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Posted by Kas Thomas AUG 06, 2010

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Open Source continues to make gains

According to a survey released yesterday by Accenture (NYSE:ACN), 69 percent of organizations anticipate increased investment in open source in 2010, with 38 percent expecting to migrate mission-critical software to open source in the next twelve months.
 
Accenture's survey of 300 large organizations (in both private and public sectors) found that half of respondents say they are fully committed to open source in their business. Another 28 percent say they are experimenting with open source and keeping an open mind to using it. Of organizations already using open source software, 88 percent say they will increase their investment in such software in 2010 compared to 2009.
 
Interestingly, cost saving is no longer the primary driver behind open source adoption. According to the survey:


• 76 percent of respondents in the UK and US cited quality as the key benefit of open source
• 71 percent cited improved reliability
• 70 percent cited better security/bug fixing
  

"What we are seeing is the coming of age of open source," said Accenture chief technology architect Paul Daugherty. "Through both our research and our work with clients, we are seeing an increase in demand for open source based on quality, reliability, and speed, not just cost savings. This is a significant change from just two years ago when uptake was driven mainly by cost savings. We can expect to see this trend develop as open source continues to evolve and address even more business critical functions."



Posted by Michael Marth JUN 21, 2010

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[ANN] HTML5 videos

Day's collection of screencasts is now available as HTML5 video, i.e. using the <video> tag instead of a Flash player (and Flash only as a fallback). The videos have been converted to mp4 and ogg. The semantics of the <video> tag allow for different renditions to be offered to the client which can then choose an appropriate one.

Check out the screencast Web Application Development with CRX or the CQ5 introduction. You will need a non-IE browser, like:


• Mozilla Firefox 3.6+ (ogg in HTML5 inline)
• Apple iPhone 3+ (mp4 low-res in HTML5 fullscreen)
• Apple iPad (mp4 in HTML5 inline & fullscreen)
• Apple Safari 4+ (mp4 in HTML5 inline & fullscreen)
• Google Chrome 5+ (mp4 in HTML5 inline)
• Google Android 2.1+ (mp4 low-res in device player)
• Opera 10.5+ (ogg in HTML5 inline)

(Microsoft IE 6+ uses the Flash fallback)

Thanks to Cédric Hüsler and Gabriel Walt (see them below testing on their pet devices) for making this possible ;-)




Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz MAR 25, 2010

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Google Summer of Code 2010 is on!

The 2010 edition of the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC) is getting started, now's the time for students to apply! See the FAQ for the timeline.


The ASF is participating again, and the newly created Community Development group should help better coordinate things.


See http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html if you're interested in helping an ASF project as part of GSoC.

I have suggested two projects related to Apache Sling, there's a large list of projects to choose from at the ASF, and students are also welcome to suggest projects.

As usual, my recommendation to students is to get familiar with the ASF projects that you're interested in rather sooner than later.

My previous experiences with mentoring GSoC students have shown that being able to communicate effectively with our project's groups is a key success factor, so students who are already in touch with our communities get a better chance of being selected. That's as far as I'm concerned of course - other projects or organizations might have different criteria.


Could we have some students from Switzerland this time? I tried to motivate some when I was teaching at comem.ch before joining Day, but no one stepped in for GSoC. Where are those swiss genius student programmers?


Posted by Michael Marth FEB 23, 2010

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[LOTD] Open source and biz models: Day and MySQL

Roberto Galoppini, blogger with a focus on open source topics, has written a post comparing MySQL's value proposition and licensing terms with Day's. Along more well-known considerations about GPL and its business implications Roberto discusses his observation that Day contributes to open-source projects, not products:

Why should we talk about Day Software? Actually they don’t pretend to be an open source vendor, but they do contribute a lot, both in terms of code and open standards definition and support. Simon Phipps’s score card would probably penalize them, but the problem here is that the score card is - quite wrongly in my view - about products instead of projects. Checking out Day’s contributions to open source projects on Ohloh gives a clear picture of why talking of Day makes sense in this context.

Some related articles:

• Roberto had previously interviewed David on the topic.
• Day and Open Source
• How Day Software stumbled upon an open source business strategy

Posted by Michael Marth NOV 09, 2009

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[LOTD] How Day Software stumbled upon an open source business strategy

Day's CMO Kevin Cochrane has been interviewed by Matthew Aslet of the 451 group about Day's open source strategy. I particularly liked:

While many other vendors have chosen to retain control over their open source projects for commercial reasons, Day opted to relinquish control with the aim of ubiquity.

Full interview here.