James Dixon’s Blog

James Dixon’s thoughts on commercial open source and open source business intelligence

Twitters

• Pentaho and DataStax wp.me/pfXk3-dp 2 months ago
• Pentaho's Big Data Release wp.me/pfXk3-dg 3 months ago
• Lots of really cool FOSS big data tech announced by Pentaho: wiki.pentaho.com/display/BAD #mongodb #hbase #hadoop #cassandra #nosql 3 months ago
• Re: SOPA. We get all our toys and household goods from China. Let's get our laws from them as well, what can possibly go wrong? 4 months ago

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• About
• Forking Protocol: Why, When, and How to Fork an Open Source Project
• Many Ways To Contribute To Open Source
• The ‘Long Tail’ of the Business Intelligence Market
• The Bees And The Trees – Part I
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Why Commercial Open Source
  • 3. The Principles of Open Source
  • 4. Open Source Model
  • 5. Proprietary Model
  • 6. Commercial Open Source Model
  • 7. Service/Support Model
  • 8. Summary
  • 9. More Information
• The Bees and the Trees – Part II
  • 1. The Market
  • 2. Company and Management
  • 3. Software Development
  • Quality Assurance
• The Way It Is

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