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As a follow-up to my earlier blog, I happened to get 15 minutes hands-on use of the Amazon Kindle, their new portable eBook reader. As it happens, Amazon's Lab 126 development team is located in the same building as MySQL's US headquarters,
One of the virtues often touted of open source is the idea of "release early & release often." Eric Raymond documented the Linux kernel team's use of this approach in detail in his book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." Whi
Easier said than done...converting your OSS user base. Read on, but that's the summary of this post. Joel Jackson of Red Hat said: "Do you think the genius of OSS is how we sell it? Seriously. How did you get a job blogging on open source m
Sun's new award program will involve the OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSparc, NetBeans, and OpenOffice.org communities
On my previous post about the scalability of the "support subscription" business model, Joel Jackson said: "I’m confused Savio...what don’t you understand about a software subscription annuity model? $200-500mill today in b
Okay, so not everyone agrees about my claim that the support-based OSS business model does not scale. :-) Matt said: "The open source doubters continue to underestimate the power of open source as a business model tool. And Savio, though normall
Mansour Safai, who passed away just over a year ago, is probably best known among the Java community for leading the development of the first Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Symantec's Visual Café. I had the pleasure of know
I made the claim that the support-based OSS business model doesn't scale. Shaun (of JBoss fame), disagrees. ======================== Hi Savio, Funny how your $250M and $500M numbers are where Red Hat was a while ago and where Red Hat is headed s
Two open source Java-based template engines compared