Information Technology Tutorials

[2009-12-15] Costs Between Proprietary And Open Source Products Narrows In The Cloud
After my previous post "Cloud to boost proprietary software use?", Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of "WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly". JBoss' Rich Sharples commented that I was comparing apples and oranges. That was not my intention.

[2009-12-01] Discovering The Main Goals Of Open Source Communities And Vendors
The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his "software freedom scorecard", a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.