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In the last couple of years, it seemed that Oracle was setting out to acquire just about every independent software company, outbidding SAP in several occasions. But now with SAP's planned acquisition of Business Objects, it's clearly a sig
2007 is shaping up to be a banner year for open source companies. SourceForge, which hosts almost 160,000 projects, just posted fiscal year 2007 revenues that showed a hefty 35 percent increase over 2006. Red Hat posted a 28 percent revenue increase
Networkworld is reporting: "The leader of Microsoft's integration efforts around open source software and its proprietary technologies is expanding his role by adding the title "general manager of Windows server marketing," furthe
There is a very interesting video of Steve Ballmer speaking in the UK. As always, entertaining and a little bizarre. Talking about advertising "A lot of people don't like to pay for things." "Will online publications be all ad fun
This must have been announced previously (?) but this press release was recently emailed to us... The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), will host a Leg
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In case you haven't guessed, I'm off line and wrote this week's blog entries in advance. To help round out the week, you get to create your own custom blog posting just by filling in the blanks below. How hard can it be? I think Matt A
In addition to today's BusinessWeek story on "Reinventing Sun" (not a lot of new info for those of us who have been playing along.) I came across this post from Jim Laurent outlining Scott McNealy's thoughts on why Sun went open s
Last week in-between all my pizza parties and chinese food (food is the only thing I miss about the east coast) we somehow managed to record Episode Four of Open Season, the podcast dedicated to making listeners laugh and/or retch. We had the honorab
By now, we've all read that Microsoft is releasing the .NET 3.5 source under the Microsoft Research License (i.e. look but don't touch). I view this is but another step into the OSS swimming pool. I'm willing to bet a shinny new Loonie