP player xTuple CEO Ned Lilly, [...]

The latest 451 Open source strategy Spotlight was published last week with a focus on private cloud comouting software provider Intalio. It is fascinating to observe how Intalio has evolved from being an open source specialist, operating a form of the dual licensing strategy, towards what we have referred to as an Open Inside model [...]

Funding for AlienVault. Compiere and Gear6 acquired. And more.

It’s easy for ‘embedded Linux’ to get lost in a confusing jumble of processors, hardware, devices and software, but there is no doubt the last couple of years have been marked by increased consolidation around mobile and embedded Linux, a trend that is ongoing and one that continues to draw significant players, such as HP [...]

Your chance to change the OSI. Funding for Appcelerator. And more.

Last week Glyn Moody advised open source specialist start-ups to give up on the idea of ever hitting the $1bn revenue barrier. Basing his argument on an observation made by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, Glyn argued that: “all other open source companies really need to stop chasing that $1 billion dream – the idea [...]

Topics for this podcast: *Linaro reinforces traction for mobile and embedded Linux *Open source strategy spotlights: Novell, HP *Riptano makes commercial play with Apache Cassandra *Linux still tops in Top500 Supercomputers iTunes or direct download (26:27, 7.3MB)

VMware standardizes on SUSE Linux. SCO loses again. And more.

The 451 Group has published another open source strategy Spotlight report, this time turning our attention to longtime Linux server vendor Hewlett-Packard, which continues to dedicate resources to Linux and other open source software communities, but which also has a lower profile than others known for their open source contributions. HP has long been a [...]

Another week, another Apple hype cycle, but what is most interesting about Apple’s recent unveiling of the new iPhone 4 was what came with it — iOS, which is being viewed as Apple’s platform play beyond just iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. What’s also interesting is that recently, we’ve been seeing Android hype actually keep [...]

Government approval. A new WebM license. Advantage Ubuntu. And more.

The 451 Group has recently published a Spotlight report focused on Novell’s strategy as it relates to open source software. The report is particularly relevant given speculation that private equity firms might be about to acquire the company and break it up, and takes a look at the importance of open source to Novell beyond [...]

Linaro formed to promote Linux on SoC. Canonical prepares Ubuntu Advantage. And more.

With every Top500 Supercomputing list, we like to check in on Linux, which maintains a dominant position after a relatively fast ascent, primarily at the expense of Unix, over the last several years. One thing that is striking in the latest list is the dominance of generic Linux, which reportedly accounts for more than 80% [...]

SugarCRM and Jaspersoft on Apps.gov. Funding for DeviceVM. And more.