Recent Open Source Analysis
New day to dawn at Adobe as it acquires Web content management player Day Software
As the content creation tools giant builds out a customer experience management platform, one gaping hole has been obvious – the lack of its own WCM. With the purchase of Day, Adobe will fill that gap and gain a lot more open source expertise.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 28 Jul 2010
China Martens, Matt Aslett Acquia tends to – and grows – its Drupal business
The vendor's new cloud-based website-building service, Drupal Gardens, expands its footprint in the Drupal world – where Acquia's customer base is already growing – and beyond.
MIS / Impact Report, 27 Jul 2010
Kathleen Reidy BonitaSoft thinks open source can make BPM more attractive
The company is growing both its community and its name in business process management – will open source allow it to 'democratize' BPM for a wider audience and opportunity?
MIS / Impact Report, 21 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman, Dennis Callaghan Puppet Labs gets $5m series B funding for open source automation software
MIS / Analyst Note, 20 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman Rackspace, NASA open-source more of the cloud with OpenStack
Open source software is a critical and common thread to cloud computing, but efforts such as OpenStack from Rackspace and NASA highlight even more pronounced use of and movement to open source for the cloud.
MIS / Market Development, 19 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman, Matt Aslett Rhomobile rolls ahead with Rhodes multi-smartphone development software
The company is growing the use and deployment of its Rhodes mobile development framework, balancing growth and opportunity among both consumers and enterprises.
MIS / Market Development, 14 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman, Chris Hazelton Open source strategy spotlight: Aras
Product lifecycle management vendor Aras has one of the more unusual open source strategies, not least because its products are only available for Windows.
MIS / Spotlight, 13 Jul 2010
Matt Aslett, Jay Lyman Protecode updates code-scanning and management software to ease adoption, grow channel
The company is readying the latest version of its software for code and license analysis – will the increased use of open source and an active M&A market give Protecode the growth it is seeking?
MIS / Market Development, 7 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman VoltDB in search of customers, funding for scalable SQL database
The latest creation of database pioneer Mike Stonebraker combines open source licensing and in-memory processing to deliver a new distributed transaction database.
MIS / Impact Report, 7 Jul 2010
Matt Aslett Private cloud builder Eucalyptus Systems raises $20m series B round
MIS / Analyst Note, 2 Jul 2010
Jay Lyman Red Hat virtualization offensive official with RHEV 2.2; is cloud offensive far behind?
After two beta versions of its KVM-based virtualization software, Red Hat is now offering the official release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2, furthering its rivalry with other virtualization and cloud players, particularly VMware.
MIS / Market Development, 30 Jun 2010
Jay Lyman, Dan Kusnetzky Cloudera delivers Enterprise extensions to Hadoop distribution
The vendor has delivered version 3 of its distribution of the open source Hadoop data management framework, as well as an Enterprise package including management and integration extensions.
MIS / Market Development, 29 Jun 2010
Matt Aslett Karmasphere takes big data intelligence to next level with enterprise-focused update
The company has launched two new versions of its Karmasphere Studio development and analytics environment for the Hadoop distributed data-processing framework.
MIS / Market Development, 29 Jun 2010
Matt Aslett Google Voice is now available to everyone, but isn't great on every smartphone
After five quarters of being offered only to invited users, Google's free telephony and PBX services are now available to anyone in the US or Canada.
MIS / Market Development, 25 Jun 2010
Chris Hazelton, Steve Steinke In the ESIM space, no one can hear you scream – AlienVault issues ESIM challenge
The ESIM vendor is looking to challenge existing players with its open source solution to an ever-present problem.
MIS / Impact Report, 25 Jun 2010
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