There is much excitement this week (understandably) about the formation of the Document Foundation and the LibreOffice fork of Openoffice.org. Alan Bell sees correlation with the previous fork of Joomla from Mambo and has illustrated the potential impact that forking a project can have with a Google Trends chart, where Mambo is the blue line, [...]

Document Foundation forms around LibreOffice. And more.

We are pleased to present our latest CAOS special report, The Rise of Devops, a collaboration with the 451 Group’s Infrastructure Computing in the Enterprise (ICE) service. The report came about as we continued to encounter evidence that enterprise application development and enterprise application deployment and IT operations were being pushed together. What we found [...]

Red Hat’s Q2. Novell acquisition delay. And more.

There’s a thunderous battle brewing in the enterprise IT market and it’s all about Linux. The battle brings new names to the fight as well, from the largest of cloud providers Oracle, Amazon and VMWare to smaller upstarts tuning Linux specifically for cloud computing and its users, such as the hoster and service provider-oriented CloudLinux. [...]

Oracle launches Unbreakable Kernel, updates MySQL and Java plans. And more.

Ever since Oracle introduced its Unbreakable Linux support program in late 2006 there have been doubts about whether the company could continue to maintain compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Doubts have increased recently following Red Hat’s decision to cut support for Xen in favour of the KVM virtualization technologies it acquired along with Qumranet, [...]

We must say this about Oracle and its moves (or lack thereof) with OpenSolaris, it finally ended all of the second-guessing, wondering and handwringing of Solaris-or-Linux, OpenSolaris-or-not, Unix-or-Linux that characterized the OS story at Sun Microsystems when it rolled out the open source version of Solaris in 2005. Now that Oracle has largely ended support [...]

Novell is going to pieces. But who will pick them up? And more.

Two of the themes that have risen to the surface in the open source blogosphere in recent week are innovation, and the apparent lack of it when it comes to open source; and participation, and the continued lack of it when it comes to corporate contributions to open source projects. The H recently asked why [...]

Google Code open to all. Funding for Joyent and Sonatype. And more.

Apple got lots of attention when it opened up a bit recently — allowing third-party tools to develop applications for its devices and disclosing its App Store guidelines publicly, a move that we and many others applaud. While it got less attention, Google also opened up a bit more by allowing all OSI-approved open source [...]

Delayed reactions to Oracle vs Google. Liferay EE 6. CouchOne Mobile. And more.

We continue to see more evidence of the themes we discuss in our latest CAOS special report, Seeding the Clouds, which examines the open source software used in cloud computing, the vendors backing open source, the cloud providers using it and the impact on the industry. First, as usual, we are seeing consistencies between our [...]

Red Hat appoints public policy chief. Funding for VoltDB. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Open source seeding the clouds *Canonical’s cloud subscription pivot *Hypertable steers commercial route for NoSQL database *Implications of Oracle’s Java lawsuit iTunes or direct download (25:07, 6.9MB)

SLES for VMware. Red Hat for Makara? Controversy for OpenStack. And more

Open World Forum is only a few weeks away and once again The 451 Group will be represented at the event in Paris. On the morning of September 30 I’ll be taking part in the Open Analysts summit: The 2010 barometer of Open Source, along with Roberto Galoppini, James Governor from Red Monk, Jeffrey Hammond [...]

It’s been interesting to see how many people have picked up on the concept of open source 4.0 especially since it was ignored when I first made reference to it over eighteen months ago. A little bit of flattery goes a long way, and referring to it this time as potentially the golden age of [...]