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- The Comdexification of Linux
- Linuxworld hits San Francisco next week with 11,000 attendees. The media is filled with stories about the "mainstreaming" of open source.Maybe. I'm more worried about open source Comdexifying, about Comdexification if you will.If you're under 30 you may barely know what I'm talking about. But back in the last century...
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Dear Zonbu, think server
- Zonbu is billing itself as a cheap client, a PC replacement, the true $100 laptop.But what if you called it a server?Its $12.95/month service charge is designed to pay for online updates, including security updates and backup services. If you have a home network, two kids each with a PC,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- How big should the Linux kernel be?
- Great news. The Emulex Virtual Host Bus Adapter HBA driver is being made part of the Linux kernel.What this means is support for enterprise scale fiber connections is actually going to be inside the core of the operating system. Cool.It's just another indication of how robust Linux is becoming, thanks...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Linus vs. the GPLv3
- Linus Torvalds is like my mama.As in, when mama ain't happy, ain't no one happy. (Picture from Wikimedia Commons.)Right now, Linus ain't happy, not at all. Especially about GPLv3. He considers the anti-Tivoization provisions in the new license, which keep you from crippling hardware containing software using the license, to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Most Presidential candidates use open source
- Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted.(Why is this fellow here? All will be revealed soon, grasshopper.)Karr's methodology was not rocket science. He used Netcraft. You can do it,...
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- The power to fight Microsoft is IBM
- The last time we had a discussion of IBM in this space there was a lot of pushback. (I found this Think sign alongside the memories of an old IBM-er.)Much of it came from folks citing a Cringely report that IBM was about to lay-off 150,000 developers. The final number was...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Hanrahan hire shows true Microsoft weakness
- Microsoft's hire of Tom Hanrahan right, formerly director of engineering for the Linux Foundation (and before that of the OSDL, one of its predecessors) says a lot about the company's true open source situation.Hanrahan will now be running Microsoft's interoperability lab, which it set up after its Novell deal. His immediate...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Xandros deal is Microsoft water torture strategy
- Long-time readers of this blog may remember how two years ago I sat down to lunch with Marc Fleury, then running JBoss.Fleury was celebrating because he'd signed a re-sale agreement with Microsoft. The deal was superior to one IBM offered, he told me, in that it did not interfere with his...
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Open source does the good-cop, bad-cop routine
- One of the great frustrations in dealing with Microsoft on open source questions is its tendency to play "good-cop bad-cop" games. (The image at right is actually the logo of a record label in Boston, which you might want to visit.)Good-cop bad-cop is a great interrogation technique "As Seen On...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Are Linux vendors predatory?
- I want to continue our discussion about penguins as predators by talking about Covalent.(This limited edition ale was described as ""a bomber you can't refuse" by its producer, Boulder Brewing.)Covalent's business is supporting open source projects, then selling direct support of the same software to corporate clients. Covalent doesn't launch projects....
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Zemlin of Linux Foundation lets fly at Microsoft
- The reason for the merger which created the Linux Foundation was to give open source a big, unified platform from which to respond to threats. (Picture of penguins flying in the water is by Guillaume Daugard.)Given the reality of Microsoft's patent threat, it was only a matter of time before...
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Novell document dump makes it look like a scandal
- The Washington game of dumping incriminating documents late on a Friday is well-known. When someone does it, suspicions are raised. (Image from the blog of La Shawn Barber.)Now Novell has done just that with its Friday night document dump on the Microsoft agreement. Just to make us even more suspicious,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- Is no news good news for Red Hat?
- Red Hat held its annual summit in San Diego this week. It drew scant press coverage.There were news announcements:Red Hat announced a Linux on mainframes program. There is still money in big iron.Red Hat will build a Virtual Appliance OS with Intel, delivering virtualization to desktops using Intels vPro.Red Hat...
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Stuart Cohen tackling the vertical application stack
- Whatever happened to Stuart Cohen, former head of the OSDL, now part of the Linux Foundation?He sent out a press release today, and it seems hes launched an effort called the Collaborative Software Initiative CSI. The initials are cute, but the intent is to build open...
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Do We Need Operating Systems?
- RedHat will announce RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 today, at a dicey time for the industry.Wall Street has begun to sour on Linux as a business. Douglas MacIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street is among the disenchanted."Linux has been a bust," he wrote last week. Total revenues for RedHat and Novell combined...
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Less to Raymond letter than meets the eye, or more?
- Eric Raymond left has switched his desktop from RedHat to Ubuntu.Is that a headline? Sounds more like a celebrity endorsement to me.And make no mistake, Eric Raymond is a celebrity. At least in the corner of the computing world called open source he is. People in this world recognize the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- The commie smear against open source
- There are days on this beat when I fear Im covering politics, not business.It happens when the proprietary companies trot out their FUD that open source is somehow socialist, communist, as pink as its programmers underwear.Because proprietary companies will always spend more of their money on marketing than open source...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- IBM pushes enterprise Linux profit center
- I dont write enough about IBM here.The company refuses to be too sexy for its shirt, with a formal, coat-and-tie corporate culture nearly a century old. They dont do many turns on the industry cat walk. They dont go in for big parties.But IBM defines the enterprise space, still the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- There will be no Linux Vista
- In a fascinating TV-type interview with ZDNet Australia, Linus Torvalds (your choice on who speaks for Linux, if anyone does) says hes in no hurry to update the Linux kernel from its present Version, 2.6, which has been out for about 2 1/2 years. Given the current hoopla over the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Linux Foundation to be more like Apache
- Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, says his vision for the group is to make it like Apache, or Mozilla, or Eclipse. The CEA is right out.And anyone can use the penguin. Zemlin comes to this work from the software industry, having worked at Covalent and then the...
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
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