We're joined on February 26, 2009 for Episode 6 by Neil Erickson, Senior IT Director at a Fortune 500 company. Neil brings some much needed reality to our discussion, reminding us that enterprises are trying to solve problems, not obsess about open versus closed. Neil also calls us the Gwar of open source, bringing back lost memories of my youth.
Recording with Skype remains a pleasure/pain that aches for a better solution. But since Matt is in Utah and I am in my secret lair, we have no choice. And no, I can't explain why sometimes the podcast works in iTunes and sometimes it doesn't. That's just one of many reasons we're moving it to CNet.
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The topics of discussion:
- Open Core licensing--how do enterprises feel about mixed-source/hybrid models?
- Contributions are tough to pull off in many cases even if the enterprises want to give code back.
- Who is the likely vendor to get contributions--can Red Hat make something big happen?
- If not open source or SaaS, how do you do a software company?
- Does proprietary still work given the challenges of the economics?
- Should Matt get his faucet fixed by a plumber or just buy a washer?
- Will Microsoft customers ensure that they don't destroy open source?
- What about Yammer and private Twitter? Does it make any sense for the enterprise?
- Matt forgets about OSBC, the conference that he started.
Apologies for the heavy breathing. It's Matt, he's notorious for it--Ashlee Vance would never let that behavior fly. And thanks to Neil for shining some true enterprise light on our discussion. We've got a bunch of guests in queue from our slack time. More soon...
Previous episodes are still available at opensources.com
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Matt Asay and I recorded Episode 5 of our Open Sources podcast series today. In this episode we discuss the fact that many open source companies are about to get funded and skew the venture stats once again.
We also discuss the EC2 ecosystem and the risks associated with building your company on top of something you don't own.
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Matt Asay and I finally broke down and got a guest on our Open Sources podcast series. It wasn't that we didn't want to before, just that we were too stupid to figure out how to make Skype work properly.
In this episode we are joined by Robin Yellow, a British man-of-mystery (misery?) not unlike Austin Powers.
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You can get the mp3 directly, or the OGG if you are feeling frisky.
Highlights:
* We discuss the furor of stupidity related to Macworld
* Matt refuses to answer questions with a simple yes/no
* Robin assures us that open source will thrive in the enterprise of the future
* We predict an iPhone killer in 2009
This podcast stuff is great for my incredibly painful carpal tunnel flare-up this week.
It's hard to believe that doing this stupid podcast could be so incredibly annoying. Between Skype crapping out, Zack Urlocker's lack of experience using a computer and the fact that I had to go from MP3 to WAV to MP3 again the magic just never stopped.
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Meanwhile, please to enjoy the latest episode (#3) of Open Sources the ongoing podcast series in which Matt Asay and I attempt to shed light on various topics.
* We mock Zack Urlocker for not being able to use Skype
* We lament commenters and open source's desire to kill itself
* Blog traffic is driven by Google, Apple and Microsoft
* We discuss whether or not Sun can sink open source if they fail
* Matt further realizes that open source companies need more value beyond just a license
* Dave demands that James Governor stop filling up everyone's Twitter box
You can follow Dave and Matt on Twitter if you are really bored.
Matt Asay and I recorded Episode 2 of our Open Sources podcast today. We're getting much better at editing ourselves to make these things listenable.
For those who are wondering, the process has been fairly painless. I basically capture our Skype call with AudioHijack and drag the pieces into Garage Band for editing.
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This episode clocks in at 20 minutes, just the right amount of time for you to listen to it while you are on the treadmill or elliptical machine.
I haven't been able to kick this back problem (2 weeks with a slipped disc) but we did manage to record episode 15 of the Open Season podcast series.
This time we talk about:
- The Cloud and why we need Java there
- The inevitable fall-out from Microsoft's Yahoo tomfoolery
- Google AppEngine
- and so much more!
If anyone out there has a better way to record these things we're open to suggestion. Ashlee's latest Skype move (port forwarding and all that) is pretty much crap.
Just when you thought that content couldn't get any more superfluous we are back with a new episode of Open Season, where me, Matt Asay and Ashlee Vance talk smack about pretty much everything while delivering the occasional insight.
I had a rough morning the day we recorded so please forgive my rage. Ashlee was sick and Matt wanted to watch Soccer. I miss my blog-hater already.
After a month hiatus in which I went to Japan, we all had Thanksgiving and Matt Asay watched nearly 100 soccer games, Ashlee Vance got us back online for Open Season. This time we were joined by Lonn Johnston of PageOne PR fame (forgive us) and we talked *a lot* of smack about Novell and Facebook.
Please to enjoy.
Open Season Episode Seven
Novell, Red Hat and Gartner war with Facebook for PR flop award
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