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Matt Asay nods approvingly at a recent study saying more CIOs plan to invest in Red Hat and JBOSS technology.

Well and good. Just don’t break out the champagne.

Open source may be doing well with a shrinking waterhole but that does not necessarily mean it is doing well.

Open source and the shrinking waterhole | Open Source | ZDNet.com

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/821/open-source-and-the-shrinking-waterhole/feed/ 0 Carahsoft Awarded U.S. DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Contract for Open Source Solutions http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:43:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/ Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense ESI Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Open Source Solutions. The contract encompasses software and support services from Red Hat, JBoss, Alfresco, Pentaho, MySQL, and CollabNet.

“This BPA is significant on several levels, as it affirms open source as an enterprise-ready alternative to proprietary software,” explained Paul Smith, vice president of government operations at Red Hat. “The BPA offers DoD customers access to a broad base of industry leading open source solutions, enabling agencies to not only cut cost out of their operations, but improve their services at the same time.”

Carahsoft Awarded U.S. DoD Enterprise Software Initiative Contract for Open Source Solutions – MSNBC Wire Services – msnbc.com

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/757/carahsoft-awarded-us-dod-enterprise-software-initiative-contract-for-open-source-solutions/feed/ 0 Interviews: Red Hat on Misconceptions, Realities of Open Source Middleware http://www.theopenanalyst.com/655/interviews-red-hat-on-misconceptions-realities-of-open-source-middleware/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/655/interviews-red-hat-on-misconceptions-realities-of-open-source-middleware/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:54:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/655/interviews-red-hat-on-misconceptions-realities-of-open-source-middleware/

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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 open source middleware with IT Business Edge’s Loraine Lawson.

Lawson: What sort of announcements are you looking at? Are you tweaking existing products or introducing new products?

Muzilla: There are a couple tweakings of product offerings. One is a project, an open source project called JBoss Mass. It’s really software that helps one migrate from an existing middleware platform or application service platform, more specifically to a JBoss application server platform. If you’re a customer running and you have developed a bunch of applications on WebLogic, for instance, but you want to introduce open source and want to introduce JBoss into your organization, this tool will allow a company to more easily migrate the configuration associated with that WebLogic instance to a JBoss instance. So it’s really something that helps organizations make the transition a little easier.

Interviews: Red Hat on Misconceptions, Realities of Open Source Middleware

]]> http://www.theopenanalyst.com/655/interviews-red-hat-on-misconceptions-realities-of-open-source-middleware/feed/ 0 Open source becomes paid software in 2009 http://www.theopenanalyst.com/141/open-source-becomes-paid-software-in-2009/ http://www.theopenanalyst.com/141/open-source-becomes-paid-software-in-2009/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:28:00 +0000 TheOpenAnalyst http://www.theopenanalyst.com/?p=141 One of the biggest misconceptions in software is that open source equals free. The early commercial open-source vendors like MySQL and JBoss were able to build decent businesses on top of a license/support-only business model, but over time we’ve seen that approach become difficult to grow beyond a certain threshold.

I suspect that in 2009 it will start becoming clearer as to what you pay for and why you should. Redmonk analyst Michael Cote made the prediction that next year “it will be cool to pay for software” and I agree. It’s one thing to consume open-source software and quite another to pay for it.
Open source becomes paid software in 2009 | Business Tech – CNET News

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