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It's only Tuesday and there have been two more acquisitions in the open source market. While these aren't huge deals on the scale of JBoss or MySQL, they do signify ongoing consolidation in the market. -Nokia acquires Trolltech -SpringSourc
Hewlett-Packard's announcement of open source FOSSology and FOSSBazaar projects unfairly downplays participation of other companies, OpenLogic CEO says
Just hours before my meeting with Rod to "get an update on what SpringSource has been up to", they go and pull the trigger on this...the nerve of these OSS upstarts! ;-) InfoWorld reports: "Through the acquisition, SpringSource plans t
Upcoming release features automatic merge tracking -- finally!
Merger deepens support for Spring-plus-Tomcat Java enterprise platform
I couldn't resist using the title from the press release. Mathew Aslett has a nice summary of Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech for about $153M USD. The deal appears to be for ~4x 2007 estimated revenues of ~$40M USD. Trolltech offers Qt for
This post is mostly off topic, but I do no know there are quite a few runners in the open source world. We have a modest-sized running club at MySQL with many marathoners, and there's also guys like Marc Fleury, Matt Asay who have also run marat
Here are a few upcoming open source conferences worth paying attention to: - SugarCRM Developers Conference, Feb 6-8, San Jose, CA - PHP Quebec, March 12-14, Montreal, Canada - EclipseCon, March 17-20, Santa Clara, CA - OSBC, March 25-26, San Francis
Many of you likely missed Microsoft's earnings announcement. Considering all the news about LoopFuse, "a JBoss alumni-led startup" today, who could blame you? Since Roy Russo (whose life goal appears to be making fun of Canadians and m