On the 18th of November we've hold in Milan an event focused on
Open Source Data Warehousing.
For many organizations, data warehouses are simply too costly to
buy, too costly to implement and too costly to maintain. Data
warehousing is still a luxury of deep-pocketed organizations,
although the resulting benefits can be virtually reaped by
companies of all sizes.
Open Source Software is changing the rules again, lowering the
economic barriers to undertake Business Intelligence and Data
Warehousing projects.
During the event we proved that MySQL can help organizations to
achieve higher ROI on their projects. With the support of our
partners, Infobright and Talend, we showed how to design, deploy and
manage a multi-terabyte Data Warehouse with Open Source
Software.
Participants have shown a …
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Savio Rodrigues has published a post arguing that cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure pose a threat to the monetization of open source by specialist vendors.
Savio makes a good case based on the recent launch of AWS’s Relational Database Service, based on MySQL, and Microsoft’s support for MySQL and Tomcat on Azure:
“When Amazon decided to offer MySQL via Amazon RDS, they did so without purchasing MySQL support from Sun. I’ve confirmed that Microsoft Azure is supporting MySQL on Azure without paying Sun for a MySQL Enterprise subscription.”
Clearly there is a threat to open source vendors from cloud-based services. Meanwhile I have previous …
[Read more]Google launches Chromium project, Terracotta acquires Quartz. And more.
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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
# Google launched the Chromium OS open source project, a prelude to the Chrome OS, while Canonical confirmed that it is contributing to the development of Chrome OS.
# Terracotta …
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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
# Larry Augustin was confirmed as full-time CEO of SugarCRM.
# Red Hat, by way of the Fedora Project, announced the launch of Fedora 12.
# Microsoft is to …
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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
Symbian’s future in the balance?
The H reported
that Samsung is to abandon Symbian in favour of Windows Mobile,
Android and the new Samsung bada OS, while Samsung later denied that …
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. …
[Read more]Below is a rough draft of the cornerstone slide for a new presentation deck I am putting together to explain the various business strategies for monetizing open source software. The aim is to explain every single existing strategy using the elements on this one slide (although I am yet to test it out).
In our previous discussions about business strategies we have noted that there are four elements that shape a business strategy around open source software: the open source software license; the development strategy; the end user license strategy; and the revenue trigger.
As can be seen from the slide above, I have added a fifth element: copyright control. Copyright was previously considered in our research around business strategies but was seen more as an underlying influence than a distinct strategy element.
I have recently come to the realisation that copyright control is not just a part of each of the four elements, and …
[Read more]Objectional statements on Oracle-Sun-MySQL. How Google uses Linux. And more.
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Objectional statements
The European Commission communicated its Statement of Objections
to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems to those
involved, prompting Oracle to claim the EC has a profound misunderstanding of
database competition and open source, the US DoJ to reiterate its position
that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is unlikely to be
anticompetitive and an EC spokesperson to explain that concern
over …
Funambol acquires Zapatec. Open source gains Closure. And more.
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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
# Funambol acquired Zapatec, an AJAX web 2.0 frameworks vendor.
# The top ten issues facing open source users, according to Mark Radcliffe.
# Google …
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# Yahoo! Open! Sourced! Traffic! Server!
# Red Hat launched Enterprise Virtualization for Servers for managing Linux and Microsoft Windows servers.
# 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, has …
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