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Latest Articles from Bill Claybrook
By Bill Claybrook  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. Dec. 9, 2005 04:15 PM EST Reads: 10,628 Replies: 1 | By Bill Claybrook 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 stan... Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,781 | By Bill Claybrook 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. Nov. 12, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 38,570 Replies: 17 | By Bill Claybrook 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 so... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,999 | By Bill Claybrook 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 L... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,930 | By Bill Claybrook 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. Aug. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 26,727 Replies: 1 | By Bill Claybrook 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. Jul. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,365 | By Bill Claybrook 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 supp... Jun. 14, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,991 Replies: 12 | By Bill Claybrook '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 re... Jun. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,102 Replies: 2 | By Bill Claybrook '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... Jun. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,638 | By Bill Claybrook '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 cust... Jun. 3, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,106 Replies: 6 | By Bill Claybrook 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 ... May. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,013 Replies: 11 | By Bill Claybrook Former Aberdeen analyst Bill Claybrook reviews the two important Linux-related announcements made this week by Novell. May. 14, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,547 |
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Bill Claybrook is President of New River Marketing Research, a marketing research firm that focuses on Linux, open source software, and commercial grid computing. He performs primary research and helps marketing organizations plan for new product offerings and develop go-to-market strategies, as well as develop marketing analysis content. Prior to entering commercial computing and marketing research, he was Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and the University of Connecticut, as well as Professor of Software Engineering at the Wang Institute of Software Engineering.
