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Open Source Weblog: August 2006 Archives
Open source wins in Denmark, loses in Norway
August 31, 2006
Some mixed signals towards open source from Scandinavia this week as a report from a Danish consultancy indicates that the government could save 125 million krone ($21.5m) over five years by moving to OpenOffice and ODF.
On the downside, things appear to have gone awry in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which has reportedly abandoned its plans to ditch Microsoft Windows in favour of Linux. [UPDATE - Novell says this story is not quite correct, see below].
CBR's Open Source VIPs: the list in full
August 30, 2006
Following the publication of part one of CBR's Open Source VIPs last month, part two is now also online.
To see why the individuals were chosen, take a look at the two parts of the feature, but see below for a quick look at the list in full, and leave us a comment telling us who we should have picked instead.
Red Hat, Oracle, and Linux's Mexican standoff
August 29, 2006
Former JBoss CEO - and now GM of Red Hat's JBoss Division - Marc Fleury has returned from investor-relations blogging exile with a long an interesting post that takes in the open source business model, the early days of Red Hat/JBoss, the potential for Oracle Linux, and a potential Mexican standoff in the Linux distribution market.
The state of the nation: open source in the UK
August 24, 2006
There have been a number of headlines recently involving various open source projects and approval documents in the UK, but how is the UK doing as a whole when it comes to open source adoption?
This article pulls together a number of reports and news articles to get a view of open source adoption and attitudes across the country. The result suggests a generally positive view of open source, although that does not always mean high levels of adoption.
The future of desktop Linux - Microsoft Office or FOOGL?
August 22, 2006
Here's a couple of interesting articles about Linux on the desktop that, while entirely unrelated, make interesting reading when placed together.
First Gentoo Linux creator Daniel Robbins responds to OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen's assertion that it is "inevitable" that Microsoft will release Office for Linux, then Glyn Moody has an interesting take on FOOGL, the stepping stones from Windows to Linux.
Happy birthday open source?
August 21, 2006
Red Herring magazine has a short but sweet Q&A with Linus Torvalds to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the creation of the Linux operating system, where he comments on VCs, corporate influence, and the future of Linux.
The only remaining question is: why is Red Herring celebrating the anniversary of Linux with the headline "Happy Birthday Open Source"?
OSI details its (sort of) recommended open source licenses
August 18, 2006
Sun's chief open source officer and part time journalism critic, Simon Phipps, this week revealed that Sun's Common Development and Distribution License was one of nine licenses that had been recommended by the Open Source Initiative's license proliferation committee.
The first draft of the committee's report into license proliferation is now available but stops short of 'recommending' or 'approving' any license, however, as the committee's initial plan to reduce the number of open source licenses has proved too simplistic.
Novell successfully preaches to the converted
August 17, 2006
Novell deserves congratulations for its SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop product winning best in show at LinuxWorld, particularly as it appears Red Hat couldn't be bothered to turn up.
There has been a feeling since Novell acquired SUSE that it needed to up its game in competing with Red Hat and so far this year it seems to be doing so. Without wishing to give with one hand and take away with the other, I can't help feeling that Novell is currently preaching to the converted, however.
IDC says open source is going to be, like, THIS BIG
August 16, 2006
Research and analysis firm IDC seems to have woken up to the open source software movement and has converted in a big way, describing open source software as " the most significant all-encompassing and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s".
Open source Java 'no big deal' says Sun
August 15, 2006
It's not often you find a vendor playing down the impact of one of its announcements, but that's exactly what Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, did this morning as it maintained that Sun open sourcing Java will have little effect on users, developers or the Java community process.
HP, Debian, and the question of Linux support
August 14, 2006
Who provides support for Linux, the systems vendors or the distributors? This has been a key question as the likes of IBM, HP, Dell and Sun have got more involved with Linux distribution.
The answer, if figures revealed by HP as it announced support for Debian are to be believed, is that the Linux vendors themselves have very little to do with providing customer technical support.
Zenoss lands $4.8m funding
August 11, 2006
Hot on the heels of Digium's $13.8m funding round, systems management vendor Zenoss has become the latest open source vendor to get a cash injection.
openSUSE: is there an echo in here?
August 10, 2006
Novell has announced that it is changing the name of its community Linux project to openSUSE. No, you're not suffering from deja vu, the announcement was previously made here and covered here.
Digium lands VC funding - as expected
August 09, 2006
At the Open Source Business Conference back in June Robin Vasan, managing director of Mayfield Fund, predicted that Asterix PBX developer Digium would be the next open source vendor to land VC funding. He was right: Digium just raised $13.8m.
Gas supplier BOC takes knowledge open source
August 08, 2006
Some interesting news of open source method and software adoption in the UK comes from gas supplier BOC Group, which is adopting the MediaWiki software and approach to improve knowledge capture and sharing.
Apple takes a second bite out of open source
Despite its reliance on open source code including FreeBSD 5.0 and Mach 3.0, Apple has had a hands-off commitment to the open source model in recent years, leading to the recent demise of the OpenDarwin project.
Where one door closes another one opens, however, as Apple's open source product manager, Ernest Prabhakar, has announced that it is opening up the code to the Intel kernel sources and other projects.
Open source reading list
August 07, 2006
Optaros's Stephen Walli has a list of what he calls "open source software development education materials" which make a pretty good starting point for anyone wanting to get to grips with the basics of open source.
The list is probably more suitable for developers, given that it contains work about open source development and licensing, but there's also some essential reading for the uninitiated.
Open source on the rise in UK education
August 04, 2006
A new survey hosted by the University of Oxford in the UK indicates that the use of open source software is on the increase at further and higher educational establishments.
Q&A: Groklaw's Pamela Jones
August 03, 2006
As part of CBR's feature on the Open Source VIPs, we were granted an email interview with Groklaw's Pamela Jones. Due to physical space limitations that Q&A had to be cut down for the magazine, but I thought readers would be interested to read all of PJ's thoughts on (among other things) SCO, Linux, patents, and her secret identity.
Why Red Hat will NOT go bust because of Ubuntu
August 02, 2006
Free Software Magazine has an interesting article claiming that Red Hat with whither and die at the expense of Ubuntu.
It's an interesting theory, but one that is based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of enterprise software purchasing (closed or open source).
Has Red Hat resorted to FUD with Xen to knock Novell?
August 01, 2006
Does Red Hat really have a problem with Xen or is it just using the virtualisation technology as a pawn to fight off potential competition from Novell?
Call me a cynic, but if the recent comments from Red Hat about Xen had come from a Microsoft exec, I think the Linux community would be screaming "FUD".
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