Date: 08/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

The fact is no company is as proprietary as Apple is. But at the same time there is a lot of open source development at its edges, and the licensing of that development is moving steadily toward more openness.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=738

Date: 08/08/06     Keywords: database

Even after you go through this process, of course, you may still be in a trap if your database is proprietary, as it often is.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=737

Date: 08/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

Pure peer to peer (p2p) has some fundamental problems in how it scales and operates. What's needed for this to become commercial is a hybrid between p2p and content distribution.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=736

Date: 08/04/06     Keywords: no keywords

Pervasive is going to put its money elsewhere, where it thinks it has a better chance of making a profit. And life goes on.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=735

Date: 08/03/06     Keywords: no keywords

I don't know whether any of today's open source leaders will make it to $1 billion. I suspect a few might.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=734

Date: 08/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

Are there functions, like systems management, which should never go open source? And if that is the case, can open source ever really catch up?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=733

Date: 08/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

What was most interesting to me, however, is that the stack also uses encryption to bypass phone company filters designed to stop VOIP traffic.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=732

Date: 08/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

The idea of re-use seldom comes up in discussions of open source, but perhaps it should.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=730

Date: 07/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

No issue divides the open source community today like Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=729

Date: 07/31/06     Keywords: software, asp, security, web

Fortify Software, which identifies and remediates software vulnerabilities, has contributed its collection of 115 types of software security errors to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a six-year old non-profit with almost 5,000 members whose “mission is to find and fight the causes of insecure software.” The work will become part of OWASP's Honeycomb [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=728

Date: 07/31/06     Keywords: no keywords

So maybe Jay Rosen wants to be the Richard Stallman of journalism. All of which begs the question, who will be its Eric Raymond?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=727

Date: 07/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

The center is doing fine.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=726

Date: 07/28/06     Keywords: no keywords

In a way SourceFORGE is being sourceforged. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about it. Instead of doing either, I think I'll have a talk with the SourceFORGE folks.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=725

Date: 07/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

He who has the gold makes the rules.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=724

Date: 07/26/06     Keywords: crm

SugarCRM has made CRM a horizontal market again, rather than just a set of verticals.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=723

Date: 07/26/06     Keywords: database

The knock on open source databases has always been that it doesn't scale. With this new offering, users can scale from a few megabytes to multiple terabytes, without changing the underlying database structure.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=722

Date: 07/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

Are you part of the complexity?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=721

Date: 07/25/06     Keywords: google

Google has grown so large that its every move is a big headline.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=720

Date: 07/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

"We have to change the way we work," is the way Nick Hellman, the interim director of HIV projects at the Foundation, put it.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=719

Date: 07/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

The group has sought NSF funding before, unsuccessfully. What made the difference this time? It might be the success people inspired by the work had in bringing broadband back quickly after Hurricane Katrina and the Indonesia tsunami.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=718