Topics for this podcast *Latest release and support for OpenStack, Austin code release *Development and devops consolidation continue with CollabNet-Codesion *Funding for a number of open-source-focused players *Open core, Canonical and the ongoing discussion *OTRS provides open source helpdesk and service management iTunes or direct download (27:08, 7.3MB)

Funding for Appcelerator, Riptano and Nexenta. Oracle’s claims against Google. And more.

Cloudera raises $25m. OpenStack goes to Austin. And more.

We continue to see evidence that open source software is helping vendors expand and grow globally. The latest announcement from French BPM vendor BonitaSoft, which is establishing U.S. offices in Boston and San Francisco, is a prime example. We covered BonitaSoft’s expansion and approach in July, which leverages more than 300,000 downloads of the software [...]

Funding for Revolution Analytics. Canonical and open core. And more.

This is an updated version of a post that was originally published in July 2009. It has been updated in response to ongoing confusion about open core licensing. There has been a significant amount of interest in the open core licensing strategy since Andrew Lampitt articulated it and its benefits for combining open source and [...]

Bradley M Kuhn published an interest blog post at the weekend explaining why he believes Canonical is about to go down the open core licensing route and heavily criticising the company for doing so. My take on the post is that it is the worst kind of Daily Mail-esque fear mongering and innuendo. Not only [...]

Topics for this podcast: *Open source deal analysis: Black Duck-Ohloh, Puppet-MCollective *Oracle and open source brings future and forks *VC for FOSS down in Q3 *Devops and its connection to open source iTunes or direct download (27:44, 7.5MB)

The future of the JCP. A new Mozilla CEO. And more.

The Linux Foundation has released some survey findings as it hosts its End User Summit. We agree with many of the findings, and discuss our take below. But we also wonder more about which version of Linux these large enterprises are using for their own infrastructure, for cloud computing and for the technologies and services [...]

It’s taken me a bit of time to get around to answering Alan Shimel’s perspective that I am wrong about Open Source 4.0 but I’ve been busy, amongst other things, writing the CAOS report that provides the evidence to backup my theory that commercial open source is shifting away from single vendor open source projects [...]

IBM joins Oracle in OpenJDK harmony. A herd of Hadoop announcements. And more.

We’re a long way from SourceForge, which used to be the closest thing to a single repository for open source software. From a few years ago when we first chronicled the changing locale of open source software to the more recent state of open source code, project and community destination, we’ve seen a dramatic change [...]

Patents! Patents! Patents! Canonical’s perfect 10. And more.

Venture capital funding for open source software-related vendors fell 38% in the third quarter, following three consecutive quarters of positive growth. UPDATE – To put this is some sort of perspective, Venture Beat reports that Q3 was the lowest quarter for VC investments in any field since 2Q09 – UPDATE According to our preliminary figures, [...]

Microsoft sues Motorola. Oracle says no to LibreOffice. Time to fork Java? And more.

Is the JCP going the way of OpenOffice.org? Nagios trademark spat. And more.