Enterprise Innovation with Open Source
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| Open source provides a way for CIOs to invest in new system development
| without coding themselves into a corner. According to Mike Milinkovich,
| executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, enterprise users of technology
| are catching on to something the ISVs have known for a while now -- that if
| you develop in an open source model and other companies adopt what you
| develop, you have a higher chance of longevity in the code base.
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http://advice.cio.com/abbie_lundberg/enterprise_innovation_with_open_source
The state of open source:Javier Soltero, Hyperic
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| Hyperic CEO sees deep attention to developing business models as the key to
| open source's ultimate success
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;821134995;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
Ingres Strengthens Open Source BI Offering
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| Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management software,
| and Italy-based Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, creator of the open
| source SpagoBI platform and BPM conseil, have announced the completion of a
| technological partnership. As part of the agreement, the duo certified each
| other's products in order to strengthen their open source business
| intelligence solutions at the enterprise level.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/25901/news.htm
Software Partnership Leverages Open Source BI as Reporting and Analytics
Standard
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| JasperSoft announced that Cincom Systems has selected the JasperSoft Business
| Intelligence Suite to power all Cincom BI applications. Cincom will
| standardize on JasperSoft as its business intelligence platform across its
| software offerings, extending the value of BI and reporting to all Cincom
| customers.
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http://soa.sys-con.com/read/537252_p.htm
Here Comes the Open Source Metaverse
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| That thought occurred to me as I was attending the “Open Source Virtual
| Worlds” panel at last week’s Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in New York. Like
| Netscape, Linden Lab last year open-sourced its viewer code, which led to a
| number of unofficial versions, some of which have been reverse engineered to
| run on non-Linden servers. And at least one of them already looks
| significantly better in some respects than Linden’s official viewer.
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http://gigaom.com/2008/04/08/here-comes-the-open-source-metaverse/
Open source sex toys nearly crash servers
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| An odd thing happened at the office the other day -our sister-publication
| Computerworld’s internet servers were brought to the brink of crashing when a
| story on its website suddenly racked up an enormous number of hits.
|
| [...]
|
| To prove my theory I searched the phrase ”open source sex toys„ on Google and
| voilà the Computerworld story led the results (see image below).
|
| Now Computerworld editor Rob O’Neill will tell you the story was a hit
| because it was picked up Slashdot, but I’m not entirely convinced…
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http://blogs.reseller.co.nz/reseller/channelling/2008/04/open_source_sex_toys_nearly_cr.html
It's probably just the Slashdot effect.
Recent:
Today’s the day for open source venture funding
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| According to 451 CAOS Theory figures $80.5m worth of open source VC funding
| has been announced in the first 22 days of 2008, compared with $100.4m in the
| whole of the first quarter of 2007.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/01/22/todays-the-day-for-open-source-venture-funding/
Research: Open source M&A Comes of Age
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| Year Deal volume Significant deals
| 2007 30 Yahoo-Zimbra, Sourcefire-ClamAV, Citrix-XenSource, Red
| Hat-MetaMatrix
| 2006 22 Red Hat-JBoss, Oracle-Sleepycat
| 2005 15 Ingres carve-out, Oracle-Innobase, IBM-Gluecode
| 2004 3 Red Hat-Netscape Enterprise Business
| 2003 6 Novell-SUSE, Red Hat-Sistina
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http://linux.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/research-open-source-ma-comes-of-age/
Related:
Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell
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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item
Source of the revolution
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| According to Ghosh, the notional value of Europe's investment in
| free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) today is e22bn,
| representing 20.5pc of the region's total software investment.
| Spending on OSS stands at e36bn and accounts for 20pc of software
| expenditure in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8105
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