by Mark Driver | January 31, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve just published a new research note on a “CIO’s Perspective On Open Source”. Gartner clients can get the full report here. I’ve included the highlights below but as usual the real ‘meat’ of the analysis is in the full report…. A CIO’s Perceptive On Open Source An open-source governance program is the key to [...]
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by Mark Driver | January 28, 2011 | Comments Off
I’ve just published a new research report on ‘Business Unit Application Development’ (BUAD) best practices. Clients can access the full report here but below is short summary of the content as well. Of course, the ‘meat’ of the analysis is in the research note (about 15 pages). Characteristics and Best Practices of Business Unit Application [...]
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by Mark Driver | January 19, 2011 | 4 Comments
On January 11thMike Milinkovich at Eclipse announced the Orion platform. Here are some of my early thoughts. According to the folks at Eclipse, Orion IS intended to be “the very beginning of an open tool integration platform using the idioms and metaphors of the web”. There is surprising amount of meat in that short statement. [...]
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by Mark Driver | August 13, 2010 | 5 Comments
On Thursday Oracle sued Google over seven counts of software patent infringement and one count of copyright infringement. But wait! Isn’t java open source now? And software patents are kryptonite to open source. So what’s going on here? Here’s my take so far…. Then Sun and now Oracle makes a lot of money licensing Java [...]
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by Mark Driver | December 8, 2009 | 12 Comments
We’ve just published our 2010 predictions research note for open source. Clients can find it here and can view last year’s here as well. This research note is a list of some heavy hitting trends that will have a significant impact over the next 12 to 36 months. It is certainly not the total extent [...]
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by Mark Driver | December 3, 2009 | 24 Comments
I just published a research note on PHP. Clients can find it here. The research note goes into *much* more detail but the overview is below. Keep in mind that this content is targetted at mainstream IT organizations. —————————————————- PHP has been a cornerstone technology on the Web for more than a decade. While its [...]
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by Mark Driver | October 6, 2009 | 16 Comments
ColdFusion has been around practically as long as the web itself . Today it retains a loyal but relatively small developer base (Adobe counts it at around 750K developers compared to my own estimates of about 48 trillion for .NET). Overall CF has lost market share percentage to competing technologies for years (ASP, Java, PHP, etc.) [...]
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by Mark Driver | October 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
My colleague Ray Valdes has posted a nice blog entry regarding the announcement on Monday at Adobe’s Max Conference that Flash applications will be deployable to Apple’s iphone. Here’s my take… A major theme of this year’s conference was the upcoming 10.1 release of the Flash player targeted specifically at a wide range of smart [...]
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by Mark Driver | June 16, 2009 | Comments Off
I just published a research note that outlines some key trends and strategies to maximize OSS investments in the ‘down’ economy. You can find it here. Let me know what you think. How is your IT org leveraging OSS in today’s IT environment?
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by Mark Driver | February 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Last updated on 5/13/09 Disclaimer: This is pretty much for Gartner clients since non-clients cant actually get to the content. However it should give you a good idea of the open source related material we cover at Gartner nonetheless. I’ll update this blog entry from time to time so this one is a good bookmark [...]
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