by Mark Driver | February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just published a short “finding” research note on leveraging open source to save money. Clients can find it here. It’s a very short piece meant to serve as a quick place holder while I work on a much more in-depth note. I hope to have that one ready by end of February. Here is a quick excerpt with [...]
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by Mark Driver | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/dec/11/cisco-lawsuit/ The Software Freedom Law Center is the main watch dog for the GPL family of licenses. Its rare that we see oss license litigation make it to court. In most cases these issus are settled quietly behind closed doors. But ironically the problem is that we dont have much modern case law on the [...]
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by Mark Driver | January 4, 2009 | Comments Off
A good list of some major oss events last year… http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090102-alook-back-at-the-open-source-victories-of-2008.html
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by Mark Driver | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
I just published a new research note on dynamic (scripting) languages. Gartner clients can find the full note here but the following is a quick highlight of the content…. Dynamic programming languages, such as PHP, Python and Ruby, are making their way into mainstream IT efforts. Although these tools provide new opportunities for IT organizations [...]
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by Mark Driver | December 8, 2008 | Comments Off
We’ve just published a research note that has some key predictions for open source over the next several years. It’s only available to Gartner clients but here are some highlights… Key Findings By 2012, at least 50% of direct commercial revenue attributed to open-source products or services will come from projects under a single vendor’s patronage. [...]
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by Mark Driver | December 5, 2008 | Comments Off
I’ll be in sunny Las Vegas from Dec 8th to the 10th at Gartner’s AADI conference. The high here at home was 20 today so I am LOOKING forward to the Nevada desert right about now. I’ll be doing two presentations on AD and one on OSS plus an OSS user roundtable (link above). If [...]
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by Mark Driver | November 21, 2008 | 4 Comments
Its been two years since Novell and Microsoft cuddled up with one another. The agreement covers a range of technical initiatives such as increased interop between Windows and SUSE Linux for virtualization, server manageability, and even document compatibility. On this anniversary they’ve announced additional server management technologies and an official beta release of Mono’s Moonlight [...]
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by Mark Driver | November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
I cover the broader subject of the open source software model at Gartner. Toward this end, I get inquiries related to things like general adoption challenges, business models, and risk factors. One area of concern that comes up regularly in client conversations is the relationship of open source and intellectual property and licensing. This becomes [...]
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by Mark Driver | October 10, 2008 | 13 Comments
The Merb framework for Ruby has reached the big 1.0 with an impressive list of features. If you’ve never heard of it, consider Merb a second generation Ruby framework that takes many of the (sometime painful) lessons learned in Rails and applies them to a blank canvas. I’ve predicted in Gartner research that the Ruby [...]
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by Mark Driver | October 9, 2008 | 50 Comments
I’ve often referred to Smalltalk as the ‘Latin’ of modern OO languages. Most owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now. Here a simply equation. In terms of mental fortitude… 1 Smalltalk developer = 2.5 C++ developers 1 C++ [...]
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