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 Li... (more)

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 ope... (more)

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. You replaced Jonathan Schwartz several months ago as Sun's ... (more)

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 sou... (more)

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 implication... (more)

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. The pioneers of open source were more interested in building software that helped them achiev... (more)

On June 17, 2004, Red Hat announced what I would call a good a good 1Q05 (the quarter ended on May 31, 2004). The revenue for the quarter was $41.6M - a 53% year over year increase. That number will likely change with Red Hat's re-statement of its revenue after PricewaterhouseCoo... (more)

Microsoft just doesn't seem to "get the facts." The company, according to news reports, is at it again - paying companies to produce FUD for it. The company is doing a disservice to some really top-notch products it produces by continuing to try to discredit Linux and other open ... (more)

Today I read an article by a journalist with quotes by analysts about Linux and how difficult that it will be to move to Linux from Windows and from UNIX in some cases. Then there is this book written by someone named Kenneth Brown based on a study of Linux and its derivation. Mr... (more)

In the past day or two, a Sun executive - president and COO Jonathan Schwartz - announced again Sun’s intent to open source the Solaris operating system. This is not the first time that this topic has been recently aired. I also heard this from a couple of Sun executives at the Sun... (more)

I don’t get it. Sun is still trying to go against market trends and push Solaris on SPARC when many customers want Linux. Sun has a wonderful volume server business with Solaris on SPARC. In fact, Sun has lowered its SPARC-based volume server prices so much that it can compete on... (more)

On Monday, Linus Torvalds announced that software developers making contributions to Linux would have to “sign their work” and “vouch for its origin” via a Developer’s Certificate of Origin. Linus claims that the Developer’s Certification of Origin is needed primarily as a trail ... (more)

In the past two days, Novell has made two important Linux-related announcements  - the release of its Connector for Microsoft Exchange Server to open source and expansion of its Premium Service support for Linux. The release of Connector makes the entire Evolution product available... (more)