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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.


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.