Posts Tagged ‘open-source’

Producing Open Source Software

Via Soulsoup: “Everything you wanted to know about Producing Open Source Software, from economic-political-business context to copyright issues via successful strategies to implement a good project plan and links to tons of free resources, you can get it all here”: Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel: Producing Open Source Software is a book about […]

Tim O’Reilly: 3D-Drucker werden unser Leben verändern

Der zweite Teil des Interviews mit Tim O’Reilly nun bei SpOn: 3D-Drucker werden unser Leben verändern … Ja, Neil Gershenfeld war hier auch schon einmal Thema. Aber auch sonst ist der zweite Teil lesenswert, es geht eben nicht nur um Web 2.0.

Interview mit Tim O’Reilly

Bei SpOn ein Interview mit Tim O´ Reilly über Web 2.0, Open Source Strategien, Anreizsysteme und Geschäftsmodelle: Linux ist ein Betriebssystem, das von seinen Nutzern aufgebaut wurde und trotzdem verdienen Leute Geld damit. Es muss nur einen angemessenen Austausch geben – dabei muss es nicht unbedingt um Geld gehen. Open-Source-Software-Communities erzeugen handfeste Werte – nicht […]

What Business Can Learn from Open Source

Just a little sunday evening pointer (to myself as well) … Paul Graham on the implications of open source and what businesses can learn from this approch … hitting some common organizational pathologies by the way. But the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about […]

Sun plans to make all its software free …

… to build »Communities« around their technologies … had some of this already. notice this […] Open source is having a [highly] productive role in driving innovation, driving down cost” and this By commoditizing technology, markets are built up, […] commodity markets are the best markets in the world […] markets such as financial services […]

Is the enterprise software business dying?

Well, software commoditization is rolling. Andy Singleton has written a nice commentary in the IT Managers Journal … One aspect is open source alternatives, another point is that many of these pieces of software don’t deliver on what they promise … the conclusion is that the traditional enterprise software business is dying. That doesn’t mean […]

Sun Opens Source Code to Java Tech

Sun is going open source again … In an effort to jumpstart Java, Sun Microsystems is open sourcing several of its Java Enterprise technologies. Sun will release the source code to Java Application Server Edition 9.0 and Java Enterprise Server Bus (Java ESB). notice this quote: “By open sourcing these Java technologies and the Solaris […]