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Yesterday, Kristin provided some good analysis of a new research report from The 451 Group. The report concludes that open source is less of a business model than a business tactic. Within the post about the report, there is an executive summary (PDF) which points to some interesting trends for open source, outside the constraints of the question The 451 Group was trying to answer.

Are you familiar with OpenXava? Not everyone is, but it has big fans in the Java development community. It's a popular web application framework for developing business applications. It generates Java (JavaEE/J2EE) web applications that can be deployed on any Java Portal Server as portlet applications. OpenXava is noted for saving developers programming time by delivering business components that they can adjust, rather than making them build applications from the ground up. Javier Paniza, Creator and Lead Developer, checked in with us on where OpenXava is going and other open source goings on.