451 CAOS Theory 
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Jay Lyman
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Recent posts by Jay Lyman:
- July 1, 2009: As license issues swirl, a new CAOS report
There has been no shortage of lively discussion on open source software licenses with recent shifts in the top licenses, ... - June 30, 2009: Red Hat cloud program needs partners, punctuation
Red Hat announced a new cloud certification and partner program. I've been expecting to see and hear more from Red ... - June 26, 2009: CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.06.26
Topics for this podcast: *Intel makes latest Moblin move with Nokia *Sonatype building commercial software, strategy around Apache Maven *OpenLogic sees growth, changing ... - June 23, 2009: Moblin as the middle man
Is it a phone, is it a PC? A netbook or MID? It's Moblin and if Intel has its way, ... - June 18, 2009: Mobile open source and the rest-of-the-market opportunity
As we prepare to publish a new, special CAOS report on open source software licensing, I thought it might be ... - June 12, 2009: CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.06.12
Topics for this podcast: *Code consolidation as SourceForge scoops up Ohloh *Has open source won the enterprise battle? What now? *Continued clouds for ... - June 8, 2009: The incredible, expandable Linux netbook
My Acer A1 netbook that I purchased three months ago has already had four operating systems installed and run on ... - June 4, 2009: Open source clicking the channels
We continue to see signs that open source software is growing beyond its enterprise footprint as more resellers, service providers, ... - May 29, 2009: SourceForge scoops up Ohloh
SourceForge, the venerable open source repository and vendor, just got a shot in the arm by agreeing to acquire the ... - May 26, 2009: Cisco settles, but why did we go here?
Although we did hear some battle alarms when the FSF sued networking and IT giant Cisco late last year, others ... - May 19, 2009: Microsoft realigning closer to open source
Microsoft is involved in open source software again, most recently continuing its realignment on open source by taking a position ... - May 15, 2009: CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.05.15
Topics for this podcast: *Open source among M&A pickup *SugarCRM – new pricing, strategy and CEO *Debating what is or is not an ... - May 8, 2009: Nagios fork - commercial growing pains, commercial interests
Open source eyes are watching the latest fork, this time Icinga, a new offshoot of the widely-used open source monitoring ... - May 4, 2009: SpringSource-Hyperic not so open source, not so bad
There's quite a bit of discussion about SpringSource's annnounced acquisition of Hyperic, with all kinds of speculation on SpringSource's competitive ... - May 1, 2009: CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.05.01
Topics for this podcast: *Oracle-Sun roundup on open source *Canonical's Ubuntu 9.04 hits servers, PCs, netbooks *New cloud plays look to open source *Is ... - April 30, 2009: The ODF story - one year later
My how time flies when it comes to standards battles. This week brought a flurry of news, issues and opinions ... - April 23, 2009: Some interesting firsts for cloud OS
One thing that seems clear in cloud computing right now -- the combination of operating system, hypervisor, clustering, applications and ... - April 20, 2009: Oracle buys Sun, but does it buy open source?
The big news to kick off this week was Oracle's announced acquisition of Sun Microsystems. There is already a lot ... - April 17, 2009: CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.04.17
Topics for this podcast: *CAOS 11 - Open to Investment *CollabNet out with new TeamForge 5.2 *Memcached and MySQL appliances abound iTunes or direct ... - April 15, 2009: Open source tunes into the channel
A new effort was announced by prominent open source software vendors -- Red Hat and charter members Alfresco, EnterpriseDB, Ingres, ...
Recent comments by Jay Lyman:
- June 9, 2009: The incredible, expandable Linux netbook
I burned to USB and ran an early version (like day one or two)...
- June 9, 2009: The incredible, expandable Linux netbook
thanks for the tip. this is what i like about being able to try...
- June 9, 2009: The incredible, expandable Linux netbook
been wanting to try puppy linux, maybe this would be the way to do...
- May 20, 2009: Microsoft realigning closer to open source
Thanks for weighing in James, I think the acceptance that Microsoft has changed combined with...
- April 15, 2009: Neither free as in speech, nor free as in beer
It's interesting to watch and hear what the biggest drivers of open source software...
- April 13, 2009: I'm guilty of getting XP netbooks, but I run Linux
You're right FreeBooteR, I think my original post and some of the comments indicate that...
- April 6, 2009: Netbooks forward or backward, Linux or Windows
You're correct that I don't do a whole lot to practically define a netbook...
- March 21, 2009: Linux and open source no puff in the clouds
Fair point, botchagalupe, We do note in our report, Cittio has had its difficulties dealing...
- March 18, 2009: Linux and open source no puff in the clouds
Thanks for adding some additional thoughts Thorsten. I updated the post after our talk,...
- March 13, 2009: TomTom Linux impact light hit so far
By my logic and reality and history, SCO got blown out of the water....
