Open Source Delivers

Yesterday I spoke with Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst serving application development & delivery professionals at Forrester, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  Please check out the video, below, for Jeff’s [...]

Eucalyptus’s big open source move to Github has the tech media buzzing this week. Yet, it was only a few months ago that OpenStack and CloudStack were helping to stir [...]

With all the momentum around moving enterprise software to the cloud, I was curious about the level of support from the open source world, not just relating to the obvious [...]

Jenkins is an open source tool that provides continuous integration services for software development. With tens of thousands of active instances around the world, it has become the de facto [...]

In last month’s Open Source and Innovation webinar, Editor-in-Chief of CRM Outsiders Chris Bucholtz, and I had the opportunity to speak with the Olliance Group’s Greg Olsen, about various aspects [...]

Big companies have long been using popular open source projects – that’s nothing new.  What is new, however, are big companies taking on support of projects that already have a [...]

Open source doesn’t work the way media narratives would like it to. You can’t see an announcement of something, then measure its immediate success in the market, and draw final [...]

The rise of SaaS, software delivered as a service, is having an enormously disruptive impact on the software industry. Forrester Research estimates that spending on SaaS technology will double by [...]

Open source projects will be smaller, with fewer contributors – but there will be more new projects.   Large, multi-vendor projects such as OpenStack are typically formed in the early stages [...]