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- What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?
- What happens for Linux if IBM does buy Sun?Plenty of room for Sun & Linux distro'sI think they need to grow the Sun infrastructure offerings as a replacement for the MS/Intel offerings.Diversification in this area is vital to survival, in technology cookie-cutter solutions to not exist and the customer needs...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Open source as the villain in its own story
- Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun's well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. After all, if the code is free and visible why should an enterprise customer write a check to its...
- Tags: Asset, Open Source, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
- Mr. Buzzword for February appears to be proprietary open source. This is an open source project which is owned or controlled by one company. Even though it may have a GPL license, you have no more power over it than a single voter in a political system....
- Tags: Blog, Definition, IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- IBM open source strategy becomes clearer
- With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy. Savio Rodriguez Rodrigues is the Infoworld blogger in question, and this is fair play because he is, in fact, an...
- Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., Savio, Websphere CE, OpenOffice, Blogging, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- What is the true value of open source?
- There are many ways to measure the value of open source. But no one measure gives the true picture.(A print of this hangs in my living room. Its presence here will be explained.)Savio Rodrigues recently measured it through venture capital returns. But with open source squeezing costs out of software,...
- Tags: business models, Events, General, Infrastructure, management, mass market, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as FedoraOne more proof...... that open sopurce companies are selling software. The selling services idea has no more effect than changing the line items on the bill.Open source is an ideology, but it's also a method of development. As a...
- Tags: Java development tools, Tools & Techniques, Development tools, open source, JBoss, software, Fedora Project
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora
- In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...
- Tags: Commercial, Community, Ed Burnette, Fedora Project, General, JBoss, Licenses, Linux, Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
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