TheOpenAnalyst

When Nick Mailer helped found web-hosting provider The Positive Internet Company, he was instrumental in basing the firm’s activities on free and open-source software. Mailer talks to ZDNet UK about the response from business to that open-source decision.
Actor Stephen Fry’s support of Twitter has been credited with pushing the micro-blogging tool into the mainstream. But [...]

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Red Hat’s middleware division, JBoss, recently held a virtual conference to announce several product updates, including a new version of JBoss Portal Platform. It also unveiled plans to create a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. Craig Muzilla, vice president of JBoss, discussed these announcement and the issue of [...]

It’s not all about the code in the Linux ecosystem. Any Linux project needs leadership. Markus Rex is one such leader.
For most of the last year, Rex was the CTO of the Linux Foundation, on loan from his employer Novell. Now, he’s back with Novell, where he is responsible for Novell’s open source and open [...]

I received a press release from Fortify Software today, suggesting that in the face of growing calls for Government procurement officials to embrace open source projects, officials need to be wary, and insist on secure development processes for any open source considerations.
Here’s an excerpt:
President Obama’s Administration is being encouraged to embrace open source software, copying [...]

Four years after it was launched, SugarCRM now counts 4,000 customers of its commercial open source software. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently held its annual SugarCon conference for customers and developers. We caught up with CEO John Roberts, who discussed how SugarCRM is approaching cloud computing and open source applications in the cloud, mobile CRM, [...]

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a federated community of open source business and developer communities, opened in early December a community portal built upon technology from one of its newest member organizations, Essentia. The company develops software platforms and solutions for online communities and commerce.
The EssentiaESP is a community-engagement platform designed specifically for commercial open [...]

Matthew Sacks and Peter Kronowitt discuss how the Moblin project is innovating mobile software development and the future of the mobile device arena.
Peter Kronowitt is a software strategist for the Intel Open Source technology center and is involved in promoting open source software throughout and outside of Intel. In this interview with Matthew Sacks, Kronowitt [...]

25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out.
While Linus Torvalds gets most of the plaudits nowadays for the Linux kernel, it was Stallman who originally posted plans [...]

During the OSCAMP event in Beijing, I had a chance to talk to Cedric Thomas, the CEO of OW2 open source organization. Here’s an extract of our conversation:1. Can you tell me about the origins of the OW2 Consortium? We hear OW2 is the result of a merger between OrientWare and ObjectWeb.In 2002, a joint [...]

There’s no question that the open source community is a passionate one — and one with significant influence on technology directions and options. We’re way past the days when people asked if Linux or Apache was safe to depend on in business. Open source is now a mainstream part of the technology fabric.
Yet it remains [...]