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Open Source Software (OSS) for data integration has been slow to get established but a rise in the number of vendors and increasing venture capital investment in the sector shows that OSS data integration is becoming a serious alternative to commercial software.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Open Source Software (OSS) is see by Butler Group as one of a number of viable software business and licensing models. As such, we cover OSS in most of our research streams, rather than researching it as a standalone topic.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/06/2009 - Maxine Holt
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The acquisition of Sun Microsystems (subject to regulatory approval) could cause some concerns in the Open Source (OS) database market due to part of that acquisition being MySQL (the apparent ‘darling’ of the OS database world). Although MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems some time ago, this in itself did not raise too many concerns as Sun was seen as a strong supporter of OS and it didn’t have a collection of databases. Oracle, on the other hand, has yet to determine (or at least communicate) which…
OpinionWire Articles - published 28/05/2009 - Mike Thompson
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Sun Microsystems (1982-2009) perhaps never scaled the heights that its technology and innovations demanded. Despite being the driving force behind Java, and having its fifth employee (John Gage) credited with the phrase “the network is the computer” (which was a scarily accurate predictive statement when one looks at it from an historical perspective), for some reason the company never managed to be perceived as one of the ‘big boys’. This could hardly be put down to the shy and retiring nature of its lo…
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/04/2009 - Mike Thompson
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Although Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes most sense in the context of supporting a strategic business initiative, most organisations will not want to commit to such a radical change without having successfully delivered a proof-of-concept project. Organisations considering starting up now will face the additional challenge of justifying external expenditure for this type of project. In the case of SOA, the major components of external expenditure will generally be software acquisition and consu…
OpinionWire Articles - published 29/01/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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