Red Hat gets a new VP. rPath appoints former Red Hat COO as chairman. Ubuntu Launchpad to go open source. Open source Windows. SCO formally files for Chapter 11. And more.
Official announcements
Industry Veteran Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as Vice
President and General Manager of North American Sales Red Hat
rPath Welcomes Ex-Red Hat COO Tim Buckley rPath
Liferay Portal Released in Enterprise Edition LifeRay
[Read more]I wrote last week about the commercial open source business strategies that I expect to dominate in 2009.
The flipside to that is the commercial open source community strategy. You simply can’t have one without the other, and I expect community strategies will be a hot topic in 2009 and beyond.
Savio Rodrigues wrote recently that “By the end of 2008, virtually every successful open source vendor has a fairly tightly controlled development process and this hasn’t hurt their revenue growth.”
Based on my prediction that proprietary licensing strategies will be increasingly important in the next two years I am inclined to agree with him.
However, I am also …
[Read more]EMC buys some, but not all, of SourceLabs. Cfengine launches data center automation software. Open source and TCO. Measuring corporate contributions to open source. And more.
Official announcements
Self-repairing Data Center Automation solution
released Cfengine
Acquia Joins Red Hat Exchange Bringing Social Publishing Expertise to the Open Source Ecosystem Acquia
DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex DotNetNuke
The BitRock Network Service Improves Product …
[Read more]The future of commercial open source software lies in commercial licensing strategies, but which are the strategies that are more likely to deliver the results vendors are looking for?
Much of the open source blog chatter over the Christmas period was related to open source business models/strategies, largely triggered by a post written by Dave Rosenberg in which he declared that commercial licensing, and specifically open core licensing will be all the rage in 2009:
“Typically we now see an “open core” freely available with “exclusive” or proprietary features only available when you pay. If you are trying to build a commercial business on top of an open source project, this is likely the right answer.”
…
[Read more]A bumper CAOS Links rounding up the news and views from the festive period, including: Red Hat revenue up 22% in 3Q. Alan Cox departs for Intel. Evolving open source business strategies. The commercialization opportunity around OpenOffice.org. And more.
Official announcements
Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results Red Hat
OpenLogic Survey Highlights Enterprise Perspectives on Open Source Application Servers OpenLogic
Asianux Concludes Triumphant Year, Welcomes Fifth Member Asianux
News articles
The future of open source …
Red Hat increases its service levels. Linux Foundation appoints Ted Ts’o CTO. Sun delivers VirtualBox update. Novell cancels BrainShare. BBC enables iPlayer for Linux. And more.
Note: This is the last 451 CAOS Links post of 2008. We’ll be back with a bumper holiday special on January 2. Happy holidays!
Official announcements
Red Hat Increases Service Levels and Reduces Costs
for Customers with Extended Update Support Red Hat
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts’o to Position of Chief Technology Officer Linux Foundation
…
[Read more]Back in October last year a corporate accountability group called As You Sow attempted to persuade Oracle to detail its commitment to open source by publishing an Open Source Social Responsibility Report.
Oracle resisted the proposal but did promise to share more details on its use of open source in the next version of its Oracle’s Commitment social responsibility report. I just noticed that the renamed Oracle Corporate Citizenship Report (Pdf) was recently published (in late November as far as I can make out) and does indeed include a section on Oracle’s commitment to open source.
In the section “Open Source and Accessibility” Oracle notes that …
[Read more]FSF sues Cisco for GPL violations. JasperSoft and Lucid Imagination raise funding. Sun updates OpenSolaris. WaveMaker launches IDE for the cloud. And more.
Official announcements
Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For
GPL Violations Free Software Foundation
Jaspersoft Secures $12.5 Million in Venture Funding JasperSoft
Sound Investment Red Hat
…
[Read more]Linux Defenders formed to protect against patents. Sun adds new board members and officially announces MySQL 5.1. Microsoft releases open source content management system. Google’s secret OS? And more.
Official announcements
Open Invention Network and Partners Unveil
Landmark ‘Linux Defenders’ Program to Give the Open Source
Community Greater Freedom Open Invention Network
Sun Microsystems and Southeastern Asset Management Agree to Appoint New Independent Members to Sun’s Board of Directors Sun Microsystems
[Read more]When Monty Widenius published his criticisms of MySQL 5.1 recently a lot of the coverage that followed focused on his belief that the product had been made generally available too early and has too many serious bugs.
A solution to this problem would have been told hold 5.1 back even longer for more testing or, better still, not to have announced it as a release candidate so early. However, reading Monty’s post in full indicates that this would be a matter of treating the symptoms rather than finding a cure.
He also wrote: “the MySQL current development model doesn’t in practice allow the MySQL community to participate in the development of the MySQL server” and “I think it’s time to seriously review how the MySQL server is being developed and change the development model to be more like Drizzle and …
[Read more]