Enterprise Open Source

Zdnet reports today that Solaris is rumored to be open source. Linux has been hurting Solaris for years. I remember the time where Sun was tryting to sell SOlaris on Intel, I remember the time where they had this golden pepite named OpenStep, now Mac OS. Going open source just mean two things in this [...]

Today, the Apache Fondation announced that Apache OFBiz is now officially a top level project. OFBiz is more than just another open source ERP like Compiere ou ERP5. This is a set of components that enable the build of applications by assembling them. Some OFBiz components are already used to integrate Workflow or [...]

More and more open source software are maturing, proposing now competitive solutions to traditional closed source vendors. More and more closed source vendors… feel the heat .
The following table give an overview of Closed source leader for each market segment and their open source counterparts. The color gives the temperature , the arrow [...]

Looking at the VMware Technology Networks following a colleague advice, I discovered that since this summer hundreds of ready-to-download vmware appliances are available. I’m amazed of how VMware is good at marketing. Whatever, that’s not the point. The point is that on 169 community build appliances, 169 are running on top of open source operating [...]