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For nearly twenty years, the software community has embraced the concept of open source development, which stresses collaboration between coders and uses the Internet to broaden its reach to include input from great minds spread across the world. California-based database software company db4objects applies these same concepts to the ...

The success of its open source, embedded database will depend on high volume deployments. September 15, 2007, by John Foley  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806547

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, ...

It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off.  But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also enables, yes, encourages each one of us to assess whether there's a point in hanging out in ...

It always takes a while to realize that you are freed, once chains have been taken off.  But now individuals at db4objects incl. myself start to realize that the 'flat world' model which enables our distributed and extremely global business model also enables, yes, encourages each one of us to assess whether there's a point in hanging out in ...

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, ...