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Barracuda makes $186 million cash offer to purchase the maker of open-source Snort and ClamAV security software
After two months of living with my Palm Centro, I am finding that it just doesn't have the battery life to get through a full day of travel. If I'm in the office, or out at a couple of customer or partner meetings, no problem; I can survive
I've been a little out of touch lately -- crazy accounting project for school -- but was able to carve out a little time to chat with the guys at Engine Yard who are doing some cool things with Ruby. Engine Yard employs Evan Phoenix, the founder
I just read Mary Jo Foley's post titled: "Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google". In it, she quotes Microsoft's Ray Ozzie: "Microsoft has built up a culture of crisis," Ozzie told conference attende
Microsoft has made a concerted effort to open up its software and work with open source, but many wonder if the company has an ulterior motive
Microsoft has pledged to support the ODF file format as well as Adobe's PDF file format in forthcoming versions of it's Office suite expected in the first half of 2009. While this is good news for improving compatibility between office suit
In The Register's Open Season podcast #17, Matt Asay admits he's beccome frustrated with the amount of venting that occurs periodically in the open source community. Matt's been a champion of open source for years, yet he still got fla
Interesting commentary from Microsoft's Jason Matusow and Doug Mahugh, and IBM's Bob Sutor on today's announcement that Microsoft will support read/write to ODF 1.1 in Office 2007 SP2. Jason writes: "For years, I have vocally disa
I just spent some time looking at Apatar, a company that's offering an extract, transform, load (ETL) and data integration solution under the GPL (with commercial support subscriptions available also). The really cool thing is that Apatar provid
Ok, the headline's a cliché. I apologize for that. But given RIM's announcement of the new Blackberry Bold (AKA Blackberry 9000) at their developer conference, what would you expect? RIM has had the number one position in Smartphones