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Open Source Weblog: September 2007 Archives
How to find the right open source product...
September 27, 2007
Locating the right open source product just got a hell of lot easier thanks to OpenLogic, which has launched a free website, OLEX, where you can research and download oven-ready open source packages...
Red Hat reorganises business
September 26, 2007
Red Hat has pulled out of the bag some glowingly healthy financial results, as Linux sales continue to flourish.
Subscriptions to Linux software peaked at $109.2m for the second quarter, up 29% over the same period last year. Overall, the company reported revenues of $127.3m, up 28% on last year and 7% on the previous quarter. But it's not all good news...
Has Microsoft lost patent power over Linux in UK?
September 21, 2007
Microsoft claims that Linux infringes 235 patents, but if it wants to fight it out in a UK court, it had better think again.
Andrew Katz, a solicitor at UK law firm Moorcrofts, points out that those patents simply don’t apply under UK law. Rather than use patents, Europeans take the far more sensible view, in his opinion, of using copyright law to protect intellectual property in software...
Red Hat tells EU to sock it to Microsoft
September 20, 2007
Monday’s Microsoft ruling is good news for open source and proprietary vendors alike. But Michael Cunningham, executive vice president and general councel at Red Hat, believes the European Commission shouldn’t let up the pressure on the Redmond giant.
Does Microsoft even care about EU decision?
September 18, 2007
So, this time, Microsoft wasn’t able to use its brawn to beat up the other kids in the playground, and was made to sit in penance on the ‘naughty step’.
A victory for the anti-monopolists? Well, yes. But exactly how chastened is Microsoft? Has it learnt its lesson, or will it simply look for another way to get round the problem next time?
Time for a change
September 14, 2007
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that I referred earlier to Janine Milne as CBR’s new deputy editor.
That’s because today is my last day at CBR/ComputerWire as I’m moving on to the role of enterprise software analyst at The 451 Group. I will be working alongside Raven Zachary and Jay Lyman covering Linux and open source and will be blogging at 451 CAOS Theory.
Risk and opportunity: open source in the UK
Following my recent rant about open source adoption in the UK, and the lack of it, CBR’s new deputy editor, Janine Milne, attended the Westminster eForum debate involving the leading open source advocates in the country as well as a smattering of politicians.
The debate indicated that risk aversion is preventing the UK public sector from exploiting the benefits of open source, but that UK’s position as the open source laggard of Europe is preventing the growth of UK software industry and skills.
Has Microsoft backed itself into a virtual corner?
September 13, 2007
Paula Rooney has written an excellent article about Microsoft attitude towards Linux in virtual environments, taking in its relationships with Novell and Citrix/XenSource, as well as its new partnership with Sun.
In her piece, Rooney makes a good point about the importance of Red Hat in all this. “Winning is not a foregone conclusion in the virtualization software market, and Microsoft should not be out alientating the market leading Linux distribution vendor," she writes.
Open source in the UK: investigate, approve and ignore
September 11, 2007
Just over a year ago CBR published a look at the UK's adoption of open source software in the UK and promised a later update. That update is long overdue, and is also timely given that tomorrow some of the leading open source advocates in the country will gather in Westminster to debate the future of open source in this country.
To some extent the fact that the debate is taking place is indicative of a slightly improved attitude towards open source in the UK public sector, but in truth, not much has changed. This article updates the previous one with details of new developments in the last year.
OOo! IBM signs up for OpenOffice.org
September 10, 2007
What’s interesting about IBM signing up to become a member of the OpenOffice.org community is the fact that it wasn’t a member already. Given the company’s campaigning behind ODF I don’t think many people would have considered that the company wasn’t a community member.
As the Q&A asks: What took IBM so long?
A few thoughts on Sun and NetApp
September 07, 2007
You’ll all have seen and read by now about NetApp suing Sun for patent infringement. I’m not going to re-hash the arguments, but there are a couple of points of interest related to Sun’s patent strategy and open source.
Like a drunk with a lampost
September 05, 2007
When I first glanced this morning at this report about the likelihood of Linux adoption rates slowing there was something about it that seemed wrong, but I didn't have time to think about it.
Based on a UBS survey of its CIO-level customers, the report states that the number of non-Linux users who do not intend to adopt the operating system is increasing.
It wasn't until I saw Savio Rodrigues's take on the survey and read the original story again that I saw the light.
Betting the business on open source
iPod-compatible stereo sound system vendor mStation announced yesterday that it is to acquire Mophie, which designs and creates iPod-compatible accessories such as skins, belt clips and arm bands.
UPDATE - I misundertood this quite a bit (see the comment below), this is the corrected post - UPDATE
What does this have to do with open source? The Mophie founders are now going to focus on Illuminator, the product design and development community, through which Mophie collaboratesd with prospective customers on the future of its product line.
Microsoft lost the ISO OOXML vote, by the way
Not that you'd know it from this statement. As Dana Blankenhorn notes, several news sites fell for the spin.
(One even reported a Microsoft victory and hasn't had the good grace to admit it got the headline wrong despite numerous corrections and a misunderstanding of the voting process).
Meanwhile, Mary Jo Foley has an interesting take on why, in her view, Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote.
What next for OOXML?
September 04, 2007
With the huge number of different stories being written about it, it's hard to know where the world stands with OOXML and what the next steps are.
You can rely on Andy Updegrove to explain the situation sensibly and calmly, however, and he's done a great job of outlining the situation over a couple of posts .
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