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SAP's never-ending product development cycle (~3 years at $1 billion) for their new product has resulted in a hosted system built on top of Netweaver. The amazing part is they have created a system designed specifically to not be open to develop
Being that Matt is the most prolific person I know most of our readers don't care that I am not posting much. Much of reluctance has been because of a hand/wrist pain that makes it hard to type. My 2 months of excruciating pain turns out to be c
The telecom company will team up with Sun, providing parts of its server development to the Glassfish community to help in developing open-source apps for mobile networks
I was going to post on this article in today's WSJ, but Paul beat me to it. The WSJ doesn't call out the underlying problem, but points to a surface problem in today's web companies...at least, for the VCs that invest in them. Namely,
I just went through the attendee list for the Open Source Business Conference and loved what I saw. For the first time, OSBC is truly drawing a deep bench of IT buyers. It's something that we have strived for since the first show (well, the seco
In his annual post (sorry, Larry - couldn't help myself :-), Larry has tracked open source venture investments and posted the results: over $1B in open source investments in the last three years alone. If we add in investments prior to 2004 (whi
Sun is proposing that companies find ways to pay open source developers for their work. What a novel concept! At the CommunityOne and NetBeansDay events in San Francisco on Monday, Rich Green, Sun executive vice president for software, expressed doub
Red Hat just announced the winners of its Innovation Awards, and the results show that Linux has a very bright future in the enterprise. I was fortunate to be one of the judges, and was/am impressed by the variety of interesting uses to which compani
Sun will work with the open-source community to rewrite 'encumbered' components to replace the current closed-source code