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Andy McCue at Silicon.com points to a Gartner report that, in many ways, reiterates what we've all been seeing. "Gartner has identified seven major trends converging to change software delivery models, reduce dependence on the giant applica
Rather than using Sun's Java Micro Edition and paying licensing fees for it, Google built its own alternative called Dalvik for use in its Android mobile platform
Guy Kawasaki, prolific author, blogger, Garage Technology Ventures investor and the man behind Truemors, has posted videos of his interview with Fake Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons at a recent LinkedIn Q&A event. It's one of the funniest interviews I
I previously questioned Red Hat's apparent lack of love for Hyperic. Today, Stacey Schneider, Senior Director of Marketing at Hyperic, tipped me off to a joint Hyperic & Red Hat announcement. Stacey writes: "Finally today we announc
The market for server virtualization software appears to have gotten a whole lot more crowded this week. Not only did Oracle announce free server virtualization software at the Oracle Open World conference, but Microsoft and VMWare also made announce
Ben Worthen of the WSJ uses IBM's acquisition of Cognos to make the point that midsize tech companies are going extinct. The end result will definitely be a reduction in vendor choice. While conventional wisdom says less choice is bad, this is n
I just read Colin Baker's article about a European OSS support provider named Credativ. The Credativ website claims: "credativ support covers a large number of open source projects, including: Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Red Hat, Xandros, Mandriv
Following on the heels of two major BI acquisitions this year by Oracle and SAP, IBM has announced the acquisition of Cognos for $5 billion in cash. This is a modest premium of around 9% for Cognos, but considering all that's going on in the ind
There have been a few stories along these lines: "According to Mozilla's 2006 financial records...last year collected $66 million in revenue. Eighty-five percent came from a single source - Google. But, despite a pledge to use Firefox reven