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Chris Keene of WakeMaker reached out to me in response to my Freetard post. Since then, I've been reading his blog and have learned a thing or two about his thoughts on Web 2.0 and why WaveMaker is addressing the market in the way they are. Chri
Nonprofit group aimed at fostering interoperability and adoption of open source software looks to shake off some growing pains
Red Hat will continue to focus on infrastructure software for the enterprise market
Just read about the launch of "The Open Source Census". This is the next step in OpenLogic's efforts to get a better sense of which OSS products are actually used in enterprises. Until now, the OSS product usage data we've seen ha
Which is better, Seam or Spring? Learn why you don't have to choose
At the MySQL Conference and Expo this week, we've seen new storage engines popping out of the woodwork and it caused me to wonder at what point MySQL went from being a product to a platform. From a technical perspective, you could argue that MyS
This week is the annual MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara and I'm happy to report that we have hit record numbers with more exhibitors (over 50) and more attendees (over 2,000) than ever before. Monday was primarily tutorials as well as
Dave's writes about a new report from Standish Group that claims: FOSS is costing traditional vendors $60B in annual revenues. Having spent 4+ years doing market forecasts, I can think of two key methodologies that Standish used to come up with
Compiere just released version 3.0 of its namesake product with "well over 150 improvements". If you're not familiar with Compiere (hey, how many of us purchase ERP products), think of Compiere as an open source alternative to SAP or O
Effort gets underway to collect data on the implementation of open-source software around the world