Monday, April 16, 2007
Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz’ Open Source Strategy?
Will Glassfish Validate Schwartz’ Open Source Strategy?
Dana Blankenhorn @ ZD Net, March 20th, 2007
Glassfish is a Java-based application server. As such it competes with other quality open source products, and is a part of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' open source strategy.
Schwartz' bet was that Sun will, in the long run, make more money by leveraging an open source community and selling support than by keeping its code proprietary.
Will Schwartz's strategy be validated? The author discusses this further at this post
Dana Blankenhorn @ ZD Net, March 20th, 2007
Glassfish is a Java-based application server. As such it competes with other quality open source products, and is a part of Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz' open source strategy.
Schwartz' bet was that Sun will, in the long run, make more money by leveraging an open source community and selling support than by keeping its code proprietary.
Will Schwartz's strategy be validated? The author discusses this further at this post
Labels: application-server, sun-microsystems
Red Hat to make India services strategy hub
Red Hat to make India services strategy hub
N Shivapriya, Times News Network, Apr 13, 2007
MUMBAI: A year and half after it bought out its Indian JV partner and set up a fully-owned subsidiary in the country, open source software leader Red Hat Inc is making India the hub for its new services strategy.
The firm, which is under threat from giants such as Oracle and Microsoft to keep its market share in the expanding Linux pie, is also looking at new revenue streams like consulting and services, Red Hat global CFO Charlie Peters said in an interview with ET.
Read the full report from here @ Economic Times
N Shivapriya, Times News Network, Apr 13, 2007
MUMBAI: A year and half after it bought out its Indian JV partner and set up a fully-owned subsidiary in the country, open source software leader Red Hat Inc is making India the hub for its new services strategy.
The firm, which is under threat from giants such as Oracle and Microsoft to keep its market share in the expanding Linux pie, is also looking at new revenue streams like consulting and services, Red Hat global CFO Charlie Peters said in an interview with ET.
Read the full report from here @ Economic Times
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Just How 'Free' Are Open Source Licensing Models?
Just How 'Free' Are Open Source Licensing Models?
...asks Seth Grimes, in this April 10, 2007 blog post.
Seth feels that confusion and controversy about Open Source licensing exist, and that concerns are "both alleviated and complicated" by a profusion of options that range from GPL's communitarianism to the Common Public License's collaborative focus to BSD's laissez-faire liberality.
Analysing SplendidCRM's (SugarCRM extension) business model, he says "SplendidCRM's development process and the licensing model they share with SugarCRM seem immature. Open Source is most vibrant and successful, measured by adoption, quality, and profit potential, when projects are truly and completely free with the collaboration that freedom promotes." He obviously feels that SplendidCRM does not qualify fully as Open Source?
Interesting article, read the full post here @ Intelligent Enteprise
...asks Seth Grimes, in this April 10, 2007 blog post.
Seth feels that confusion and controversy about Open Source licensing exist, and that concerns are "both alleviated and complicated" by a profusion of options that range from GPL's communitarianism to the Common Public License's collaborative focus to BSD's laissez-faire liberality.
Analysing SplendidCRM's (SugarCRM extension) business model, he says "SplendidCRM's development process and the licensing model they share with SugarCRM seem immature. Open Source is most vibrant and successful, measured by adoption, quality, and profit potential, when projects are truly and completely free with the collaboration that freedom promotes." He obviously feels that SplendidCRM does not qualify fully as Open Source?
Interesting article, read the full post here @ Intelligent Enteprise
Labels: business-models, case-studies, crm
Iona picks up open source firm
Iona picks up open source firm
April 10 2007, by Maxim Kelly
Software giant Iona acquired LogicBlaze recently.
LogicBlaze provides business integration solutions based on open source technologies. In a statement, Iona said its latest acquisition is based on the assumption that its future service oriented architecture (SOA) deployments will include multiple technologies, including many from the open source community.
REad the full report from here @ Electronic News
April 10 2007, by Maxim Kelly
Software giant Iona acquired LogicBlaze recently.
LogicBlaze provides business integration solutions based on open source technologies. In a statement, Iona said its latest acquisition is based on the assumption that its future service oriented architecture (SOA) deployments will include multiple technologies, including many from the open source community.
REad the full report from here @ Electronic News
Labels: acquisitions, application-integration, soa
