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Open Source vs. Microsoft in the Enterprise

One of the latest reports from Forrester, Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007 is starting to make its way around media outlets on the web. The Forrester folks tracked software trends in major categories across 50,000 users month-by-month, and now their conclusions are out. Depending on how you look at it, they're either good or bad for open source.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Awards are on their way for top contributions to open source. Google and O'Reilly are calling for nominations for 2008 open source awards.....Would a synchronized release schedule benefit Linux distros and open source in general?.....Windows or open source is not even the question....Second open source HD movie set for release in May.....



Sun CEO Schwartz Champions Open Source at Web 2.0

Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Friday, and OStatic staff was on hand. Sun, of course, has aggressively embraced open source software in its post-Scott McNealy period, as evidenced by its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL.

Schwartz discussed ongoing open source efforts at Sun, current work being done with Linus Torvalds, MySQL, and even the future of blogging at the conference.

 



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Wavemaker Technologies, which makes open source tools for web developers, has received $4.5 million in VC funding.....A report asserting that open source software is costing software companies $60 billion a year in lost revenues is drawing skepticism.....Are the iPhone SDK and porting or developing open source software with it a match?.....Linux.com has an interesting report on running Windows and Linux without virtualization.....Is Comcast's Bill of Rights for file sharing necessary in the open source world?.....Is an open source newspaper, where readers pick the content, a good idea?.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

On the heels of our prediction, open source Java is quickly heading into Linux distros. Sun Microsystems, Canonical and Red Hat have announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Server and Desktop editions.....Microsoft is using open source to extend systems management to Linux.....Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, discusses his company's move to 100 percent open source software development.....Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth weighs in on MicroHoo.....



Yahoo Tries to Become the Cool Kid -- By Being More Open

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its intention to purchase Yahoo for $44 billion in cash and stock. Now, Yahoo has announced its intention to become a fully open, platformizable company, letting developers mix and match its services and data in new and different ways. How much of this is designed to make Yahoo more profitable, and how much is simply a reaction to Microsoft's acquisition attempt? Will openness bring Yahoo more revenues, or simply make it a cooler company in developers' eyes?


Web 2.0 Conference: Lots of News for Open Sourcers

The big tech conference this week is Web 2.0, going on now in San Francisco. There is a lot of meaningful news coming out of the conference, much of it directly impacting open source and some of it peripherally impacting it. Bungee Labs is looking to open source to expand its hosting options, Microsoft's Live Mesh announcement is getting lots of attention, Forrester Research is predicting big things for Web 2.0 technologies, and more.

We've rounded up the news here, and we'll keep it coming from the conference this week.

 



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

eWeek has a good interview with Ubuntu guru and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, who claims Microsoft is fracturing the open source community.....

Asus' Eee PC is the most popular laptop featuring an open source OS. The company will share its development experience at the Taiwan Open Source Summit.....

Microsoft and Novell are expanding their open source initiatives into China.....

The head of Sun Microsystems' database division says MySQL will remain an open source product.....



More Open Source TLC from Microsoft's Ray Ozzie

Many news outlets are hyping Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's comments on open source Thursday at the Most Valuable Professional Summit in Seattle. As I thought was true when Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel Brad Smith wooed the open source community at OSBC in San Francisco, much of this looks to be PR due to the company's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. That looks like why the top executives--Ballmer, Ozzie, Smith--keep whispering sweet nothings about open source. Still, ever since his days at Lotus and Groove Networks, Ozzie has really known software, and almost always has something interesting to say. He did on Thursday.


What Hurts Them Helps Us: How Open Source Benefits from the Bad

I noted today that Argentina may become the first country in the world to require all government offices to use open source software. The nation's congress is evaluating a bill to mandate that. This follows several other proposed mandates to get entire governments, or large branches, to go open source. The U.S. Navy has announced an open standards only initiative, Australia is seeking to break U.S. software lock-in with open source, and more. In Argentina's case, the prompt toward open source is driven by rampant piracy. And there's the rub: Just as a recession may bode very well for open source, negative trends in the software industry and in the economy can be big boosts for OSS.


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