I just published a post about opportunities for cloud-based databases and data warehousing over on our Too Much Information blog, which I thought might be of interest to CAOS Theory readers given the involvement of Greenplum.

Following the recent publication of Open to Investment, the latest CAOS research report, we will be hosting a webinar on Thursday May 14th, from 12pm - 1pm EDT to discuss some of the key findings of the report.
Covering the past, present and future of venture capital investment in open source-related vendors the report contains analysis [...]

Javier Soltero, former CEO of Hyperic, has maintained that the sale of Hyperic to SpringSource was driven by discussion between himself and SpringSource CEO, Rod Johnson, but the fact that the companies shared investors - Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital - no doubt accelerated the deal (and I wonder whether either could have afforded to [...]

This is the one thousandth post to have been published on the 451 CAOS Theory blog, three years and six days since Raven wrote the first post, describing the blog’s raison d’être.
It’s interesting to look back at Raven’s first post as a reminder as to why the CAOS Theory blog was launched and how it [...]

I’ll be heading over to the West coast at the end of the month for a short trip that will take in EclipseCon - including the Open Source Executive Strategy Summit - OSBC, and the Open Source ISV Forum.
It promises to be a busy and interesting trip and I’m looking forward to an intensive week [...]

Next week I’ll be jetting over to Lyon to attend ICT 2008, the European Commission Information Society’s research event for information and communication technologies.
It promises to be a fascinating and lively event and will examine topics such as European Union priorities in ICT research for over €2 billion of funding available in 2009-2010, the major [...]

(Or “freedom of speech won’t feed my children”)
Last month I noted that Matt Asay, one of the highest profile proponents of open source software, had changed his position on the use of proprietary extensions as a means of attracting paying customers to software based on open source code.
Having previously advocated a 100% open source approach, [...]

The 451 Group’s Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service now has a podcast (iTunes or RSS feed).
A month or so ago, I was having a conversation with The 451 Group’s Vice President of Research Services, Simon Carruthers, about ways to expand the offerings of the CAOS Research Service. The CAOS Research Service includes [...]

Today sees the release of our latest CAOS report, Turning the Tables? – The impact of open source on the enterprise database market, which examines - as the subtitle suggests, how much of an impact the open source database projects and vendors have made on the traditional relational database market.
One of the key findings [...]

Matthew Aslett and I are in San Francisco for the next few days at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). We will be moderating a total of three panels this year. Matthew’s panel on the the state of the open source database market is especially interesting, given that we are days away from publishing a [...]

451 CAOS Theory, along with the myriad of other services provided by The 451 Group, are now on hiatus for the rest of the year. We’re all off for winter break / holidays / Christmas (whatever you wish to call it, these days) until January 2nd, 2008. Check back in early January for continued open [...]

2008 could be a very good year for the likes of Compiere and Openbravo if 451 CAOS Theory’s blog stats for this year are anything to go by.
I’ve just been taking a look at the most read stories of the year, and following the usual suspects (Oracle Unbreakable Linux, the Linux desktop, the EC’s attitude [...]

A few weeks ago, we released our fifth 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Report entitled ‘The SMB Market Opportunity - How big are SMBs for open source?.’ In this report, we explore the challenges and conditions that must be met in order for open source software and its vendors to succeed in [...]

As previously mentioned by Raven, today is my first day at The 451 Group and I’ll now be blogging here at 451 CAOS Theory.
For those of you who were subscribers to my previous blog, I’ll be bringing more of the same to 451 CAOS Theory, starting tomorrow with a look at the third quarter open [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Aslett will be joining The 451 Group on October 1st to further advance our open source research efforts. I will be in our London office during early October to work closely with Matt.
Many of you are already familiar with Matt’s work at Computer Business Review (CBR), and his open [...]

In the wake of the VMware IPO and Citrix-XenSource acquisition, it’s pretty clear that virtualization management will become the hot new market. We’re fairly chuffed about that since we’re hard at work on a major report on the sector.
We’d love to get your input. If you’re at an organization that has some virtualization management products, [...]

Earlier this week, we released the fourth CAOS Report (press release) - ‘Managing in the Open - The Next Wave of Systems Management.’

In this report, The 451 Group investigates the impact of open source on the systems management software space. This is a software segment that has been dominated by proprietary software vendors on the [...]

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 (OSCON) is taking place in Portland, Oregon, this week. Portland is my home, but I’m in New York City most of the week for business meetings. Ah, priorities. It takes an important meeting for me to give up my time at OSCON, that’s for sure. I will be at [...]

I’m in San Francisco for the next few days (along with fellow open source analyst, Jay Lyman) for the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) at The Palace Hotel. The 451 Group is the Industry Analyst Sponsor this year. We’ll have a booth in the exhibit area, as we did last year - please stop by [...]

In a few days, I’m headed off to the 2007 Open Source Think Tank event in Napa, CA, hosted by the Olliance Group and DLA Piper. If you’re planning to be at the event, I will have some availability for meetings during the networking sessions and after-hours from Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon. Send me [...]