Recent Open Source Analysis
Buoyed by new funding, Openbravo hopes to net more ERP plaudits
The midmarket ERP vendor gained key validation for its commercial open source approach via a $12m series B investment. Not only does Openbravo now have money on hand to fund expansion, but it also has access to more advisers on how best to proceed.
MIS / Impact Report, 15 Aug 2008
China Martens Zmanda steps up enterprise assault with new Oracle support
The open source backup software specialist has made positive strides into the enterprise market recently with support for Exchange and SQL Server. However, new Oracle support has the potential to take it to the next level in its quest for growth.
MIS / Market Development, 13 Aug 2008
Simon Robinson SourceForge still searching for fuller return on open source software repository
Can the longtime open source brand move beyond media and e-commerce by leveraging its open source software communities?
MIS / Impact Report, 12 Aug 2008
Jay Lyman Alfresco beefs up efforts to be the open source alternative to SharePoint
The company has been positioning itself this way for a while, but it's adding more technical weight to this claim with the latest rev of its open source ECM software.
MIS / Market Development, 31 Jul 2008
Kathleen Reidy MindTouch refines open source business model, updates application wiki
The still-tiny startup is settling in as a provider of open source. The latest product rev also includes some business model 'enhancements.'
MIS / Market Development, 31 Jul 2008
Kathleen Reidy In the shade of lowered expectations and share price, who will capture Sun?
Sun seemed to have turned things around, but it reinforced skepticism with lowered margin expectations, which sank its share price. Will this create an opening for another player to buy the venerable tech company?
TDM / Target IQ, 31 Jul 2008
Jay Lyman Will Red Hat have to buy to meet aggressive growth targets?
The open source operating system and middleware vendor wants 50% of both markets by 2015. It may need to add to its portfolio if it is to convince enough new customers to convert.
TDM / Acquirer IQ, 30 Jul 2008
Matt Aslett For developers, Icesoft is still the cool kid on the RIA block
Icesoft is one of the few pure-play RIA framework vendors remaining. A thriving developer community and aggressive partnering have allowed this company to buck the shrinking market and hold its own.
MIS / Impact Report, 28 Jul 2008
Vishwanath Venugopalan Cisco acquires Pure Networks for $120m, challenges Home Networking 2.0 competition
How pure are Cisco's motives in buying Pure Networks' stock? Will we all have access to Network Magic for Home Network 2.0?
TDM / Deal Analysis, 23 Jul 2008
Steve Steinke EnterpriseDB has database cloud covered with RightScale
MIS / Analyst Note, 22 Jul 2008
Matt Aslett Jitterbit kicks commercial open source integration strategy up a notch
When it becomes generally available in early August, Jitterbit 2.0 will take the shape of a pure open source integration offering and a commercial opposite number. What's the difference, and how is its business faring?
MIS / Market Development, 18 Jul 2008
Krishna Roy Talend moves beyond open source integration into data quality, touts progress
The introduction of an open source data profiler marks the startup's first dip into the data-quality waters. What is it, what's coming down the line, and how is it doing on the business front?
MIS / Market Development, 16 Jul 2008
Krishna Roy Engine Yard raises $15m for open source ride with Ruby on Rails, cloud
MIS / Analyst Note, 15 Jul 2008
Jay Lyman Open source Web conferencing play Dimdim ramps up products and adds $6m series B
The company is busy adding features that it hopes will take it to 'feature parity' with the incumbents in this sector – but in open source, free and low-cost models. New funding will support this mission.
MIS / Market Development, 15 Jul 2008
Kathleen Reidy JasperSoft gets more enterprise-ready, shares some roadmap plans
We take a look inside JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition, the latest version of its paid-for open-source-based BI suite, and examine the startup's progress and some future product developments.
MIS / Market Development, 11 Jul 2008
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