At the beginning of February Matt Asay moved from Alfresco to Canonical, and Matt’s blog activity already reflects his career change and I asked Matt about his top priorities in the new role. Continue reading ‘Matt Asay’s Top Priorities and Goals’
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How open source licensing’s decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
IP lawyers as well as specialized firms are probably happy to help with the first ones, but let’s talk about the implications in the area of Value Configuration and Key activities looking at some real cases (Day Software, MySQL).
Continue reading ‘Open Source Licensing, Value Configuration and Key Activities’
Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.
Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype - a company with a strong Apache background - for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.
Let’s have a closer look at how - and if - these changes reflect new business directions.
Olliance Group, the open source strategy firm, is organizing the 5th Annual Think Tank that will be held at the Meritage Resort in Napa (California) on April 15-17.
If you never got a chance to join the Open Source Think Tank, the leading invitation-only commercial open source brainstorm and networking conference, get a gist of what you can hear, below an excerpt of my notes from the 4th Open Source Think Tank.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Think Tank 2010: Registrations are Open!’
Nearly 1,000 New Developers Flock to Appcelerator After Company Announces Support for Apple’s iPad - Appcelerator, the platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced that Appcelerator Titanium would support Apple’s iPad starting in February. Continue reading ‘Open Source Products New Releases: Appcelerator, Opentaps, Selenium’
Larry Ellison tomorrow will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission’s clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Carlo Piana’s Feedback’
Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison’s webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission’s clearance of the deal.
Continue reading ‘EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Florian Mueller’s Comments the Day After the EU Deal’s Clearance’
Few days ago WaveMaker announced profitability, showing an increase on sales by over 53% in the latest quarter, eventually showing the world that the cloud is a given, and not a prediction.
Chris Keene, WaveMaker CEO, gave me some background information on how the WaveMaker open source framework later became an open cloud development platform.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Cloud: WaveMaker Makes Surfable Waves’
Stephen Walli will held the “Commercial Open Source at Work” workshop at the next Open Mobility, in March in San Francisco. The workshop is part of a joint collaboration between Stephen and myself, of which I am proud and glad.
Below the workshop summary, if you plan to go you better know early bid discount expires in 14 days.
Continue reading ‘Open Mobility USA 2010: Open Source Workshop, by Stephen Walli’
WSO2 - the open source SOA company with offices located in USA, UK and Sri Lanka - earlier this week made three announcements introducing its new middleware platform for heterogeneous SOAs, now including the Business Activity Monitor and the Gadget Server, all based on the WSO2 Carbon platform. While the Gadget Server simplifies developers’ lives allowing them to write gadgets instead of portlets, the Monitor provides near real-time visibility to performance metrics.
Now that WSO2 offers probably the first complete middleware platform fully open source, I asked Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO and founder, few questions about how the business is going at WSO2.
Continue reading ‘Open Source SOA Middleware: WSO2 moves full spead ahead’
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