Rotten to the (Open) Core? Dave Neary’s thorough analysis of the problem with open core is right on the nail. (tags: OpenCore OpenSource) Opening The Rackspace Cloud The thinking behind the launch of open source cloud software at OpenStack is classic – grow the market by being truly open and everybody wins. This is exactly [...]
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NASA and Rackspace open source cloud fluffer Very significant initiative. The fact it’s under the Apache licence makes it highly reusable, and the diversity of the participants combined with open governance gives confidence it can evolve freely and openly. Most interesting is the NASA comment that their work was a response to Eucalyptus choosing to [...]
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At the end of the Community Leadership Summit here in Portland people arriving for OSCON started to show up. They included one of the guys behind Rackspace’s announcement of OpenStack that was made today. He gave me a full rundown of both the news and the history behind it. The history seems to suggest it [...]
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Oracle’s Support for Open Source and Open Standards Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what’s missing as well as for what’s there. Also interesting that while the page is overwhelmingly about open source they still feel compelled to mention open standards. The New York [...]
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I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of behaviours exhibited, some of which are acceptable to pragmatists and some of which cross the line into abusing the term “open source”. Where should we [...]
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You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At a meeting with an unusually large number of community observers, we discussed how to respond to the 100% radio silence the OGB has experienced from [...]
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I’m heading to California en route to OSCON (where I’ll be speaking on Wednesday at 5:20pm about open source continuity – use code os10fos to get a 20% discount if you’ve still to buy your ticket). I just got a voicemail from the airline delivered as a transcription by Google Voice and it’s definitely trying [...]
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SugarCRM 6 Debuts with Open Source and Commercial Features While their marketing guy may claim “that overall, Sugar 6 is an open source product from an open source company”, it’s hard to see how they are anything other than a proprietary software company who share some code with a related open source project. Claiming to [...]
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The conference landscape evolves constantly. Old events pass away, new ones arrive and it’s good to get pointers to know what’s worthwhile. I can recommend this year’s Open World Forum, happening in Paris on September 30 and October 1.It’s a volunteer-run conference for the open source and free software community and covers multiple tracks and [...]
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We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now? This post, effectively a manifesto for the next generation of packaging, is well worth reading as Matt articulately describes the same issues that led the OpenSolaris team to develop IPS. His solution differs – not one ring to bind them all, but rather a decoupling of cooperating [...]
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