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Before: Century of Technology At the end of the last century, those who had accumulated the most brilliant technological inventions became the leaders of the world of enterprise software today. Oracle, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, and hundreds of other successful companies have created the industry based on proprietary Intellectual Property (IP) and patents. What has the open source movement [...] - [Read more]

I’m sitting at McCarran International Airport, waiting for my red-eye to Boston. Last night I stumbled into Doug Levin of Black Duck Software at Mandalay Bay’s Starbucks. The first thing Doug told me was that “Next Monday we are announcing acquisition of Koders.Com”. Doug’s fledging company now has a search engine for open source software [...] - [Read more]

Oracle is chasing SAP like never before. Now, thousands of Hyperion customers who run SAP will view their business through an Oracle/Hyperion BI “lens.” Tony Baer posted a good review about the transaction. I can’t disagree with Tony about further market consolidation and Business Objects/Cognos being the two BI leaders left out there. Two years [...] - [Read more]

I just got back from Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World 2008, where I was speaking on the future of mashups. This year’s conference was cool, with many attendees wearing shorts and hanging out in Chicago at night. The event is much smaller than mega events like Oracle World, but you can see the geeks here and there. Speaking of Oracle World, - when  it comes to town, [...] - [Read more]

A few months ago, prior to the release of the Apatar Community Preview, Matt Asay asked me via email whether Apatar competes with ESB products, specifically with MuleSource and ServiceMix. After I responded to Matt by email, I thought about posting my response to a blog, and Matt said, “Go ahead.” In fact, two people [...] - [Read more]

UPDATE FROM MARCH 18, 2007: Folks, the latest news… Jack is OK now, and has received a lot of attention from the community willing to help. ………. I just received this post by RSS from Matt Asay’s blog. Jack Aboutboul, who is in charge of Fedora’s marketing, is very sick. He’s looking for help: We are part of [...] - [Read more]

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, an early stage investor in many Web 2.0 emerging leaders (including Wikia, Mashery, and Odeo), posted an excellent article on the emerging business models across many industries: “Here at First Round Capital, we see a lot of business plans for consumer-facing internet services. Most assume a significant portion of their [...] - [Read more]

I’ve attended Mashup Camp 4 this week. It started with a two-day Mashup University, followed by a two-day Mashup Camp. Monday, July 16th Several vendors who sponsored the event presented their mashup development tools. I’ve seen Zude product, announced in April with the help of ZDNet’s David Berlind. Nice UI, Dapper and OpenKapow did demos too. Google Gears [...] - [Read more]

Apatar team is getting ready to head out for two trade shows - OSCON and LinuxWorld.   Although the two conferences may sound similar to you, they are very different. As ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn puts it:  1. OSCON is a theater. LinuxWorld is a show floor.  2. OSCON is intimate conversation. LinuxWorld is hard negotiation.  3. OSCON is [...] - [Read more]

There was an open source panel at Interop called “Open Source Governance: Recognizing & Dealing with the Risks of Free Software “.    Panel consisted from Brian Gentile of JasperSoft, Dominic Sartorio of Open Solutions Alliance, Doug Levin of Black Duck Software and Ross Turk of SourceForge, with Daniel Kohn of The Linux Foundation moderating.  What I did not [...] - [Read more]

Six days ago, I wrote about the key factor influencing disruptive market strategy – New Market. This post summarizes six additional characteristics of a truly disruptive open source business. Most of them derive from one of the best books I can think of in the area of disruptive business models, The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and [...] - [Read more]

In this post, I will describe the top three drivers influencing the adoption of Web 2.0 in Enterprise 2.0. In my next post, I will express my opinion on whether mashups are capable of pushing Web 2.0 into the enterprise arena. Trend #1: Shift to Cloud Computing In “cloud computing,” documents and business information are managed online. [...] - [Read more]

The short answer is, “yes,” but I believe it is conditional to certain changes that have to happen first. Let me focus on what prevents mashups from evolving into the enterprise space right now. According to Gartner, corporate developers spend approximately 65 percent of their effort building bridges between applications. Think about information that’s stored [...] - [Read more]