ForgeRock Shines on Sun's Legacy Identity – InternetNews.com Lovely overview of ForgeRock's first year in this interview with me from last week. (tags: ForgeRock Business Identity OpenSource OpenSSO OpenDS OpenAM OpenDJ OpenIDM Clippings simonphipps) Open Source Approaching 30% Of Enterprise Software When even the trailing indicators say it, you have to pay attention. (tags: OpenSource [...]
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The rules for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft’s own open source license – the Microsoft Reciprocal License – is banned. Read about it on ComputerWorldUK.
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Moglen on Freedom Box and making a free net Eben’s ideas on a zero-interaction home server (“FreedomBox”) to route internet traffic safely and effectively seem very interesting, but I wonder if there’s not the dimension of personal data hosting/VRM being overlooked in his thinking? Push the FreedomBox Foundation from 0 to 60 in 30 Eben [...]
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Microsoft: Absolutely NO Free Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps Despite all the rhetoric from Microsoft’s evangelists, they just can’t get over their hatred and fear of software freedom. And it’s not just about the GPL as some assert – this sweeping rule ensures they probably can’t even have software under some of Microsoft’s [...]
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I’ve not found a way to add a subject index page to my blog that’s automatically generated from the tags or extracts or even a word list, but I have added an archive page so you can at least scan through all the subject lines. It’s also linked at the foot of the Essays page.
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There’s plenty of talk about how Nokia’s embrace of Microsoft’s Windows Phone has doomed Nokia. But has Nokia’s embrace actually doomed Windows Phone? Read my views on ComputerWorldUK.
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The Eclipse Foundation is home to a family of projects related to enterprise software development. Its Executive Director Mike Milinkovic has very kindly supplied the data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation. In his submission Mike actually scored the first point higher and I reduced his +1 for “open” down to zero because the Board is controlled [...]
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With A Little Help: The Early Returns Excellent and honest account from Cory of his experiment in self-publishing. From reading this it’s clear that there is still a roll for publishing agents – notably in securing volume pricing for physical books and in managing promotion. All the same, it’s early days. London Stock Exchange in [...]
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Document Freedom Day is March 30th this year. Why should you join in? See my article on ComputerWorldUK!
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ForgeRock was started in February 2010 and is now one year old. In its first year: ForgeRock did business with 35 customers in 10 countries Global turnover exceeded $2M US and continues to grow The company has grown to 35 employees who between them speak at least 14 languages ForgeRock has 80 consulting and training [...]
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