Time is flying by so fast, it sure doesn’t seem like it was last year I was blogging about how Android is for real. Well, let me reiterate … Android is for real. The reason I say that and stress that is despite its success, we see a variety of legal threats, accusations and actual [...]

It looks like it’s time again to ponder on Red Hat’s ability to (nearly) make $1bn in annual revenue and wonder why open source has not produced more billion dollar success stories. Matt Asay doubts whether there will ever be another pure play open source company with $1bn in revenues. I would go further and [...]

“the trends appear to be moving away from control and back toward community and collaborative development, which is why The 451 Group has advised that established vendors that rely on controlling open source development projects need to evaluate how they might be able to transition to more collaborative development practices and permissive licensing” The 451 [...]

Red Hat grows 20%+. Google withholding Honeycomb source code. And more.

Paranoid Android. Canonical and Gnome. A new OSI. And more.

One of the primary proof-points of the success of open source has been its adoption by previously proprietary software vendors. In February 2007 The 451 Group’s CAOS practice released its third report, Going Open, which examined the increasing adoption of open source licensing by traditionally-licensed software companies and captured the industry best-practices to ensure a [...]

As an industry analyst, I am always looking toward the future — mostly based on conversations and experiences with open source vendors and, increasingly, customers and end users. Still, to get the most accurate prediction and picture of the future, it is essential to check these ideas, theories, trends and with a larger pool of [...]

Recent news that Linux vendor Red Hat is changing the way it releases code, described as ‘obfuscating’ or worse by some FOSS advocates, brings up an important discussion of complying not only wiith the letter of open source software licenses, norms and practices, but complying with the spirit of open source. However, I’m going to [...]

Novell-Attachmate deal delayed. Microsoft re-thinks Marketplace license demands. And more.

Digia gets Qt. VMware makes waves. Rackspace launches OpenStack support. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Advantec switches to open source to deliver HR as a service *Erlang Solutions solves devops problems with open source programming *art of defence and Qualys open source security projects *EnterpriseDB benefits from focus on PostgreSQL community *Puppet Labs steps up commercial play with Puppet Enterprise iTunes or direct download (26:42, 4.6MB)

Novell reports Q1 results, support for LibreOffice. Boxee raises funding. And more.

The emergence of license management as a primary issue among enterprise cloud computing users, customers and providers was reinforced this week when the DMTF announced its plans to study and address a need for software licensing standards in virtualized and cloud computing IT environments. We first saw the prominence of license management in today’s enterprise [...]