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Open-source Plone communities are using 'sprints' -- highly focused development and testing meetings lasting several days -- to great effect
Zack asked: So perhaps a question that might be worth asking is if Windows and Office only costs $3 in China, how sustainable are it's prices in other markets? I remember reading about multinational companies consternating about selling online i
Some of you know that I've decided to track the demise ;-) of the traditional software market on a quarterly basis using IBM's WebSphere branded revenue as the basis. I use the WebSphere division for no other reason than it's the part
Just a heads up that Red Hat's Bill Burke (of JBoss fame previously) is blogging here. Bill does write about techie stuff at the JBoss Matrix, but this blog seems to go beyond the bits and bytes and get into things like: Should you start an OSS
A few weeks back, I posted a couple of blog entries on my recent trip to China. We have seen huge MySQL download numbers from Brazil, Russia, India, China (or "BRIC") with very significant growth in the last few years in China. I tried read
In a recent comment, Savio differs with my opinion on what customers are purchasing. I believe that companies don’t buy open-source products. Rather, I believe, they buy the support services and infrastructure that goes with those products. Sav
Matt asks (almost as an aside to a post on a related topic): My question: why not just buy Red Hat? Before Red Hat buys MySQL, and gives those database numbers a run for their money? Then, Larry Dingnan writes: A Credit Suisse analyst thinks BEA Syst
I'm not sure if we all got much hipper or AlwaysOn has expanded their reach but I am happy to see that several open source companies have made it to this year's AO 100 List. Azureus MuleSource Untangle Funambol I have to think that at least
Sometimes I just have to look away. Once in a while, I see something that I feel must be embarrassing to the person experiencing it and not wanting to be a rubbernecker I look aside. This happens to me a lot on the golf course when someone is having
On Wednesday July 18th the Dow Jones Enterprise Innovations Summit has a host of open source companies presenting. I will be there slinging heresy, hearsay and horror stories from the trenches. Presenting Companies (starting at 10:30am): MuleSource S