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Open Source Weblog: June 2006 Archives
Note to Yankee - ever heard of Miracle Linux?
June 30, 2006
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio has been waxing lyrical on the potential for Oracle to enter the Linux business and has suggested that the company may choose to acquire a Linux distribution.
"Unless they have a secret lab somewhere and they've been building and testing a complete stack for the past two years, they need to buy into the space this year," she told TechWeb.
The thing is though, Oracle has been doing precisely that, and it hasn't made much of a secret about it.
Red Hat posts good results, gets sued for patent infringement
June 29, 2006
Something of a good news/bad news day for Red Hat, which announced quarterly revenue up 38% year-on-year, only to find itself served with a patent infringement lawsuit.
Why would anyone invest in open source?
June 28, 2006
As it turns out, the answer to that is “Why not?” according to three VCs assembled at the OSBC event yesterday, including representatives from Wellington, Mayfield and Index. All three might be considered open source friendly, but they are still not going to throw their money away, and all three made compelling arguments for investing in open source.
Microsoft's CodePlex and Phipps's Software Market 3.0
June 27, 2006
It's been a busy morning at the OSBC Europe conference in London. So busy, in fact, that I've got dragged away having been distracted by all things Microsoft: the launch of CodePlex, the continued importance of interoperability, and the wrath of the European Commission to be precise.
Q&A: Ten minutes with Ron Hovsepian
June 23, 2006
Novell's newly appointed chief executive officer has been busy with a series of press interviews and CBR was able to get its ten minutes or so earlier today. Read on for details of the boardroom coup that saw him replace Jack Messman this week, as well as future acquisition and strategy plans.
Hyperic joins the OMC - you heard it here first
As Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero recently revealed on CBR's Open Source Weblog the open source systems management vendor has joined the Open Management Consortium.
Microsoft versus open source - in pictures
Via Slashdot, here's a map depicting the current software wars between Microsoft and open source software. It's a pretty nice way of looking at it, and succinctly demonstrates the number of fronts on which Microsoft is battling.
Hovsepian in, Messman out at Novell
June 22, 2006
When Novell's president and COO, Ron Hovsepian, cancelled a trip to the UK this week I figured he had better things to do than meet with me. I suppose being named as CEO of Novell as part of a boardroom coup counts as that.
Corel sheds light on ODF support - and the lack of it
June 21, 2006
Yesterday I had the chance to meet up with Richard Carriere, general manager of office productivity with Corel, for an interesting chat about the state of the office productivity market and Corel's position among the competing noise of Microsoft, Google, and Star/Openoffice.
Richard was also able to shed some light on something that had puzzled me - why Corel had not yet announced support for the OpenDocument Format despite being involved in the standardization process.
Open source funding tops $500m
June 20, 2006
Open source applications firm Compiere has landed $6m in venture capital funding from New Enterprise Associates, prompting the ERP and CRM vendor to relocate to Silicon Valley, and me to take a second look at open source VC funding.
The big news is that over $500m has been invested in the 40 open source software vendors CBR has identified, up from $362m the last time we took a look at it.
Does the world really need another mobile Linux project?
June 15, 2006
The big news this morning before we all clock off to watch the football is that Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone have got together to establish a new foundation to create a Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.
The initiative has been developed to reduce the number of Linux software platforms deployed on mobile devices, a worthwhile project, but has also increased the number of mobile Linux standards projects.
All the open source information you'll ever need?
CBR's new Open Source Analysis Center is now up and running, and - with a few tweaks of the CMS - is now populated with all the latest CBR news and features related to open source software.
The Analysis Center features the latest news headlines, as well as a year's worth of open source features, reflecting the depth and breadth of open source software's impact on the IT industry.
Red Hat steps nearer systems management
June 14, 2006
Having open sourced the technology behind JBoss's Operations Network this week, Red Hat is insisting that it has no intention of creating a systems management framework. The move is the latest in a series of developments that see the Linux vendor tiptoeing closer to that space, however.
Greenplum says open source is good for business, Novell explains its Bandit plans
June 13, 2006
Data warehousing start-up Greenplum has carved a niche for itself in a competitive market, and it's no coincidence that it has done so with open source software, according to founder and acting CEO Scott Yara.
Ingres cleans up its act
June 12, 2006
My ComputerWire colleague Tony Baer has written an interesting article on Ingres, the open source database spun out of CA last year. Going open source presented a few challenges it seems, not least ensuring the code base was free from any 'unsuitable comments.'
OSBC Europe - an event not to miss?
June 07, 2006
It's not often we flag up specific events at CBR (although you can find a list of forthcoming events here) but I had to mention the forthcoming Open Source Business Conference Europe, which is looking like it could be one not to miss.
Google acquires XL2Web, launches Google Spreadsheets
June 06, 2006
UPDATE - Google has confirmed that it acquired 2Web Technologies and its XL2Web technology to form the basis of its Google Spreadsheets project, which was launched today.
Red Hat rules out database acquisition
June 05, 2006
As well as being out of the office for three weeks, I also missed out on a trip to Nashville to attend the Red Hat Summit. My colleague Timothy Prickett-Morgan made the trip, however, and got some interesting comments from Red Hat execs about its database strategy.
Novell enters Bandit country
A few months ago I reported on the launch of Project Higgins, an open source identity management initiative backed by Novell, IBM and Parity Communications. Now it appears that Novell is setting up another open source identity management project, in the form of the Bandit project.
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