Commercial Open Source Software

Having had the chance to chair the Open Source Analysts session at the Open World Forum I want to share here some takeaways. Matthew Aslett, senior analyst at the 451 group, opened the session anticipating some results from the upcoming revision of the “Open Source is NOT a business model” report, due between the end of October and the beginning of November. Continue reading ‘Notes from the Open Source Analysts Summit 2010′

On the 3rd of September the European Commission has decided to conduct a phase two inquiry, which includes forwarding surveys to Oracle’s competitors and customers as well as organizing “crowded“ private hearings.

While lobbyists of both sides are arguing to convince the EC that the deal may - or may not - limit competition in the database market, Monty Widenius asks hecklers for help to save mySQL, and Oracle makes commitments.

Florian Mueller - known EU campaigner and strategist, involved also in the software patents war - shared with me some of his current ideas, and I took the chance to speculate around the events.

Continue reading ‘EU Oracle-Sun Investigation: Hobbyists and Hecklers at Work’

Cloud Expo Europe 2009 - Cloud Expo Europe will take place in Lodon, 20th & 21st May in London.

Speakers from Amazon, Deloitte, Google, IBM, Red Hat and many more will be presenting at a conference, included Jon ‘maddog’ Hall and Bill Weinberg. Listening to Jon at VON Europe was a pleasure, I am sorry to the event and his speech.Matthew Aslett speaking about ‘How to make millions from open source‘ is another speech I’d love to hera, and last but not least the debate around the Open Cloud Manifesto.

Continue reading ‘Cloud Expo Europe and the Open Cloud Manifesto’