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As the magazine business is getting disrupted by the web, I've seen countless good magazines fall by the wayside. Intelligent Enterprise, Infoworld, Guitar One (!) and now Business 2.0. One of my favorite columns in Biz 2.0 was by Jeffrey Pfeffe
It seems like a bit of the fluttering around VCs funding OSS companies had died down. But just because there is less funding going on doesn't mean that OSS isn't still growing or that VCs aren't interested. Two of the MuleSource invest
I am hesitant to even mention Novell at this point but I saw this article "Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux sales" wherein Novell gushes about how well they are doing thanks to their satanic pact with Microsoft. Novell says its Li
This morning I read through an interesting translation of a 10 question written interview between members of the Brazilian Linux Community and Novell. Of course there are some revealing tidbits about Mono and ODF (two areas of strange attraction betw
Interesting rumors surfaced this week at AppleInsider about a new Apple Tablet or PDA some are dubbing a return of the Newton. For those who missed it, the Newton was Apple's much maligned too-early entry into the handheld market and quickly ecl
Ok, I'm a little travelled out with recent trips to around the US visiting customers, the Gartner conference and a trip to Europe for our developer meeting in Germany. So I'm glad that the upcoming Zend PHP conference (Oct 8-11) is in the b
The latest episode in our Open Season Meatcast is now online at The Register. This time we talk about Google, Yahoo, Salesforce and all your other favorite internet overlords. The next episode (#4) brings Mark Shuttleworth to the party. More on that
Red Hat reported great numbers today. The stock was down in after hours trading, and I suspect it will be down tomorrow. The stock movement will likely be based on comments about the JBoss division by Red Hat's CEO. Forbes reports: "Sales c
If you're a private open source company, how do you compete against the likes of Google or VMWare for talent? At MySQL, we've found that one of the most attractive elements of the company is the fact that we are globally distributed. We hav
With all of the hubbub last week surrounding SCO's pending demise and IBM's open desktop play, you may not have noticed that the heavens have shifted just a tad. No, it had nothing to do with this weekend's autumnal equinox. That seems