http://press.teleinteractive.net/oss/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:27:19 +0000 Joseph A. di Paolantonio [Member] c13199@http://press.teleinteractive.net/ Mark,<br /> <br /> as far as I know, Bizgres is the Greenplum database, but much as MySQL has dual-licensing, Bizgres is the free, open source version, with Greenplum founding the Bizgres project as the BI/query optimized distro of PostgreSQL, and then adding even more to it, such as MPP [similar to Oracle's OPS] to make their commercially licensed version.<br /> <br /> Also, it's my understanding that Pentaho dropped their "professional" version - they went 100% open source some months ago.<br /> <br /> I think that there will be continual grey areas while business models for open source are tested and solidified.
as far as I know, Bizgres is the Greenplum database, but much as MySQL has dual-licensing, Bizgres is the free, open source version, with Greenplum founding the Bizgres project as the BI/query optimized distro of PostgreSQL, and then adding even more to it, such as MPP [similar to Oracle's OPS] to make their commercially licensed version.

Also, it's my understanding that Pentaho dropped their "professional" version - they went 100% open source some months ago.

I think that there will be continual grey areas while business models for open source are tested and solidified.]]> http://press.teleinteractive.net/oss/2007/03/01/open_source_to_be_or_not#c13199 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:00:58 +0000 Mark Madsen [Visitor] c13198@http://press.teleinteractive.net/ Interesting debate, and maybe one where the granularity of the question is a problem.<br /> <br /> You used Greenplum as an example of an OSS company. Bizgres is open source. The Greenplum database is not, so far as I can tell. I haven't gone into the details of how they leverage Postgres without having to open the Greenplum database but it's a question on my list for them.<br /> <br /> I think the proper focus isn't the company but the product. There we run into the problem of product vs. versions of the product.<br /> <br /> I was thinking about this with regard to JasperSoft recently. They differentiated from Pentaho by having the commercially licensed and open source versions be identical. I saw something that indicates they are now backing away from this and will have a commercial version with somewhat different features.
You used Greenplum as an example of an OSS company. Bizgres is open source. The Greenplum database is not, so far as I can tell. I haven't gone into the details of how they leverage Postgres without having to open the Greenplum database but it's a question on my list for them.

I think the proper focus isn't the company but the product. There we run into the problem of product vs. versions of the product.

I was thinking about this with regard to JasperSoft recently. They differentiated from Pentaho by having the commercially licensed and open source versions be identical. I saw something that indicates they are now backing away from this and will have a commercial version with somewhat different features.]]> http://press.teleinteractive.net/oss/2007/03/01/open_source_to_be_or_not#c13198