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You probably noticed a news in the object database market: On December 1, 2008 ''Versant acquired the assets of the database software business of privately-held Servo Software, Inc. (formerly db4objects, Inc.)''. What`s the meaning of this acquisition? I asked a few questions to Robert Greene who is responsible for defining Versant's overall ...

Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

Buddy Dirk Riehle from SAP research has published an interesting paper on The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives. I agree with his approach that only an analysis of each stakeholder's specific perspective can identify the different incentives that drive the economics of open source.  The basic underlying ...

A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

A short note in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained on a CFO's comment, that XP was similar to the Toyota Production System (TPS) sparked my interest to read more about the TPS and reconcile it with some firsthand experience working as a supplier to Toyota.  I have now finished Jeffrey Liker's ''The Toyota Way'' and can see very well, ...

The open source year 2006 is coming to an end.  While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review:Open source companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...

The open source year 2006 is coming to an end.  While we often see things moving rather slowly from a day to day perspective, it is quite amazing how massively open source is changing the software industry by looking at the year in review:Open source companies have made significant commercial progress and doubled their business, incl. MySQL, ...

I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore.  Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much a part of the software culture as it is in the Western world or in China. It's mostly ...

I had the honor to be invited as a speaker to FOSS.IN, India's premier open source conference, which takes place this weekend in Bangalore.  Atul Chitnis and his team brought together this exiting event in a country where open source is still not as much a part of the software culture as it is in the Western world or in China. It's mostly ...

Back to Stanford GSB today to attend a class on MySQL, taught by Robert Burgelman, including the (B) case sequel of the already published case I co-authored in 2004.  Marten was a class guest, and, as usual, it was big fun. One thought that I took away was the fact that $50M MySQL has a larger marketing budget than $15B Oracle.  ...