There was some incredulity expressed yesterday when I suggested that SAP is a great case study on the way in which proprietary companies have engaged with open source.

To be clear, I was not suggesting that SAP is, or should be considered, an open source company, but based on our understanding of SAP’s changing strategy with regards to open source software it represents a good case study on how proprietary companies have learned that it is in their best interests to contribute to open source software projects.

Jay and I had the opportunity yesterday to speak to Claus von Riegen, SAP director of technology standards and open source, and Erwin Tenhumberg, SAP open source program manager. Our formal …

Regular visitors to the 451 CAOS Theory blog will be well aware of The 451 Group’s CAOS (Commercial Adoption of Open Source) research service and our CAOS long-form reports.

They are probably less aware of the open source coverage that The 451 Group provides on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis, however, and I thought it would be worthwhile to provide some examples of The 451 Group’s ongoing open source coverage by highlighting a few recent reports.

The company’s core services are 451 Market Insight Service, which delivers daily insight into emerging enterprise IT markets, and 451 TechDealmaker, a forward-looking weekly …

Shuttleworth steps down as Canonical CEO. Open source at SAP. And more.

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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask

# Mark Shuttleworth explained why he is stepping down as CEO of Canonical.

# Groklaw published The EU and Microsoft Settle Browser Issue; Interoperability with FOSS Still a Problem. …

Chrome OS and Andoid to merge - eventually. Oracle and SpringSource propose Eclipse OSGi project. And more.

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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask

# Gizmodo reported that Chrome OS and Android are destined to merge, somehow.

# Q&A with open government activist David Eaves about Portland’s …

Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion written about Oracle’s impending ownership of MySQL and its impact on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as MySQL’s business model, dual licensing and the GPL.

In order to try and bring some order to the conversation, we have brought together some of the most referenced blog posts and news stories in chronological order.

Part one took us from the announcement of the EC’s in-depth investigation up to the eve of the communication of the EC’s Statement of Objections.

Part two, below, takes us from there to the eve of the announcement of Oracle’s concessions. …

Yahoo opens up Hadoop distribution. Microsoft and Novell claim customer wins. And more.

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The elephant in the room
Plenty of news emerged form the Hadoop Summit this week, including Cloudera announced support for Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and introduced Sqoop, open source tool for importing databases into Hadoop, while Yahoo! Released! The! Yahoo! Distribution! Of! Hadoop! opening up its Hadoop developments to the wider community. As Savio Rodrigues noted, there has been a surge in the number of contributors for the Hadoop project in the last year.

Best of the rest
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Spring forward. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.

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A Spring in its step
SpringSource boasted of rapid revenue growth while CEO Rod Johnson claimed that Red Hat’s Open Choice initiative is defensive response to SpringSource, a suggestion that was denied by Rich Sharples.

Freeloaders, leeches and hermits
I already provided my views earlier this week on Infoworld’s report about open source ‘leeches’ and corporate contributions. The debate continued as Dave Rosenberg …

Solaris Cluster comes bundled with rich support for numerous software applications.

Follow the link to see a list of all the Solaris Cluster Agents available in the latest release of  Solaris Cluster  - SC 3.2 01/09.
For most of these applications the latest versions are supported.  In this blog I specifically want to highlight the latest support
for the SAP NetWeaver stack and highlight some key features provided by Solaris Cluster to make SAP highly available on
Solaris.

Solaris Cluster 3.2 HA SAP Web Application Server agents now support SAP 7.1 on S10 SPARC and X64. You will need
patch# 126062-06 or later for S10 SPARC or patch# 126063-07 or later for S10 X64. This patch is required for the following
Resource Types (RTs) - SUNW.sapenq, SUNW.saprepl, SUNW.sapscs, …

Solaris Cluster comes bundled with rich support for numerous software applications.

Follow the link to see a list of all the Solaris Cluster Agents available in the latest release of  Solaris Cluster  - SC 3.2 01/09.
For most of these applications the latest versions are supported.  In this blog I specifically want to highlight the latest support
for the SAP NetWeaver stack and highlight some key features provided by Solaris Cluster to make SAP highly available on
Solaris.

Solaris Cluster 3.2 HA SAP Web Application Server agents now support SAP 7.1 on S10 SPARC and X64. You will need
patch# 126062-06 or later for S10 SPARC or patch# 126063-07 or later for S10 X64. This patch is required for the following
Resource Types (RTs) - SUNW.sapenq, SUNW.saprepl, SUNW.sapscs, …

Solaris Cluster comes bundled with rich support for numerous software applications.

Follow the link to see a list of all the Solaris Cluster Agents available in the latest release of  Solaris Cluster  - SC 3.2 01/09.
For most of these applications the latest versions are supported.  In this blog I specifically want to highlight the latest support
for the SAP NetWeaver stack and highlight some key features provided by Solaris Cluster to make SAP highly available on
Solaris.

Solaris Cluster 3.2 HA SAP Web Application Server agents now support SAP 7.1 on S10 SPARC and X64. You will need
patch# 126062-06 or later for S10 SPARC or patch# 126063-07 or later for S10 X64. This patch is required for the following
Resource Types (RTs) - SUNW.sapenq, SUNW.saprepl, SUNW.sapscs, …