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- Open source is a sales model
- Open source is a sales modelKey point"While most open source firms look at open licenses as lowering their R&D costs,... [Yes, reduced R&D staff costs as a result of the generosity of people willing to replace employees at no cost.]... it's this lower sales cost Soward believes is the real...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes
- I had the honor last week of chatting with William Hurley, CTO of Qlusters, the open source data management outfit. The headline was that its openQRM project would deliver plug-in support for all the major virtualization projects -- Xen, VMWare, QEMU, VServer -- whatever. For enterprises this is...
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishment
- Earlier this year Qlusters crossed the chasm from proprietary to open source software. The small company, backed by blue-chip VCs, took nearly three years of proprietary code development for its sophisticated systems management software and open sourced it under a modified attribution only Mozilla Public License. Now, armed with a...
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
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- Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0
- Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- You can look but you better not touch
- Microsoft tried to tiptoe onto the open source incline today by releasing the .Net Framework under what it calls the Microsoft Reference License. You may read the license language here, or just read this from guest analyst Mr. Bruce Springsteen:  I came home from work and I...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- WHurley spins BMC into open source
- William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch,  I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Open source battles the mooch-o-meter
- Groundwork is trumpeting a Gartner report which describes a growing chorus of grumbles concerning the "big four" of IT management -- HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter and BMC Patrol.But in discussing the report with ZDNet Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product management and marketing left, acknowledged that the "big bang"...
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- How much noise should an enterprise vendor make?
- Most enterprise software vendors are quiet. Theyre more William H. Macy than Tom Cruise. Big customers like that, which may be why firms in what I call IBMs posse, like CentricCRM, dont try to make news. Do your job, keep your customers satisfied, and word will get out as far...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Google's high-speed battle with Microsoft
- Bill Gates has indicated he is fed up with Google being seen as the ‘thought leader’ of the Internet Age. Steve Ballmer believes "We have the birthright to lead the pack. Weve got more technology. Weve got more experience."Is that enough in the Microsoft vs. Google saga? After all, Google’s...
- Blog posts 2007-03-18
- New alliance seeks mass market system management
- I hate being a system manager. Yet I, like millions of other consumers and business owners, inherited the chore once we installed simple networks for kids or employees.Most of us do a very poor job. Proprietary tools are expensive and difficult to use. Open source has some interesting projects underway,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- Sun, Microsoft tout fruits of cooperation
- Sun, Microsoft tout fruits of cooperationMixed emotions for me and my rep...My rep and I attended this demonstration with mixed emotions. On the one hand, we support everything Microsoft does to the extreme because the software, as my rep puts it, "rules man, just rules". On the other hand, seeing...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-13
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