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Several universities have teamed together to build mission-critical software, which has long been the domain of proprietary apps, on open-source platforms
Jon Williams, CTO at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions, gave today's opening keynote at the OSBC conference in San Francisco. But this was not the usual boring vendor keynote seen at many conferences; this presentation was absolutely on target f
The answer may be no. But hey, this is a blog, so why let reality get in the way of a post?I don't have a history degree, so please correct me if I'm wrong. But, I can only imagine that pundits foretold of an unpleasant death for railroad c
Today at OSBC, the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual "Future of Open Source" survey were released. Try as I may, I could not find out who the respondents were (i.e. developers, CIOs, the Asay family, FSJ, etc) or wha
EnterpriseDB just raised $10M in Series C financing. IBM joined the list of investors including Fidelity Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Charles River Ventures. To date, EnterpriseDB has raised $37.5M (compared to the $39M that MySQL had raised in to
Agile best practices in Waterfall-based Java enterprise development
Tasktop and Protecode are two interesting startups I ran into at EclipseCON 2008. They are very different businesses, aimed at very different audiences. However, both are made possible by Eclipse ecosystem....It would be very interesting to estimate
The editors at InfoWorld have put together a virtual roundtable series of articles on open source this week to coincide with this week's OSBC conference. I wrote some comments responding to questions as did other folks including Matt Asay from A
I ended up with a nasty flu for two days this week so I missed out on EclipseCon held earlier this week. Interesting to see that Microsoft was at EclipseCon and Sam Ramji did one of the keynotes. While Microsoft doesn't appear to be practicing o
How much functionality (and how many plugins) can one IDE hold?