Recent Open Source Analysis
Nuxeo adds DAM and invests in premium services as model evolves
While the product line available from this open source ECM player gets broader, the vendor continues to define its strategy. Initiatives with the most potential for revenue growth tie to SaaS, cloud deployment and its partner program.
MIS / Market Development, 4 Feb 2010
Kathleen Reidy Makara puts cloud application management in its virtual capsule
Using its virtual software layer for application onboarding and management in cloud computing environments, Makara says it can reduce time and trouble while enabling cloud portability for enterprise organizations.
MIS / Impact Report, 2 Feb 2010
Jay Lyman, Dennis Callaghan Calpont scales up and out with InfiniDB Enterprise
Having launched its open source, column-oriented data warehouse for the MySQL database in October 2009, the vendor has followed up with the scale-out Enterprise version.
MIS / Impact Report, 29 Jan 2010
Matt Aslett Coraid reels in new management and funding; ramps up EtherDrive storage sales
The Ethernet-based storage specialist has quietly sold its systems to more than 1,000 customers in key markets such as hosting, government and education. Will the infusion of VC funding and a new management team push Coraid into the limelight?
MIS / Impact Report, 27 Jan 2010
Henry Baltazar DeviceVM's Splashtop turns 2.0 and broadens consumer netbook reach
The four-year-old 'instant-on' OS company has been scoring OEM deals at a steady clip, and that momentum doesn't seem to be slowing. In consumer markets, that is.
MIS / Impact Report, 26 Jan 2010
Karin Kelley, Rachel Chalmers Zarafa targets Exchange users with Linux-based Outlook and smartphone support
The company is growing in Europe and elsewhere with its open source Exchange replacement software providing Outlook and smartphone support, but can it broaden out in the face of open source competition and Exchange dominance?
MIS / Impact Report, 25 Jan 2010
Jay Lyman ScaleDB on track to deliver shared-disk clustering for MySQL
Unperturbed by Oracle's imminent ownership of the MySQL database, ScaleDB is continuing its development of database-clustering technology that will enable MySQL to challenge Oracle's Real Application Clusters.
MIS / Market Development, 22 Jan 2010
Matt Aslett With EC approval, Oracle is set to outline its strategy for Sun
MIS / Analyst Note, 21 Jan 2010
Matt Aslett KnowledgeTree focuses on partners, new products and the cloud for 2010
The open source document management play keeps quietly growing its business, providing an alternative to SharePoint in the SMB space.
MIS / Market Development, 20 Jan 2010
Kathleen Reidy Sauce Labs spreads open source Selenium to ease, speed Web development tests
The vendor is attempting to leverage the popular Selenium Web application and browser testing software, which is open source, by building both community and development and commercialization around it.
MIS / Impact Report, 20 Jan 2010
Jay Lyman VMware grows cloud stack, sends message with Zimbra buy
Whether cloud stack expansion by application, an effort to tap the target's service provider following or both, the acquisition has implications for competing cloud vendors.
TDM / Deal Analysis, 12 Jan 2010
Jay Lyman, China Martens Novell lessens Linux push for Intelligent Workload Management strategy
The company is leveraging its collective assets in identity and security, systems management, and OS for enterprise workload creation and management, but will it lose sight of the benefits of supporting SUSE Linux in the process?
MIS / Market Development, 12 Jan 2010
Jay Lyman JasperSoft eyes the enterprise with latest commercial open source BI suite
We lift the lid on JasperSoft v3.7, which marks the debut of the Enterprise Edition package, and examine how the purveyor of open-source-based BI software's business is faring.
MIS / Market Development, 12 Jan 2010
Krishna Roy OpenLogic offers code scanning and compliance, community Linux support
The company has managed to survive with its support of open-source stacks and software business, but will code scanning and support of CentOS and other community Linux allow it to build bigger in the enterprise?
MIS / Market Development, 8 Jan 2010
Jay Lyman JetBrains has an open-source IDEA that could expand its profile
The company hit the headlines in late 2009 with plans to launch an open-source version of its popular IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment. This report examines the company's open-source licensing strategy.
MIS / Impact Report, 6 Jan 2010
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