Building the world’s most vibrant BI community is at the core of our every thought at Jaspersoft.  I’ve written before about how seriously we take this responsibility and how our investments (time and money) are lined up to support it, from our new JasperForge to our measurement and metric system called the Community Vibrancy Index [...]

Today’s announcement that Jaspersoft has taken to full production its newest JasperForge community  web site is much more important to open source than the amount of likely fanfare it will generate.
When we originally envisioned a new Forge platform that would enable the types of collaboration and networking required for the most advanced community development, this [...]

With a release later this year (2009), Jaspersoft is planning to change the licenses on the open source projects as follows:

JasperReports from LGPL version 2 to LGPL version 3
iReport from GPL version 2 to GPL version 3
JasperServer and JasperAnalysis from GPL version 2 to Affero GPL version 3

The Jaspersoft projects use components with a variety [...]

Today’s announcement that SpringSource is acquiring Hyperic is a solid step forward for open source software.  Not only will the combination of these company’s products and technologies yield greater advantages for a larger and needing market of developers and IT professionals, but the combined company size will portend additional leadership at a key time in [...]

You may be surprised to know that SAP is providing compelling proof that open source software is the better model, particularly in this troubled economy.  In case you haven’t followed the recent reporting and intrigue from the world of SAP, I’ll provide a summary.
Like all aged, proprietary software mega-vendors, SAP’s software license growth has slowed [...]