Author: Brian Dooley Big Data continues to impact vendors and IT users alike as it creates a rising tide of change across the firm, including analytics capabilities, competitive requirements, IT infrastructure, processes, and personnel. Big Data is no lo ...

Author: Mike West In this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we review seven leading trends impacting the value that can be realized through the Cloud Services layer.In Part 2, we discuss the next three of these Cloud Services trends: 5. ISVs migrating to th ...

Author: Mike West, Bill McNee In this 2-part Strategic Perspective, we review seven leading trends impacting the value that can be realized through the Cloud Services layer.In Part 1, we discuss the first four of these Cloud Services trends: Three key ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On Tuesday March 22, 2011, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced its intent to standardize and promote a series of data networking protocols, tools, interfaces, and controls known as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) that c ...

Author: Bruce Guptill In our annual look back and ahead in open source software; this Strategic Perspective examines where things went in 2010 and where they can be expected to go through 2012, based on our Open Source Scenario. Please view the full art ...

Author: Bruce Guptill and Brian Dooley Both open source software and SaaS separately are significant market disruptors. In reality, there are today only a few areas where they intersect, and the effect of that intersection is substantial but limited. Thi ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Members of the software community behind OpenOffice.org have decided to create a new organization that will be independent from Oracle and speed up improvements to the code in the open source alternative to Microsoft Office. The new ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On Tuesday April 27, 2010, Salesforce.com and VMware jointly announced VMforce, a new Cloud-based platform for Java-based enterprise application development. As announced, VMforce will use Salesforce’s Force.com physical infrastruc ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Developers, partners, and users of SUSE Linux as distributed by Novell have seen the company go through a stunning range of disruptive events within the past several weeks. The future of Novell, and therefore of the SUSE Linux distr ...

Author: Bruce Guptill In 2007, Saugatuck made a series of statements and issued several Strategic Planning Positions (SPPs) regarding growth, change, and the future of open source software. In December of 2008, we reviewed our positions and found most of ...

Author: Bruce Guptill 2009 was a year when the open source revolution ran head-on into maturity, and open source software realized its key role as a commercially-leverageable asset for multi-billion-dollar software firms. In this Strategic Perspective, S ...

Author: Bruce Guptill A series of industry events and forum discussions recently has raised a critical question that goes to the heart of any open source business model; namely, is it possible to sell open source software and therefore to create a busine ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is approaching completion.  Significant questions and issues remain, however, regarding the role of Sun’s open source software portfolio in the new company. This Strategic Perspective examines key challen ...

Author: Bruce Guptill Saugatuck has reported on the significant change and growth in the adoption of open source software by users and by software vendors (please see Strategic Research Report SSR-540, “Power, Speed and Assimilation: Open Source Changes ...

Author: Bruce Guptill In preparation for our late 2008 research study of open source software, Saugatuck analysts interviewed 50 open source vendors regarding three key areas: Market Changes Business Challenges SaaS and Cloud Computing In this St ...

Author: Bruce Guptill VMware made headlines this week by announcing its planned acquisition of open source-based Java development firm SpringSource. SpringSource, formerly Interface21, is best known as the commercial development firm leading the Spring p ...

Author: Bruce Guptill With Moblin and Wind River, Intel is effectively positioning itself for life outside of and beyond Microsoft Windows. Intel will have, under its own control, viable and well-established alternatives for Windows in practically every ...

Author: Bruce Guptill On May 19, 2009, Intel Corp. announced the new beta version 2.0 of the open-source, Linux-based Moblin operating system for netbooks and other mobile computing devices. Though largely overlooked by the media, Saugatuck sees this as ...

Author: Bruce Guptill SOA been reported “dead” in recent media, analyst and blog reports. Confirming this, Saugatuck’s recent reader poll saw SOA drop to second-tier status last month after years in the top spot. It is Saugatuck’s view that SOA has alre ...

Author: Bill McNee In late April, 2009, Saugatuck reached out to registered members who regularly read our research – including those who solely receive our complimentary Research Alerts, as well as those who subscriber to our premium research service (C ...