Linus announces Linux 3.0. Attachmate maintains commitment to SUSE Linux. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Smaller PaaS players unite with DotCloud-Duostack deal *Typesafe taps Scala, Akka, open source and devops *Changes continue at Continuent *Future of Open Source Survey debrief *Changes afoot at the OSI *Microsoft moves to support CentOS Linux iTunes or direct download (32:15, 5.5MB)

Open Ocean raises $60m for OSS investments. Citrix mounts Olympus. And more.

It’s coming up on a couple of years since I wrote about the reasonable approach toward open source software adoption put forth by the U.S. Department of Defense, which was ready and willing to use open source, but was not requiring a less-realistic all-open source or only-open source approach. Today, we see that measured consideration [...]

One of the ‘things I wrote down during OSBC’ was this statement from Benchmark EIR, Rob Bearden: “Misalignment between a business model and the community’s tolerance point will never be accepted. This will manifest itself in multiple distributions.” At first glance the statement may seem obvious to anyone who has studied open source-related business strategies [...]

Shuttleworth opens a can of worms. Fedora 15. IBM commits to Hadoop. And more.

One of the ironies of open source over the years has been that the organisation formed to “educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source”, the Open Source Initiative, was itself *perceived to be* something of a closed shop [see the comments for clarification on this point]. That is set to change as [...]

Open Virtualization Alliance launches, Reforming the OSI. IBM targets Hadoop. And more.

Two years ago I published a post entitled “things I wrote down during OSBC”. It tuned out to be surprisingly popular, so I decided to try the same formula again. Just as was the case two years ago these are presented chronologically. I wrote down a lot more than this, to be clear, but these [...]

As previously mentioned, The 451 Group was very pleased to be able to participate in this year’s Future of Open Source Survey. We believe that the results provide critical insight into the wants and needs of end users that will help shape the evolution of vendor business strategies designed to meet the long-term needs of [...]

One of big stories out of the Open Source Business Conference this week was Microsoft’s announced support for the CentOS community Linux distribution, a free clone of RHEL that nonetheless enjoys significant enterprise and cloud computing use, as we’ve covered extensively, including a special report that is currently being updated, in part, with a new [...]

The Future of Open Source. de Icaza launches Xamarin. Funding for Datameer. And more.

Topics for this podcast: *Watching for possible devops deals *New technology, offerings highlight Hadoop *Oracle proposes Hudson as Eclipse project *Red Hat’s latest IaaS and PaaS *Defining open source *Big changes in the Linux and open source landscape *451 Group at OSBC 2011 in San Francisco iTunes or direct download (36:17, 6.2MB)

Google orders an Ice Cream Sandwich, hold the Honeycomb. Funding for WSO2 and Typesafe. And more.

Next Monday, May 16, I will be hosting session at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco focused on NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond. The presentation covers our recently published report of the same name, and provides some additional context on the role of open source in driving innovation in distributed data management. Specifically, the [...]

Andrew C Oliver recently wrote “I think most know by now that a license is insufficient to make something actually open source.” What makes this fascinating is that it involves a director of the Open Source Initiative – the stewards of the Open Source Definition – stating that the Open Source Definition is not enough [...]

I recently wrote about big changes afoot in the Linux market, the topic of a current special report I’m writing. We’ve seen significant changes in the Linux landscape and market in the past 10-15 years — including its enterprise fight and victory over SCO, its rise to dominance in HPC and, more recently, the faster, [...]

EMC launches Greenplum HD. DataStax releases Brisk. And more.

Red Hat makes an OpenShift to PaaS. Oracle proposes to Eclipse Hudson. And more.

Novell sold to Attachmate. Barnes & Noble throws the book at Microsoft. And more.