| XAware, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, ebizQ | 29 Oct 2008 8:12 AM | |
| XAware featured in latest ebizQ podcast by billm | Comment (0) |
Blogs | XAware, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, ebizQ | 29 Oct 2008 8:12 AM | |
| XAware featured in latest ebizQ podcast by billm | Comment (0) |
| Open Source Business Models, Open Source | 12 Jun 2008 3:19 PM | |
| Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream by billm | Comment (0) |
Interesting article from Infoworld that both validates our beliefs and addresses some of our challenges…

| Open Source Business Models, Open Source | 26 Mar 2008 6:57 PM | |
| Tim Harvey from OSBC - Open Source at the Tipping Point by billm | Comment (0) |
Tim Harvey is at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco this week. He sent me this note from OSBC to share with our community:
Open Source at the Tipping Point?
This is my 2nd year attending the Open Source Business Conference. While much of what I heard last year
| Open Source Business Models | 11 Feb 2008 10:11 PM | |
| Tim Harvey from Open Source Think Tank 2008 by billm | Comment (0) |
Tim Harvey sent me this dispatch from Napa Valley. Enjoy:
Thoughts and impressions from Open Source Think Tank 2008
This past week I attended an Open Source Think Tank hosted by The Olliance Group and DLA Piper and sponsored by among others Microsoft and Sun. There were at least 100 invited guests including more than 40 CEO of companies w
| XAware, SAP, Salesforcecom, SaaS, Oracle, Open Source Business Models, Data Integration, BEA | 8 Feb 2008 10:05 AM | |
| Applications Integrate Integration by billm | Comment (0) |
SaaS HR and Financial applications provider WorkDay announced last week that it is acquiring web services-based integration middleware vendor Cape Clear Software . Analyst The 451 Group 's coverage of this announcement
| XAware, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, Data Services | 7 Feb 2008 8:52 AM | |
| Dana Blankenhorn on "Plumbing" by billm | Comment (0) |
In the post Where open source is most vital by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn, he discusses how:
"Open source is vital to an enterprise's data plumbing because it results in open standards. Not only does open source plumbing make standards transpa
| Sun, RedHat, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, MySQL | 22 Jan 2008 8:06 AM | |
| Is This The Battle for Open Source Supremacy? by billm | Comment (0) |
The industry pundits are lining up behind the idea that Sun's aquisition of MySQL last week is setting up a battle between Red Hat and Sun for open source supremacy. Is it? Maybe. It would be interesting to hear from a fly on the wall what is being said about this in places like IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP,
| Sun, Oracle, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, MySQL, BEA | 16 Jan 2008 8:13 AM | |
| Big Day for Big Changes in the Software Industry by billm | Comment (0) |
OK, which is the bigger headline?
Oracle Buys BEA Systems for $8.5 Billion
My vote is for "Sun buys MySQL". Why, you ask; this is the s
| Recession, Open Source Business Models, Matt Assay | 15 Jan 2008 2:35 PM | |
| Will Recession be Good for Open Source? by billm | Comment (0) |
Matt Assay suggests in his Cnet, The Open Road blog today that open source may be somewhat recession proof, and open source uptake might even be aided by the needs for IT to reduce spending during a recession, but commercial ope
| The 451 Group, SOA, Open Source Business Models, Open Source, Data Services, Data Integration | 12 Jan 2008 2:45 PM | |
| The Daily 451 Covers XAware by billm | Comment (0) |
Analyst "The 451 Group" covered XAware's move to open source in its Market Insight Service - Impact Report on Monday, 7 Jan 2008. If you are a 451 subscriber you can access the report here .
Here is their summary: