Latest News from Bill Claybrook

The Open Source Business Conference

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:15:00 EST

Matt Asay, the founder of the Open Source Business Conference, discusses his views on the conference and open source businesses and products. Matt works at Novell as director, Open Source Strategy. Prior to Novell, he worked with Lawrence Lessig at Stanford and subsequently at Lineo.

Making Linux the Overwhelming Choice for Application Developers and Users

Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST

LWM's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with Jim Zemlin, executive director, Free Standards Group, about the Linux Standard Base, the support it has received in the community, and the importance of having an operating platform that is not only open source but open standard as well.

Exclusive Linux.SYS-CON.com Interview: Where Is Sun Going with Linux?

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Linux.SYS-CON.com's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun Microsystem's Software Group about his new job, and what he has in store for Sun's Linux strategy.

Black Duck Software

Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:00:00 EDT

LWM's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with Doug Levin (CEO and president), Palle Pedersen (CTO), and Karen Faulds Copenhaver (executive VP and general counsel) of Black Duck Software in Waltham, MA, about the company and their role in helping Linux and open source software succeed in the enterprise.

Linux Standard Base: Enough Support?

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Ask some end users what Linux Standard Base (LSB) is and most likely they either won't know anything about it, or know a little bit but not enough to qualify as understanding what all the buzz around LSB is about. Ask three ISVs and only one will likely understand the implications of LSB for their business. And only a very, very few will say that they have started the process of making some of their applications LSB-compliant.

The Business Value of Open Source

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

What is open source? It is a way of developing, distributing, and licensing software. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the roots of open source as we know it today were established.

Linux.SYS-CON.com Analysis: Red Hat Sales - How Do They Do It?

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Former Aberdeen Group analyst Bill Claybrook shares his thoughts on how it is that just 50 sales staff at Red Hat were able to generate some 98,000 subscriptions to RH Enterprise Enterprise Linux in the quarter it just reported on.

Microsoft Should Embrace Open Source, Says Linux Analyst

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Former Aberdeen analyst Bill Claybrook, now president of New River Linux & Grid Computing, has a suggestion for Microsoft: 'Begin including some open source software in your software stack in order to take advantage of the economics of open source.' Just about every major software supplier today, argues Claybrook, has some open source software in its software stack - with the exception of Microsoft.

Linux Is Being Kicked Around: Why?

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'The real battle between Linux and Windows has not taken place,' in the opinion of analyst Bill Claybrook. 'We are in a staging position on that one,' he writes. 'In two or three years, when UNIX begins to drop even more market share, Linux and Windows will begin a death struggle to replace UNIX. And Linux will win.'

Sun Open Sources Solaris...Again!

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'Few will care if Solaris/x86 is open sourced,' believes Bill Claybrook. Here's why: 'For the open source community to enthusiastically work on the Solaris source code and collaborate with Sun to improve the software, they must have an interest in Solaris/x86. Today, I think that there will be little interest in enhancing Solaris because open source developers are focused on Linux and many other open source projects that benefit a much wider audience than just Sun and its Solaris/x86 users.'

Linux Viewpoint: Sun's Plan to Confront Linux

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EDT

'I don't get it,' writes Bill Claybrook, who describes himself as one of the few analysts left who believes that Sun will alter its server strategy in the next two or three years. 'Sun is still trying to go against market trends,' he continues, 'and push Solaris on SPARC when many customers want Linux.'

What About the Linux End Users?

Wed, 26 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

If Linux were a proprietary operating system, then companies such as Gillette and Staples who might want to use Linux to run mission-critical applications would make any queries or requests to the vendor. But who looks after them in the Linux world, asks Dr. Bill Claybrook - how do such companies get the features that they want included in Linux?

"Novell's on a Roll," Says Bill Claybrook

Fri, 14 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Former Aberdeen analyst Bill Claybrook reviews the two important Linux-related announcements made this week by Novell.