Appcelerator raises funding. NetBeans goes off the Rails. And more.

Here we go again. Apple is not only leaving opportunity for more open alternatives, it is dismissing the competition, which it apparently thinks either does not or should not exist. While Apple may be calling its Android-based competition vapor, bizarre or otherwise unmagical, we nonetheless are getting the same signals we did when Android arrived [...]

VMware grows 41%. Evidence of Java infringement disputed. And more.

The presentation of North Bridge Ventures’ Future of Open Source survey has long been one of the highlights of the Open Source Business Conference, keeping attendees up to date with the views of open source users and vendors alike, and providing details about the trends that will shape open source in the future. The 451 [...]

Topics for this podcast: *Black Duck update, latest acquisition Olliance Group *New growth and closed source add-on plans for 10gen *VC investment for open source vendors up in 2010 *Open source profitability discussed *Is cloud computing opening up? iTunes or direct download (24:49, 4.3MB)

The OSI and FSF unite against CPTN. Appcelerator acquires Aptana. And more.

We’ve already identified the significance of open source software to cloud computing, based on the cloud stacks from large IaaS, PaaS and other providers, on the most popular projects used for public, private and hybrid clouds and on the traction of key open source pieces such as Linux, Xen, KVM, Apache Tomcat, Hadoop, PHP, Ruby [...]

It’s good to see Mark Hinkle has a new open source-related blog (The Fountainhead) although I was somewhat amused by his first post, Open source status report reveals good health and profits. It wasn’t so much the relative health of open source, which is supported by his list of open source-related statistics, but the reference [...]

Funding for OpenGamma. Riptano becomes OpenStax. And more.

Bid for Novell patents still on. Google drops H.264. And more.

“Matt Aslett says only Red Hat can survive in a post-apocalyptic commoditzed wasteland”, comments Alan Shimel. I’m pretty sure I didn’t. What I did do was describe the conundrum that I believe is discouraging venture capital investment in open source distributors. Specifically, when we talk about “open source distributors” we are focused specifically on companies [...]

When the figures for Q3 showed venture capital funding for open source software-related vendors declined 38% in the third quarter I all-but abandoned my prediction that venture funding in 2010 would match the levels seen in 2009. At that stage it looked like we would have to see a rapid increase in funding in the [...]

Black Duck acquires Olliance Group. Funding for Zend and PHP Flog. And more.

Matt Asay’s recent article in The Register If you open source an old market, are you doomed to fail? highlights the need for open source specialist vendors to innovate, as well as commoditize. This is an issue that has been discussed regularly by CAOS practice – most recently in our Control and Community report into [...]

Discussing the open source and commercial drivers of the NoSQL database market. On our Too Much Information blog.

Topics for this podcast: *Our preview of open source highlights for 2011 *Progress spins off open source middleware company FuseSource *Sonatype Professional highlights Apache Maven commercialization *Neo Technology updates Neo4j open source graph database *2011 to be year of Linux in cloud computing iTunes or direct download (23:48, 4.1MB)

Salesforce.com acquires DimDim. Sourcefire acquires Immunet. Synga acquires Flock. And more.

We have had a couple of queries this week regarding the open source business strategy framework we have used for the last two years or so in our analysis of open source-related business strategies. The framework has evolved over time based on changing strategies, our research, and feedback from clients (and non-clients), but the last [...]

It’s time for our annual outlook on Linux for the new year, and after spending the last few years highlighting non-desktop Linux in 2008, the range of Linux in 2009 and hidden Linux in 2010, they will all be coming together in 2011, which will be the year of Linux in cloud computing. This is [...]

A selection of my favourite CAOS blog posts of 2010.