My background is in IT journalism with a specialism in networking technology, I've had stints in industry working with the technology for real and I've worked as an analyst, but today I have a wide brief within the 451 Group sticking my fingers in numerous pies.

For more information see Christopher Noble's bio.

Recent posts by Christopher Noble:

• July 17, 2006: Ohloh – offering analysis of open source projects
  A new site www.ohloh.net popped up on people's radars today and was promptly Slashdotted to death, although it is now ...
• April 18, 2006: Ellison’s case against open source business models is compelling – or is it?
  In the FT interview mentioned by Raven below Oracle CEO Larry Ellison weighs in on the twin topics of software ...
• April 7, 2006: Learning from Port 25
  I’m not here to bash Microsoft. MS bashing bores me. But there’s something not quite right about the company’s new ...
• April 3, 2006: Potential JBOSS acquirers like product, hate the model.
  A nice little interview CNET interview with JBOSS CEO Marc Fleury casts some light on how disjunctions between business models ...
• April 3, 2006: Is it secret? Is it safe?
  It was tempting to make my first post here about the alleged inability of enterprise CIOs to distinguish between code ...

Recent comments by Christopher Noble:

• December 8, 2007: Low standards
  The interesting clause in all that to me is: "Though P members are required...
   
• April 18, 2007: Stuart's new gig
  One interesting issue that may need consideration. Is there a risk of the collaborating...
   
• May 17, 2006: AJAX and Java frameworks
  Adobe's Apollo stuff look's interesting, though I haven't examined in detail - see http://news.google.com/news?q=adobe%20apollo&sa=N&tab=wn...
   
• May 16, 2006: Where the GPL Fails
  I've no doubt that the FSF's hackles would be raised at the idea of...
   
• April 21, 2006: Pentaho and Upsell
  I think what we are seeing is the establishment of a continuum of approaches...
   
• April 21, 2006: Oracle-Ubuntu?
  I know what you are saying, but I don't think that the GPL should...
   
• April 19, 2006: Oracle-Ubuntu?
  OK. Here’s my take. I can see absolutely no reason for Oracle to go...
   
• April 18, 2006: Ellison's case against open source business models is compelling – or is it?
  Yes, I was wondering that - the logical conclusion from his comments on Apache...
   
• April 13, 2006: The Open Source Leader?
  You pose an interesting question Raven, in fact, if you think about it, the...
   
• April 4, 2006: Is OpenSparc all about Linux?
  I don't really buy it. Why does open-sourcing (and I haven't looked at the...