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Open Source: Investments Flow Into Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Yesterday was a big day for Open Source investment funding. GreenPlum, Alfresco, and Zenoss all received investment dollars. Greenplum received $27 million from Meritech Capital partners, Sun Microsystems, SAP Ventures and others. Greenplum is an Open Source Postgresql-based database that

Open Source: Sun Shines With LAMP

By Dick Weisinger

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php/Perl) has long been considered a basic building block of the Internet. Last week Sun bought a piece of the LAMP with their agreement to purchase MySQL for $1 billion. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos along

Oracle: A Day of Acquisitions

By Dick Weisinger

January has been a down month for the market — even yesterday’s slew of tech merger announcements couldn’t reverse the trend: two acquisitions by Oracle, and one that has serious implications for Oracle. Oracle purchased BEA software for $8.5 billion.

Open Source: CEOs Predict Banner Year

By Dick Weisinger

Today the Open Solutions Alliance announced the results of their survey of predictions from leading Open Source company CEOs. Not too unpredictably, all CEOs are very high on the prospects for Open Source in 2008. Some of their predictions include:

Open Source: A Contrast to the Commercial Approach

By Dick Weisinger

Selling commercial enterprise software isn’t easy. With average sales cycles lasting six to eighteen months, the upfront sales and marketing investment to drum up interest and get the word out can be high. Contrast that with the model of Open