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Will Open Source Support Providers Ride a Government Gravy Train?

We've recently written about potentially far-reaching moves by the U.S. government to switch significant parts of its internal software infrastructure to open source. First, the news came out that Whitehouse.gov is now based on the open source Drupal content management system (which OStatic runs on too), then the U.S. Department of Defense announced its plans to move to open source software components and platforms.

When the news broke about Whitehouse.gov and Drupal (and the Obama administration has indicated intent to run other government sites with Drupal), my first thought was that Acquia, which provides commercial support for Drupal, might see some valuable support contracts from the government. InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues takes the idea one step further, though, and I'm inclined to agree with him.



Survey on Enterprise Open Source Usage Shows Disdain for Lock-In

OpenLogic, which provides support, compliance and other services for many enterprise open source software solutions, is out with the results of a survey of 118 enterprise IT and development executives. Among the trends found among respondents, they increasingly say they don't want single vendor lock-in from commercial open source software providers, and there are increasingly signs that they don't want to pay subscription prices for critical features, but do want support.


If An Open Source App Rises in a Company, Does Anybody Hear?

When an open source application or platform gains traction in a company, does the I.T. department necessarily drive that? Not always, as Rich Green, Executive VP of Software at Sun Microsystems,? confirmed for us in our interview with him. We regularly meet with CIOs of large companies who had no idea that their staffs downloaded and deployed MySQL, he told us. Seeing grassroots adoption of MySQL is one of the most gratifying parts of my job, he added. Early results from a small survey done by OpenLogic appear to support the idea that this often happens because of no formal procedures for tracking open source usage.


OpenLogic Offers Training Services to Open Source Newcomers

Talk about a company making lemonade out of the economy's lemons. There's a lot of talk about how the sluggish economy is a boon to the adoption of open source in enterprise, but enthusiastic IT managers are often met with resistance from business owners who don't understand what open source technology is all about, or how to use it.

OpenLogic has put together a series of training services that will help companies learn the ins and outs of using open source software. There are 4 different training options to choose from, ranging from days-long workshops to shorter sessions that last only a few hours. OpenLogic even offers a mentoring program for companies that need specific types of knowledge transfer. Training is typically done on-site, however some programs can be conducted as online tutorials.



Updates on OpenLogic's New Wazi Site, and Microsoft's CodePlex

Interesting news is rolling in about two sites that aggregate open source information and resources: OpenLogic's Wazi, and Microsoft's CodePlex. Wazi is the Swahili word for open, and is a new effort from OpenLogic, which provides enterprise open source solutions, to provide original content on topics such as how open source packages can efficiently work together. Meanwhile, Microsoft's open source chief Sam Ramji recently told The Register that its CodePlex site could be revised by year's end, after charges that the site listed projects with licenses that go against open source principles.


Open Source Census Begins Today

The tech community moves one step closer to a clearer picture of just how widespread the use of open source software is with today's launch of the Open Source Census by software vendor OpenLogic.

The Open Source Census bills itself as the first collaborative, global project to count the number of installations for each open source software package. What can we hope to learn from the information collected? Apparently, quite a lot.