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- Net access no fundamental right
- News.com's Matt Asay finds much to mock in European Commission head Viviane Reding's argument that Internet access is a human right (quoting Matt here: "Microsoft Word document, which is really very ironic") The fourth element I would like to underline is the recognition of the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- IBM's potential purchase of Sun: Here's why it makes sense
- IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate some server market share. First, the headlines. The Wall Street Journal is reporting...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenship
- For IBM, software is a shared store from which it benefits, and to which it contributes. The company has built an arms-length relationship with the whole process of improving code. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- How Dell can win in mobility
- What made Dell famous was mass customization. Back in the day when PCs had a wide variety of options and price points Dell made money by selling direct and producing on demand. Maybe it's time we applied that lesson to mobility. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- EMC gets open source mojo cheap
- These are "Mr. Potter" days in the tech business. He who has the gold makes the rules. We dance to the tune of cash. While open source is based on principle, the principals can't live on that alone. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-03
- Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?
- Well yes, but not strictly for the reasons people think. It was once safe back in the day where there were little vulnerabilities to play havoc with the software; back in a time where Internet usage was innocent, and people wanted to create websites about interpreting the mindset of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Metrics of open source success
- There is such a thing as enough money. And there are other drives, equally vital, that open source can satisfy. Some are drives felt keenly by people with lots of money, while with others money is irrelevant. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Open source is more than a business model. It is more than a development model. It represents a new model for how we deal with all information -- not just software. It teaches that sharing code, sharing data, and sharing views makes us stronger. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Business family, open source community
- To truly make an open source project a community project, a business has to completely let go of it, and recognize that it may go in unexpected directions, directions which don't embrace the business' vision, which may in fact run counter to it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Competing with your own channel
- Matt Asay has a truly fine piece out today about open source vendors competing with their own channels. What he's talking about are companies that sell support for "community" versions of your product. (I have no idea if John Wingert's sales techniques work, but his picture encapsulates the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- How evil is China?
- Matt Asay has a headline today that's doubtless worth a click -- Microsoft and Novell seek to exonerate Chinese piracy. The news peg is that Microsoft and Novell extended their existing agreement on IP to China. They call it "an incremental investment in their relationship" aimed...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- The battle for the embedded market heats up
- Matt Asay has a nifty piece up right now about the embedded Linux market. It's well worth reading. Readers may think, however, that the key to market victory here lies in Taiwan, or maybe even China. I don't think it does. I think it's...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop
- Matt Asay loves the new Zimbra Desktop client. They're using Prism as the desktop client, the project from Mozilla labs that came out of Mozilla's WebRunner. It's great to see people like Matt get the need for desktop applications. More and more I think people are realizing that they just...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Is Trend Micro-Barracuda case a hair on fire moment?
- Matt Asay thinks so. He's certain of it in fact. (Picture from Learn-Shiatsu of the UK.) Matt says Trend Micro is making claims for its patent (number 5,623,600 if you're scoring at home) that make open source anti-virals illegal. He may...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: CIOs will hunt me down to pay me money
- Matt Asay has an interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on news.com. Schwartz explains how having millions of downloads of Sun's Solaris and Java translates into bounty for the company and its shareholders.Asay: But how do you translate interest and volume into customers? Downloads are nice, but how do you...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- How Microsoft helps open source
- One of our newest C|Net bloggers, Matt Asay, is a player.That is, he makes his living as vice president for business development at Alfresco Software, an open source content management company.This gives him an insider's perspective I can't match. (I make up for it somehow.) Yesterday, it made Asay my interview...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Did open source kill the component business?
- For over a decade Ive been hearing the same hype. The way to IT productivity is to build applications out of components. For a time, the building of component models like Microsofts DCOM was one of the computer medias best spectator sports.But has open source simply replaced the component model...
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
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- mySQL starring as Peter Pan
- the solution is simple...Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQL and the deal will sail through.That would work, but...I don't know if Oracle is willing to commit to that. Instead they're doing the old National Lampoon "buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog" trick, laying off 10% of Sun's...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
- The co-founders of mySQL have profound disagreements on the future of the open source database following Oracle's takeover. Monty Widenius wants mySQL sold, not given to Oracle, telling reporters his Monty AB encouraged the investigation that has held up the Oracle-Sun deal. Meanwhile Marten...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Seeking a Stallman for open source
- Much of Perlow's anger, and that of our own Matt Asay, is directed at Stallman's continued contempt for Microsoft, his suspicion that Microsoft's every action is part of some grand conspiracy. Perlow, Asay, and the open source movement as opposed to FLOSS want to make peace with Microsoft. by Dana...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
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