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ApacheCon Series: Sourcesense's CEO Weighs In On Open Development

The ApacheCon conference, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Apache Software Foundatoin, wrapped up a few days ago, and there were lots of highlights, including recognition from California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Oakland, California mayor Ron Dellums. In conjunction with the big event, we ran a series of guest posts from key players at the foundation, found here, here, and here. For our final guest post in the ApacheCon series, Gianugo Rabellino, CEO of Sourcesense (a leading open source integrator in Europe, and agile computing consultancy) weighs in on open development. Here it is, below the fold.


ApacheCon US 2009 is Approaching: Want a Discount?

Apache is without a doubt one of the most influential open source platforms available, and the Apache web server has continued to maintain dominant market share in recent years. Other Apache projects are also flourishing. From November 2nd to 6th, at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, California, The Apache Software Foundation is hosting ApacheCon US 2009. The event will feature educational sessions, a hackathon, a solid roster of speakers, and more.

The conference is partly in celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation, and is one of several annual events that the foundation runs around the world.OStatic is a media partner with the foundation for the event, and readers can get a 10 percent discount to the conference. Here is how to do so, and more details.



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Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability self-inflicted. The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.



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There will be three updates to Android by the end of the year. They're all named after desserts.

Chrome OS proves Google can hype, but can it win? It used to be that only Microsoft could pre-announce a product to mass hysteria, then under-deliver for the first few iterations.

Google and open source finally kill Clippy. Microsoft is selling Office 2010 as an action flick whose first scene is at the graveside of Clippy, the paperclip help icon.

Five ways to help secure Apache on Linux. Apache is one of the most popular web servers available, and it's easier to secure than you may think.

6 reasons to license software under the GPL. Programmers are plagiarists.



At Hadoop Summit, Yahoo! Announces its Tested Distribution

At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. Hadoop, of course, is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now, as Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo, described in detail here.?


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24 open source apps for Asus netbooks. Good tools for Windows and Linux systems.

Apache better than GPL for open source business? What's the optimal license for commercial open source projects?

Linux fast-boot tech targets Windows users. Xandros' Presto utility can power up Windows notebooks and netbooks in seconds.

ReactOS improves its open source Windows clone. The operating system's server version has a very low memory footprint.

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is available. It features excellent hardware compatibility and the KDE 4.2 desktop environment.



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Cisco declares war, embraces open source. It has a new Unified Computing initiative, and although the technology is proprietary, open source software plays a role.

Intellectual property and open source. Read an excerpt from the award-winning book of the same name.

Apache's ongoing licensing bout with Sun. The recently updated Java Specification Requests (JSRs) show that a battle continues.

15 interesting facts about the Linux kernel. Only two percent was written by Linus Torvalds.

Could Cloudera become the open source Asia? Its talent pool runs deep.



rPath CTO and Founder Erik Troan on the Future of Open Source

The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is coming up, to be held March 24th and 25th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The conference will include much discussion on the future of open source. In preparation, OStatic has been? running a series of guest posts on this theme, featuring thought leaders from top open source projects. We checked in with Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system, and co-founder of Acquia. Martin Schneider, director of product marketing for SugarCRM, weighed in on the open cloud, and Novell VP Justin Steinman wrote about open source and mass customization. Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft, also discussed the consumerization of information. In this latest installment in the series, we have a guest post on the future of open source from Erik Troan, founder and CTO of rPath, which offers a platform for software vendors to create and maintain software appliances and virtual appliances in multiple virtual machine formats.


Acquia Gets New CEO, Extends Drupal Searches, and More

Acquia, which offers a commercially supported version of the open source Drupal content management system is out with a series of announcements today. The company has a new CEO, Tom Erickson, who was formerly CEO of Systinet, which he sold to Mercury Interactive. Acquia has also announced a public beta of Acquia Search, a hosted service, as well as cloud-based Drupal hosting, and Drupal stack installers for Windows and the Mac.


Apache Holds Steady Market Share, Still Dominating Microsoft IIS

Last March, we noted a decline in the dominance of the Apache web server, based on market research numbers from Netcraft, but we also noted that Apache continues to be much more popular than Microsoft IIS. Netcraft is out with new numbers for January of this year, which show Apache's market share growing about one percent for the month and staying very steady at about 50 percent of the web server market. Meanwhile, Microsoft's IIS is losing share. Here are some thoughts on Netcraft's findings.


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