I could not continue to simply sit by and watch the ongoing delay by the EU with regards to the Oracle/Sun Microsystems deal. I’ve sent the following letter to Neelie Kroes, commissioner for competition, EU, and wanted to share it here as well.  Your comments are welcome.
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Attention: Neelie Kroes
Commissioner for Competition
European Union
I’m writing to urge [...]

Substantial advancements are underway proving that open source software, at every level of the stack, is becoming mainstream in the U.S. Federal Government. Speaking at this week’s GOSCON Conference in Washington, the acting DoD CIO, David Wennergren, spoke about the new departmental understanding that open source software which manifests in commercial form is legitimate and [...]

Drupal for Content Management
Great news announced this week from our colleagues at Acquia, the commercial open source backers of the Drupal web content management tool. The White House’s web site, www.whitehouse.gov, has relaunched using Drupal. On his blog, Dries Buytaert, CTO of Acquia and original creator of Drupal, describes this news.

I have passionately asserted [...]

Note: This blog post also appears as a guest post on the blog at my alma mater, Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. But I also wanted to share it with JasperForge readers.
It occurred to me recently that the open source movement is really nothing less than a renaissance.  Perhaps that [...]

I don’t often discuss Jaspersoft’s specific products in this blog, preferring to offer ideas and insights on the trends that are shaping the world of business intelligence. Today, though, I want to highlight the fact that we’ve launched a substantial new version of our flagship reporting tool that raises the bar in the [...]

Sharing is good
I saved the topic of Collaboration, key to next-generation web application design, for my fourth and final post in this series for good reason. Social networking, wikis, instant messaging, and micro-blogging are now central to so much of what we do as both consumers and businesspeople that their effects on enterprise applications [...]

This time, it’s personal
One of the sure hallmarks of successful web-based applications is providing the user with ability to customize the application experience to suit his or her specific interests and needs.  Such customization not only tailors the system to the unique use-case of the user, but, done properly, it actually extends the capabilities of [...]

[This post is a brief detour in the middle of my four-part series on Next-Generation web application design and is timed for today’s Open Source for America announcement. I will resume the series with my next post.]

Building a more efficient government is everyone’s job

Today it was announced that a broad and diverse coalition of [...]

Leveraging the power of the latest web technologies to “wow” the user
If you’re old enough to have used an IBM 3270 “green screen” or even MS-DOS at some point in your career, you know the exact opposite of elegant presentation.   While enterprise software evolved from inconsistency and poor design through to client/server architectures and ultimately [...]

If you think Google created Android because it wants to compete in the mobile phone market, think again.
Delivering rich, interactive content to you, consistently, whether you’re using a desktop computer or wireless mobile phone is Google’s agenda. With great influence on the mobile device’s operating environment (a la Android), Google can more specifically control [...]