Are mobile Linux and open source finally for real?
We delve into this question and look at how mobile Linux and a general move toward openness in the mobile industry are coinciding with the disruption of Apples iPhone and resulting mobile combat with ....... Read more 8 days ago
451 CAOS Links 2008.11.11
open source ERP comes of age. openbravo hits one million downloads. The Force is with Red Hat. BitTorrent in crisis. And more.
Press releases
openbravo hits one million downloads openbravo
Actuate 10 ....... Read more 8 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Music Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Based on the developments of the past year, the future of music may very well be free. T ....... Read more 8 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Travel Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
There are tons of ways to go about planning your travel online, from finding the lowest ....... Read more 8 days ago
Recent 451 open source research
Im in Boston this week attending The 451 Groups third annual client conference, which means there wont be much time for blogging.
In lieu of a post today I thought Id provide a view of the open so ....... Read more 9 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Places and Events Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Organizing events and helping users decide where to go is a big category, encompassing r ....... Read more 9 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Start Page?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Do you still use a traditional start page? With alternatives like RSS readers, social ne ....... Read more 9 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Video Sharing Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
In the US alone, more than 11 billion videos are viewed online every month. While nearly ....... Read more 9 days ago
Data Protection for Today?s Economy: Amber Road and Zmanda
Today Sun announced the new 7000 line (aka Amber Road) of open storage appliances. Amber Road runs openSolaris and ZFS on industry-standard x86 hardware and includes innovative management software dev ....... Read more 9 days ago
New in the Maker Shed: Jimmie Rodger's open Heart Kit
If you built a kit in the Maker Shed at Maker Faire Austin, you might have gotten some help from Jimmie Rodgers, the creator of one of the newest additions to the Maker Shed Store, the open Heart ....... Read more 12 days ago
CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.11.07
Topics for this podcast:
* MuleSource, Progress and SpringSource stir open source in SOA
* Terracotta grows JVM clustering with open source
* European perspectives on open source
* Canonicals Ubuntu ....... Read more 12 days ago
451 CAOS Links 2008.11.07
A busy week for Sun includes new product releases and an annual shareholders meeting. Microsoft tries to unseat open source with BizSpark for entrepreneurs. Who is making money from open source? Obam ....... Read more 12 days ago
Ballmer?s upside down thinking on open source
For all the positive steps taken by Microsoft in relation to open source in recent years it is hard to escape the feeling that the companys senior executives still just dont get it.
Steve Ballmer ad ....... Read more 12 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Photo Sharing Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Recently, we all got some perspective on just how huge online photo sharing has become ? ....... Read more 12 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Sports & Fitness Site?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Sports Fitness is a broad category, encompassing the dozens of social networks designe ....... Read more 12 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Search Engine?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
There?s no shortage of startups hoping to be the next Google ? or at least (for the ones ....... Read more 12 days ago
Sun still radiating open source
Sun Microsystems always seems to be forced to defend itself, whether it is the companys ongoing strategy amid dimmed revenue and earnings or its participation in open source. As one who recently cons ....... Read more 13 days ago
Christensen?s law in the context of open source business models
I wrote yesterday that Christensen?s law of Conservation of Attractive Profits could be used to explain why open source vendors are increasingly turning to hybrid development and licensing strategies ....... Read more 13 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Social Bookmarking Tool?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
Finding better ways to store and organize our favorite websites is a problem that servic ....... Read more 13 days ago
What?s Your Favorite Social Networking Application?
This article is part of the open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services.
While social networking applications were all the rage last year, backlash ensued in 200 ....... Read more 13 days ago