Replacing Skype - TEDN is using the force (again)

2025-05-04 Software-Craftsmanship Augmented-by-AI Nerdy Open-Source Remote TEDN Tips & Tricks

First of all: May the 4th be with you! Always!!!

Star Wars 'May the 4th be with you' themed image
Star Wars 'May the 4th be with you' themed image — Source: Flickr

Second: (Obviously) In May ...

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Commercial Open Source for Apache Projects - Survival of the fittest

2009-01-22 Management Open-Source

Just found another company offering commercial support for Apache ServiceMix and Apache ActiveMQ (like we do :)). For me this is good news. It shows ...

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Apache CXF vs. Axis 2 - The current state of affairs or The missing book

2008-12-07 Software-Engineering Open-Source Web-Services SOAP SOA

(Blogging from the plane again. This time on my way to the Progress
Sales Kickoff in Miami.)

The other day I stumbled over a good presentation
from ...

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FUSE on the german autobahn - listing to a CAOS podcast

2008-11-25 Software-Engineering Open-Source

For private reasons I had/have to spend some time in Germany these days. The house of my parents is about 45 mins away from the office, means I get to ...

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Open Core Licensing - moving from "bait-and-switch" to "suggest-and-complement"

2008-11-11 Software-Engineering Open-Source

The Open Core Licensing discussion is really refreshing! Lots of good ideas and lots of good energy. Obviously the “earlier” versions of ...

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Open Source Marketing - and what it got to do with the Michelin brothers

2008-11-11 Management Open-Source

Open Core Licensing and the business model behind it is not (really) new. When you look at it from a history/marketing point of view there are lots of ...

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Open Source Business Models - Open-Core Licensing

2008-09-02 Management Open-Source

OH NO, please!!! YABOOSBM!!! Yet another blog entry on open-source business models :).

Ok, let’s make it as short and as sweet as possible :). ...

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Open Source Innovation - Fact or Fiction

2008-08-25 Software-Engineering Open-Source Innovation

Is Open Source Innovation an oxymoron? Is Open-source fostering innovation or killing it?

There are two school of thoughts out there: First, there are ...

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Software Engineering Radio - talking about OSGi, Rest, Opensource, ...

2008-06-23 Software-Engineering Books OSGi Open-Source

In the last four weeks a lot of people asked me about this “show” I am listening to on my way to work. It is called Software Engineering ...

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