RedMonk co-founder analyst Stephen O’Grady calls out Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri’s statement that “Open source never seems to be the innovator. Instead, it seems to disrupt pricing power for established technologies” in a blog post today. O’Grady cites a few examples of innovative open source software, but focuses instead of the motivations for creating software ...

Paul Hartzog is a political scientist and futurist at the Future Forward Institute and the University of Michigan. His most recent project is Flows, a “meta-API” that aims to turn the Web and the Internet of Things into a real ecosystem by enabling interoperability. I talked to him at the Contact event last week in ...

Citrix announced this morning at its Synergy event that it will acquire App-DNA, a company that sells a comprehensive application migration tool. Terms of the agreement were not released. Citrix also made a dizzying number of other announcements at the event relating to its ambitions to offer solutions for every layer and aspect of cloud ...

John McCarthy, a computer scientist and creator of the Lisp programming language, died Sunday at the age of 84, according to The Register. McCarthy was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and even coined the term. He created Lisp in 1958 as a tool for furthering AI work, though the language has found broader use since ...

Today at its Workday Rising event, Workday announced a new integration partner: Tidemark, an enterprise performance management company that just came out of stealth last week after changing its name from Proferi. It offers an impressive set of business analytics tools hosted in the cloud, which users will soon be able to access within Workday. ...

AppFog, previously known as PHPFog, rounds out its PHP, Ruby and Node.js platform-as-a-service offering with Java support today. AppFog was founded last year as a PHP PaaS, but changed its name to AppFog in August when it adopted VMware’s Cloud Foundry as a layer of the PaaS. Since then, AppFog has contributed PHP management tools ...

J. Chris Anderson is chief architect of mobile technology at Couchbase, a company dedicated to developing and commercializing the open source projects Apache CouchDB and Membase. I interviewed Anderson at Contact, an unconference dedicated to the peer-to-peer culture, decentralizing the Web, routing around Internet censorship, building new digital currencies and more. We talked about how ...

Oracle announced today that it will acquire cloud-based customer service vendor RightNow for approximately $1.5 billion. After the acquisition RightNow’s services will be offered as part of Oracle’s Public Cloud. RightNow offers a wide range of customer experience products and services, including CRM, but it’s probably best known currently for its cloud-based RightNow CX service, ...

Here’s something about Microsoft’s Q1 results that caught my eye: Microsoft Dynamics revenue grew 17% this quarter. Microsoft’s been marketing Dynamics hard over the past year, including the horrible “I Didn’t Get Forced” campaign, and it seems to be working. Although Microsoft is a giant in certain key areas – desktop operating systems, office suites, ...

Microsoft has only demoed Windows 8 tablets in landscape mode thus far, which lead to speculation that landscape is all it would support. It also led to a large amount of skepticism about the operating system and its viability on tablets. But this week on the official Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft developers confirmed that ...