There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week....
Open Source Delivers
Focus on Developers: The 2011 Open Source Rookies
“Over time, we’ll get more data, more powerful computers, and better predictive algorithms. We’ll also do better at helping group-level (as opposed to individual) decision making, since many organizations require consensus for important decisions. This means that the ‘market share’ of computer automated or mediated decisions should go up, and intuition’s market share should go [...]
OpenSaaS Brings New Freedom to the Cloud
The rise of SaaS, software delivered as a service, is having an enormously disruptive impact on the software industry. Forrester Research estimates that spending on SaaS technology will double by 2013, representing 16% of all software spend. Gartner Research estimates that SaaS software spend is growing at 18%, compounded annually, and will reach $23B by [...]
Support for New Emerging Languages
In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages. Another gratifying trend is the ‘almost natural’ step for language [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
As open source predictions for 2012 continue to be shared, some trends are already starting to emerge. AT&T has launched a new cloud offering, the mobile space saw the release of Tizen’s OS source code and open source methodologies are helping to advance the medical research field. Here are some highlights from these stories and [...]
Eclipse and Java: An Open Source Trend Analysis
2011 was a banner year for the open source community, especially for the Eclipse Foundation, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. In that vein, I decided to look at 2011 open source project trends and compare them to popular Eclipse projects. Using Ohloh.net, the free social directory of open source projects and developer resources (N.B.: Black [...]
Predictions 2012 – The View from an Open Source Foundation
Open source projects will be smaller, with fewer contributors – but there will be more new projects. Large, multi-vendor projects such as OpenStack are typically formed in the early stages of an emerging market. There have been a number of new collaborations around cloud technologies, but the growth this year will be in more focused [...]
2011: Top Ten FOSS Legal Developments
This year, 2011, was one of the most active years in legal developments in FOSS. This activity reflects the increase in FOSS use: Laura Wurster of Gartner, noted in the Harvard Business Review blog that open source has hit a “strategic tipping point” this year with companies increasingly focused on using “open source” software for [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
It’s the first week of 2012 and the open source world is starting the year off with a bang! Apache has launched Hadoop 1.0, Mozilla released the MPL 2.0 and NASA has started a new website to host their open source projects and encourage discussions around open source. Here is a sample of these stories [...]
The Light of the Open Source World to Come
In most markets it’s clear, as 2012 dawns, that there are usually two strong players. A proprietary company and open source. Windows and open source applications. The iPhone and Android. In each case open source has come up the stack, closer to the point of market control. This year we’ll find that control has been [...]
