The 451 Group Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) team would like to wish a safe, healthy and Happy Holidays to our CAOS community. It’s been an exciting year and we look forward to more open source software posts, podcasts, discussions and disruption in 2011.

There was a recent skirmish about open source software in the enterprise regarding a contention that open source is not really used by big business, which was refuted, naturally, by open source vendors. Nevertheless, my experience among not only vendors, but also investors and particularly large enterprise end users, is that open source is typically [...]

It was interesting to see a partnership announcement between Red Hat and Eucalyptus Systems, commercial supporter of the Eucalyptus cloud computing framework. Why so interesting? Mainly because there are several, significant competitive, partnership and technology implications from the deal. First off, we’re been waiting for a more pronounced response from Eucalyptus Systems to OpenStack, the [...]

CPTN Holdings unmasked. Oracle updates MySQL. And more.

Here are CAOS Theory’s top 10 posts of 2010, in terms of page views: 1. Fear and loathing and open core October: Bradley M Kuhn claims that Canonical is about to go open core. We examined the (lack of) evidence. 2. DevOps mixing dev, ops, agile, cloud, open source and business March: Jay introduces our [...]

Google contributes WindowBuilder to Eclipse. Backdoors in OpenBSD? And more.

The ASF resigns from the JCP. Salesforce.com acquires Heroku. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Oracle, Java, the Apache Software Foundation and open source *An update on some open source database and data management players *CorraTech grows with support for open source application alternatives *Red Hat-Makara acquisition analysis and impact *Linux kernel report shows strong support, but what now for Novell? iTunes or direct download (29:31, [...]

The Linux Foundation has just released its annual Kernel Development Report, tracking the amount of changes and contributions to the Linux OS kernel. Similar to last year, there are no real surprises on this year’s report, which provides a good check on who is developing the core of the OS and what they are doing. [...]

The future of Java. Google releases Gingerbread. And more.

New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more.

It is with great interest that we watch Red Hat add in the cloud application management technology of its Makara acquisition to fill out its Cloud Foundatios PaaS offering. We believe Red Hat gains a much needed application managemeint piece for its cloud computing strategy and extension from its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), JBoss [...]

Red Hat acquires Makara. Funding for Abiquo and CloudBees. And more.