Stephen Walli is Vice President of Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros, where he's responsible for developing and managing Optaros' relationships with the open source community. Previously Stephen was an advocate for open source at Microsoft, where he was focused on the technical implementation of open source-related community projects, creating a business model at Microsoft to engage in the open source community. Stephen was the Vice-president, R&D and a founder at Softway Systems, Inc, the developer of the Interix environment to re-host UNIX applications on NT. Stephen was also an independent consultant for X/Open, Sun, UNISYS, and the Canadian government. He was once a development manager at Mortice Kern Systems, and a systems analyst at EDS. A long time participant and officer at the IEEE and ISO POSIX standards groups, representing both USENIX and EUUG, he blogs on open source, standards, and the business of software at http://stephesblog.blogs.com/
Sun Microsystems recently announced its intentions of finally publishing Java
under an Open Source license. But what does that actually mean? We'll take a
quick look at what it means to be "Open Source," how the Java language
specification compares to other more formal language standards, and the
importance of the brand and certification programs. We'll then look at what
benefits Sun may get from distributing Java as Open Source and at some of the
problems that will have to be addressed.
Open Source Software
The Open Source Initiative defines Open Source software and a license must
meet 10 criteria to be considered an "Open Source software" license.
Essentially, it's a way of thinking about licensing software. It boils down
to some very simple ideas about access to sourc... (more)
Sun Microsystems recently announced its intentions of finally publishing Java
under an Open Source license. But what does that actually mean? We'll take a
quick look at what it means to be "Open Source," how the Java language
specification compares to other more formal language standards, and the
importance of the brand and certification programs. We'll then look at what
benefits Sun may... (more)
Yesterday morning saw reports in the Financial Times that "Oracle considers
venturing into Linux". This was picked up by CNet (via Reuters) which set up
the discussion about Oracle's desire to deliver a entire stack of technology
to customers, and then drew attention to the quote that Oracle has even
"considered buying Novell." And thus are rumor mills fed. Let's actually look
at the dis... (more)
"If Red Hat can introduce JBoss technology to a lot of its customers, this
could be great for business growth, assuming the packaging works. But the
reverse may not be true," muses Stephen Walli (pictured), whom many people
still associate most strongly with Microsoft's open source applications
FlexWiki and WiX.
Here's his analysis in full:
At the very high level, this looks good. Two "op... (more)
Stephen Walli is Vice President of Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros, where he's responsible for developing and managing Optaros' relationships with the open source community. Previously Stephen was an advocate for open source at Microsoft, where he was focused on the technical implementation of open source-related community projects, creating a business model at Microsoft to engage in the open source community. Stephen was the Vice-president, R&D and a founder at Softway Systems, Inc, the developer of the Interix environment to re-host UNIX applications on NT. Stephen was also an independent consultant for X/Open, Sun, UNISYS, and the Canadian government. He was once a development manager at Mortice Kern Systems, and a systems analyst at EDS. A long time participant and officer at the IEEE and ISO POSIX standards groups, representing both USENIX and EUUG, he blogs on open source, standards, and the business of software at http://stephesblog.blogs.com/
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