Recent Open Source Analysis
First rev of Acquia's commercially supported Drupal hits the market
Not-quite-one-year-old Acquia, which is run in part by Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert, is releasing the first version of its Drupal code with the associated support network. Will customers sign up?
MIS / Market Development, 30 Sep 2008
Kathleen Reidy, Anne Nielsen Profitable open source WCM vendor eZ Systems continues expansion
After eight years, the Norway-based company has achieved two quarters of profitability with a revamped subscription-focused business model and many channel partners. Now it has its eyes on the US.
MIS / Impact Report, 29 Sep 2008
Kathleen Reidy, Anne Nielsen Social software play Ringside Networks down for the count
MIS / Analyst Note, 29 Sep 2008
Kathleen Reidy No new news for Red Hat's Q2
MIS / Analyst Note, 24 Sep 2008
Brenon Daly Untangle pulls open source security line to Windows with Re-Router
The company says it can reach more SMBs with its free and open source security software, but will these customers be willing to pay?
MIS / Market Development, 22 Sep 2008
Jay Lyman Enomaly will flip its business model to pursue cloud ambitions
The cloud computing pioneer will raise money and transition from a consulting operation to a product and services shop.
MIS / Impact Report, 19 Sep 2008
William Fellows Infobright bags $10m series C round and makes first foray into open source warehousing
The data warehouser now has Sun on board as a minority investor as a result of closing its latest funding and has expanded its lineup into the open source arena. We examine these developments together with the startup's business progress.
MIS / Impact Report, 19 Sep 2008
Krishna Roy Sun delays first MySQL update until year-end
In April, Sun Microsystems announced that the first update to the recently acquired MySQL database would be available in the second quarter. Five months later, its delivery has been delayed until the end of the year.
MIS / Impact Report, 15 Sep 2008
Matt Aslett Essentia builds out open source forges, community and commercial prospects
More open source projects and vendors are building out their own community destination sites for both developers and users, also known as forges. Can Essentia provide a common path to forge ahead to enterprise revenue?
MIS / Impact Report, 12 Sep 2008
Jay Lyman Microsoft, Novell tune SUSE Linux guest support in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
MIS / Analyst Note, 12 Sep 2008
Jay Lyman Actuate unveils latest BI and performance management wares, touts open source progress
The enterprise reporting veteran has refreshed its flagship BI stack and performance management product. What's inside Actuate 10 and Views 8, and how is its business, including that in commercial open source reporting, shaping up?
MIS / Impact Report, 9 Sep 2008
Krishna Roy Red Hat challenges 'virtualization only' players with $107m Qumranet buy
Pitching itself head-to-head with Microsoft, Red Hat says the integration of OS and hypervisor is essential and requires ownership of both. Qumranet gives it access to both hypervisor and desktop virtualization technology.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 4 Sep 2008
John Abbott Fonality dials up $12m funding for open source telephony and communications
MIS / Analyst Note, 4 Sep 2008
Jay Lyman Google looks to polish the Web experience with Chrome
By releasing its own fresh take on the Web browser, Google is looking to own the client-side experience for its services. But what else about Google's ambitions does this release reveal?
MIS / Market Development, 2 Sep 2008
Vishwanath Venugopalan Continuent hopes Tungsten will light the way to database scale-out
Database clustering vendor Continuent has launched Tungsten, a new open source project that is designed to enable the horizontal scaling of low-cost database management systems.
MIS / Market Development, 29 Aug 2008
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