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Can Apache Maven Make It by Going Commercial?
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| What does it take to build a company on the back of a non-commercial, open
| source project?
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| The figures behind Apache Maven are betting that for the widely deployed,
| open source Java project management tool, the answer is relying on open
| source's ability to slip in the enterprise back door, gain fans organically
| and only then upsell users on commercial-grade improvements.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3784611/Can+Apache+Maven+Make+It+by+Going+Commercial.htm
Surprise: CTOs Want To Pay For Open Source
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| The single thing that struck me the most was the note that CTOs have a
| perception -- valid or not, it scarcely matters -- that it's difficult and
| potentially legally thorny for them to contribute code back. They'd rather
| just contribute money, whether in the form of licensing proprietary bits or
| just paying for expanded features ("Hey, can you write an Outlook connector
| for this?"), perhaps as an adjunct to their existing support contracts.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/surprise_ctos_w.html
Recent:
What Comes After “Embrace, Extend”?
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| This is how it will go. Purely in order to “improve” the performance of
| Apache and Hadoop on the Windows platform, Microsoft will helpfully offer
| some really cool hacks....which will of course only work on the Windows
| platform.
|
| This will effectively fork the Apache/Hadoop/whatever code – all for the good
| of their communities. Of course, there may be some “patented” technologies in
| there, but Microsoft will promise never, ever to sue anyone using
| this “optimised” open source – cross its heart and hope to die. Look for
| Microsoft to get involved with other leading open source projects in the same
| way.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1407
Microsoft and Apache
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| It all sounds good. But Apache is no threat to Microsoft, their projects run
| on Microsoft systems and their license doesn't prevent "embrace and enhance".
| Linux, GNU, OpenOffice, those are more of a threat. This is, obviously, a
| strategic move by Microsoft. I'm trying to convince myself that we
| didn't "get owned".
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/25/46596
Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?
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| But Microsoft can still influence how things go from here on. If they have to
| live with open source, the Apache project is Microsoft's preferred direction.
| Apache doesn't use the dreaded GPL and its enforced sharing of source-code.
| Instead, the Apache license is practically a no-strings gift, with a weak
| provision against patent lawsuits as its most relevant term. Microsoft can
| take Apache software and embrace and enhance, providing their own versions of
| the project's software with engineered incompatibility and no available
| source, just as they forced incompatibility into the Web by installing IE
| with every Windows upgrade.
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| IE is derived from Mosaic, the original Web browser, open source with a
| license similar to Apache's. So, this isn't a new strategy. The plan, then,
| could be to have Microsoft servers vie for dominance with their own –
| Microsoft specialized – versions of Apache applications. Or it could be that
| Microsoft sees itself replacing Linux in the market as a hosting platform for
| open source....
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| So, this $100,000 contribution and the partial patent grant aren't about
| interoperability. It's for publicity, and to convince government regulators,
| not the most technical people in the world, that Microsoft has joined open
| source and is now a well-behaved company, no anti-trust issues at all. The
| bad part for open source is that Microsoft is increasingly in a position to
| speak to European legislators as an insider in the open source community
| while requesting increases in software patenting that would block open
| source.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3762786/Bruce+Perens
August 2008 Web Server Survey
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| In the August 2008 survey we received responses from 176,748,506 sites. This
| month's overall growth of 1.3 million sites reflects Apache's growth of 1.2
| million and Google's gain of half a million sites, but a loss of 760 thousand
| sites using Microsoft IIS.
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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/08/29/august_2008_web_server_survey.html
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