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What the Open Source Barometer tells us

By on November 12, 2008 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Alfresco, a company that publishes a open source ECM, does also feature a Open Source Barometer over at http://www.opensourcebarometer.org. According to their own saying; “The Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey is the largest open source enterprise infrastructure/stack survey. The third global survey covers data provided by over 25,000 of Alfresco’s 74,000 community members during the period of April to September 2008. “.

Since the Barometer shows us a door into the Enterprise open source usage what can we learn from it?

For Operating System we see that RedHat and Ubuntu are the clear leaders for Linux deployment. Look at how much Ubuntu has caught up. Ubuntu is not as long in the business as RedHat and I hear a lot of people taking on the Ubuntu Server. Looks like RedHat has to be on the look out. A obvious thing is that most will develop and test on Windows, but will deploy on Linux.

We see that Tomcat is still the most used Application Server, as it is our choice of server with Razuna, our very own open source Digital Asset Management, with over 67% compared to JBoss with 17%. The choice of database is with most the famous MySQL, followed by Oracle.

Thought that with the recent 10 million download for OpenOffice we see that MS Office is still the most used business application and despite the growing numbers of XEN marketing VMware is still the choice for most businesses to deploy Virtualization on.

One thing that really stood out for me is that Open Source is really at the “Long Tail”, that most businesses will go with a mixed stack (Open Source and proprietary software) and that Microsoft will have a impact on the Enterprise world and the Open Source community with their aggressive partnership. One thing I can tell from my own experience at a recent BizSpark introduction event is that MS will make inroads with a lot of businesses and startups.

A big thing for RIA and Adobe Flex is that 24% of the 25000 questioned community members take to Flex, that is second after 52% on Ajax and way ahead of the 8% of MS Silverlight.

Open Source Barometer III (Nov08)

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More Microsoft ads that make sense

By on September 21, 2008 in Uncategorized

Here are other variants of the “I’m a PC” ads from Microsoft. I really like the first one, especially the end with the boxer :-) Wow, that is real aggressive. Cool catch.

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SixSigns and our products getting social

By on September 18, 2008 in Razuna

Due to popular request we have decided to get on the social network train with our company and products.

First of all we have added the social bookmark ability for this blog. Thus on the bottom of each blog post you will see different icons to bookmark blog posts. The plug-in we use has many social bookmarks available, but for sanity reason we have only enabled a couple. If you need one that is not listed, let us know so we can enable it.

Then there is also Twitter. Some have already found us, but now it is official. We are on Twitter under the account “sixsigns” and are twittering. Please be informed that this is not always strictly business talk and some personal bits can fall in between :-)

Last but not least, we also started a Razuna Facebook page. Now, if you life and breath in Facebook you can also add your favorite open source digital asset management on Facebook. We are not promising to release a Facebook application……….

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Gates and Seinfeld are funny, strange and don’t make sense

By on September 12, 2008 in Uncategorized

The second ad that Microsoft published is actually funny (kind of Bee-Movie for MS) but one can now really say about this is that it does not make any sense at all. I am sure that some die-hard Windows fans will see Windows Vista everywhere in these 4 minutes…

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