Open Source

The future of Java technology in the enterprise rests with its rapidly evolving ability to regain its original promise of lightweight, flexible and dynamic application development and deployment. In other words, the faster Java gets to the stackless stack, the brighter its future will be. As James Governor said in...

Last week at the Open World Forum, I had the pleasure of attending Michael Tiemann’s talk on the “Road to the Digital Recovery”. Michael kindly summarized his key points on his blog. The most interesting sound bite from Michael’s talk was his estimate that $1 trillion is wasted every year...

A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL. Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License, but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the OSI...

Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...

I’ve been thinking about posting on this topic for a while, and recent posts by Greg Stein and Eric Raymond have finally motivated me to get off my butt and git ‘er done. As I mentioned recently, the EPL is on a bit of a roll at the moment. And...

Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source, however...