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Periscope

Welcome to another edition of 451 CAOS Insight Update, a biweekly newsletter of The 451 Group's Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service. This newsletter includes a summary of our latest open source related research, and information on our biweekly CAOS client conference call.

As part of The 451 Group's CAOS Research Service, we will be hosting a biweekly conference call for CAOS clients. This call will include a roundup of top issues in open source by 451 open source analysts Raven Zachary, Jay Lyman, and Matthew Aslett. The conference call will be in listen-only mode, although we encourage you to send questions and topics in advance via email and we will do our best to address them during the call. As we are still in the process of refining this new offering, we'd love to get your feedback on the format and content.

Archives of past calls can be accessed via the CAOS Client Conference Call page in MP3 format. Please do not distribute this URL or the dial-in information below outside of your organization, as this is a client-only offering.

Biweekly CAOS Client Conference Call

Friday, May 9th, 2008

10am PT/11am MT/12noon CT/1pm ET/6pm UK

30 minutes

Topics for the call:

-Black Duck Software acquires Koders

-Sun, IONA, Sourcefire, and Actuate announce quarterly results

-Sun's new OpenSolaris push

-Adobe and the Open Screen Project

...and more...

USA Toll-Free:1.800.704.9804

Direct Dial: 1.404.920.6604

United Kingdom Freephone: 0808 101 4879

Your Conference ID was sent by email. If you did not receive your conference ID or it has been misplaced, please send an email to Raven Zachary.

Please add this call to your calendar as a recurring meeting - every other Friday beginning on April 25th. We understand that not everyone will be able to dial-in for all of the calls.

Thank you!

7 May 2008
Raven Zachary

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Recent Open Source Analysis

Sun shines on a more 'social' Liferay in the portal market

In conjunction with the 5.0 release of its open source portal code, Liferay has announced a relationship with Sun Microsystems that will see the two sharing portal code moving forward.

MIS / Market Development, 9 May 2008

Kathleen Reidy

Embarcadero embarks on a new path with CodeGear acquisition

The database tools vendor sees the acquisition of CodeGear's developer tools business as an opportunity to create hybrid products that boost the productivity of developers and database administrators alike. Will the market buy this rationale?

TDM / Deal Analysis, 7 May 2008

Vishwanath Venugopalan, Brenon Daly

Sun spreads OpenSolaris light through community release, commercial support

The company is promoting and providing commercial support for its community operating system, OpenSolaris, but will this help it counter the charge of Linux, which continues to eat into Solaris' share of the market?

MIS / Market Development, 6 May 2008

Jay Lyman

ScaleDB aims to take MySQL to new heights

Database startup ScaleDB is working on a new storage engine that will bring shared-disk clustering and advanced indexing techniques to Sun's MySQL database.

MIS / Impact Report, 5 May 2008

Matt Aslett

Open source security play Untangle ties up Kaspersky OEM deal

Untangle and its open source approach to SMB security software just got a boost from AV player Kaspersky, but will it help Untangle mix it up with larger, established rivals in the space?

MIS / Market Development, 2 May 2008

Jay Lyman

Novell plugs into Linux management with Microsoft, SUSE Linux appliances

Microsoft and Novell are working to expand their Linux systems management. Novell is also jumping on the Linux-based software appliance bandwagon with its SUSE Linux Enterprise software, but will its Linux offerings stand apart?

MIS / Market Development, 1 May 2008

Jay Lyman

Licensing row eclipses Sun's first MySQL update

Sun Microsystems' recent announcement of the first update to its recently acquired MySQL open source database was overshadowed by a row with the user community about plans to limit some forthcoming features to paying customers.

MIS / Impact Report, 30 Apr 2008

Matt Aslett

Black Duck takes Koders under its wing to enrich developer offerings

Software IP management vendor Black Duck makes its first acquisition to broaden its positioning as enterprises grow more comfortable with using open source software. What else does Black Duck have up its sleeve?

TDM / Deal Analysis, 28 Apr 2008

Vishwanath Venugopalan

Terracotta adds cluster visualization with version 2.6

Java virtual machine clustering vendor Terracotta has added cluster monitoring and management capabilities with version 2.6 of its open source software.

MIS / Market Development, 28 Apr 2008

Matt Aslett

Trolltech adds mobile capability to its Qt development platform

Linux tools vendor Trolltech, soon to be merged into Nokia, now has two platforms that 'do mobile.' Qtopia is specifically a mobile Linux device platform, but the company has now added Windows CE support to its core desktop development suite, Qt.

MIS / Market Development, 28 Apr 2008

Tony Rizzo

Colosa offers commercial open source BPM alternative

From the insurance industry, by way of as unlikely a place as La Paz, Bolivia, comes Colosa, a commercial open source business process management software vendor.

MIS / Impact Report, 25 Apr 2008

Dennis Callaghan

SnapLogic lifts head above the parapet in commercial open source data integration

The open source startup has come out more formally with the introduction of its first commercial offering as part of SnapLogic 2.0. Where does SnapLogic fit in the overall data integration landscape?

MIS / Impact Report, 24 Apr 2008

Krishna Roy

That was quick: Ringside Networks names CEO

MIS / Analyst Note, 22 Apr 2008

Kathleen Reidy

Red Hat capping 'tough' consumer desktop Linux efforts for now

Both the Linux server leader and rival Novell are backing off plans and expectations for consumer desktop Linux – but are they right to cede consumer PCs to Windows and Mac, at a time when new form factors favor Linux?

MIS / Market Development, 22 Apr 2008

Jay Lyman

Microsoft and Novell get even chummier for China, virtualization

MIS / Analyst Note, 22 Apr 2008

Jay Lyman

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