Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: software

In comments attached to last week's note about Windows ISVs the complaint was raised, who cares?You should. Because the value of an operating system to you depends heavily on the software ecosystem that surrounds it.The software ecosystem consists of every program written for a particular piece of software or hardware. These include operating system ports [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=261&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Even with the danger of the SCO case fading, license management is proving to be a vital niche in the open source universe. Proof comes with today's announcement that former Sun chief marketing and strategy officer Mark Tolliver is the new CEO of Palamida, a license compliance service. (The picture is courtesy the University of [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=260&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/29/05     Keywords: software

Some questions to ponder this weekend.When was the last time you found a really exciting, new Windows application, from a start-up or a near start-up? When was the last time you read about a venture capitalist funding some new Windows software developer? I read these kinds of releases all the time in the open source space. [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=259&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: java

Brazil may be the most interesting case study in open source today.It's not just their recent moves to mandate open source use by local governments. It's not just things like their Project Javali, which aims to break Sun's "vendor lock-in" on Java. It's not just the political commitment President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=258

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: java

Brazil may be the most interesting case study in open source today.It's not just their recent moves to mandate open source use by local governments. It's not just things like their Project Javali, which aims to break Sun's "vendor lock-in" on Java. It's not just the political commitment President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=258&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

While I was thinking about this post the other day, I shot off a few questions to Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org's Community Manager, about the issue. He responded after the piece ran, and had a few comments. In my earlier piece, I suggested that the provision requiring contributors to sign a Joint Copyright [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=257

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

While I was thinking about this post the other day, I shot off a few questions to Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org's Community Manager, about the issue. He responded after the piece ran, and had a few comments. In my earlier piece, I suggested that the provision requiring contributors to sign a Joint Copyright [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=257&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: linux

Kaboodle, an open source LAN manager, quietly hit its Release 1.0 milestone last week. For those looking for open source tools to use in the enterprise this is a big deal. There are versions under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. The first two are possible because of WINE compatibility. At its heart this is actually a [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=255

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: linux

Kaboodle, an open source LAN manager, quietly hit its Release 1.0 milestone last week. For those looking for open source tools to use in the enterprise this is a big deal. There are versions under Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. The first two are possible because of WINE compatibility. At its heart this is actually a [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=255&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/26/05     Keywords: software, asp

Just because a piece of software is open source does not mean we are no longer subject to corporate intrigue.David Berlind and this blog's own Joe Brockmeier combine to teach that lesson today. David explains how JasperReports is being turned back into a commercial product. Joe explains a game of chicken between Sun and IBM [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=254

Date: 04/26/05     Keywords: software, asp

Just because a piece of software is open source does not mean we are no longer subject to corporate intrigue.David Berlind and this blog's own Joe Brockmeier combine to teach that lesson today. David explains how JasperReports is being turned back into a commercial product. Joe explains a game of chicken between Sun and IBM [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=254&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

Maybe I'm imagining it, but there seems to be a concerted effort on the part of Sun and OpenOffice.org team members lately to push the meme that IBM should be criticized for its lack of involvement with OpenOffice.org. Techworld.com quotes Sun's Simon Phipps saying "ask IBM why it uses OpenOffice but doesn't contribute to [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=253

Date: 04/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

Maybe I'm imagining it, but there seems to be a concerted effort on the part of Sun and OpenOffice.org team members lately to push the meme that IBM should be criticized for its lack of involvement with OpenOffice.org. Techworld.com quotes Sun's Simon Phipps saying "ask IBM why it uses OpenOffice but doesn't contribute to it." [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=253&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Two weeks ago we reported on the rift between Larry McVoy, who wrote a closed source tool Linus Torvalds himself had begun depending upon, and the open source community. Today the "other shoe" dropped on that story with word that Samba's Andrew Tridgell has released an open source tool for reading BitKeeper repositories called SourcePuller. [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=252

Date: 04/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Two weeks ago we reported on the rift between Larry McVoy, who wrote a closed source tool Linus Torvalds himself had begun depending upon, and the open source community. Today the "other shoe" dropped on that story with word that Samba's Andrew Tridgell has released an open source tool for reading BitKeeper repositories called SourcePuller. [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=252&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/25/05     Keywords: security

Right now open source security is symmetrical. Closed source security is asymmetrical. Who will win?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=251

Date: 04/25/05     Keywords: security

Right now open source security is symmetrical. Closed source security is asymmetrical. Who will win?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=251&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/23/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft's Jim Allchin is out plugging "Longhorn," even though the OS isn't expected to be released for more than another year. Apparently, not content to copy features from the Mac OS and Linux, the new MS mantra ("It just works") is also borrowed from Apple's ad campaigns. In the Fortune piece, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=249

Date: 04/23/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Microsoft's Jim Allchin is out plugging "Longhorn," even though the OS isn't expected to be released for more than another year. Apparently, not content to copy features from the Mac OS and Linux, the new MS mantra ("It just works") is also borrowed from Apple's ad campaigns. In the Fortune piece, [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=249&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 04/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

When an analyst trying to build a business gets calls from the press, it's normal to "give good quote," to try and go along with the reporter's assumptions in hopes of getting called back. The danger is you wind up stringing along controversies that don't exist, and causing havoc in a market that needs sagacity, not self-promotion.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=248