Adobe to acquire Day Software. Gnome contributors. Oracle bad, Oracle good. And more.

One of the issues that has arisen from the ongoing debate about the open core licensing strategy is the continuing confusion about open core compared to the use of open source components in a larger proprietary product – such as IBM’s use of Apache within WebSphere. To some people there is no difference between the [...]

New projects. Old arguments. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *OSCON conference highlights and impressions *Rackspace and NASA open source more of cloud computing *Open core debate du jour *Open source motors Rhomobile’s multi-smartphone development software iTunes or direct download (27:39, 7.6MB)

The post-OSCON lull. In alphabetical order.

In the first part of this post I discussed the underlying division that drives the debate about open core, and the futility of arguing about what constitutes an “open source company” without any relevant definition. Since then Monty Widenius has proposed a definition that would exclude any company that does not produce open source software [...]

The creation and implications of Openstack. Yet more core. And more.

The open source and cloud computing worlds were simultaneously abuzz with today’s announcement of OpenStack, a new open source cloud computing project that represents roughly two-thirds of Rackspace’s own cloud computing infrastructure, which is now licensed under the Apache License 2.0, with some NASA Nebula, also open source under the Apache 2.0, added in. We [...]

Apple has finally responded to the issues with the antenna of its latest iPhone 4, but I can’t help but wonder whether this all could have been prevented if Apple the company and iPhone the product were nearly as open as much of the open source software that runs the popular device? We often have [...]

SugarCRM. Funding for EnterpriseDB and Morphlabs. Even more core. And more

The debate about the open core licensing strategy continued last week while I was enjoying a week off. However, like Carlo Daffara, I was unable to keep my mind completely off the topic and as I dug the allotment one afternoon I found myself pondering why it is that the topic continues to be such [...]

There are signals of continued problems and dysfunction — namely lack of support, organization and communication — in the OpenSolaris community. This follows on a deterioration of the OS leadership and support since Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, including the elimination of OpenSolaris CDs, one of the things that made the open source version of Solaris [...]

More core. Open source mapping. Sugar 6. And more.

Venture capital funding for open source software-related vendors increased 11.5% in the second quarter, the third consecutive quarter of positive growth following a 6% rise in 4Q09 and a 38% increase in 1Q10. According to our preliminary figures, OSS-related vendors raise $141.7m in Q2, compared to $127.1m a year ago. There were 21 deals in [...]

There is renewed and meaningful discussion going about open core with several good insights and arguments: Simon Phipps, Mark Radcliffe, Stephen O’Grady and our own Matt Aslett to name a few. Still, when we consider the various people and sides arguing for and against pure open source, open core or something in between, I wonder [...]

Funding for Eucalytus and Moodlerooms. SkySQL offers support for MySQL. And more.

One of the reasons I described the current debate about open core as futile is that there seems to be no hope of it ever reaching conclusion. This is partly because, as Stephen O’Grady notes, the anti-open core brigade have not put forward any potential remedies. Stephen argues that this is because there are no [...]

I’ve written before about all the things that go into a trend we and others are describing as ‘DevOps.’ The subject of a coming 451 Group report, DevOps at its heart represents the intersection and integration of enterprise software development and enterprise software deployment, a.k.a. IT operations. To more closely examine the topic and gather [...]