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All Things D says that Yahoo is buying Zimbra. Congrats to the Zimbra team for keeping the OSS acquisition numbers in the stratosphere! $350 million is a nice chunk of change. Note to big companies: you better buy the OSS startups now before they are
Ok, this strikes me as weird. After so many years of bashing Microsoft and saying how other companies were foolish to sell Windows, Sun is now planning on reselling Windows. And Linux. And Solaris. Which they open source. And also sell as closed sour
Today's NY Times (login maybe required) has an article discussing Apple's over-focus on the iPod as Mac computers appear to languish with few new features and limited new models. This is something that we have written about before here on O
Looks like predictions have come true for SCO as they have now filed for bankruptcy. While I'm sure many will be cheering SCO's demise, this may hurt SCO customers even worse. They're going to need to make plans to migrate to a more ma
Cnet Reports that SCO filed for Chapter Eleven "The Board of Directors of the SCO Group have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best long-term interest of SCO and its subsidiaries, as well as its customers, sharehold
Apparently while I was attending the BEAWorld and VMworld conferences in San Francisco this week, the pretty blue globe we call home kept on spinning, particularly where GPL v3 is concerned. On Wednesday an interview with Mr. Richard Stallman -- Pres
"Open source prima donnas to crush IBM, BEA and MS in 2008" say Dave, Matt and Ashlee in our latest podcast on The Register. As proof that we listen to our, er, listeners, we've broken this show up into two sections. The first consists
The Motley Fool has a pretty interesting article on IT analyst firms such as Gartner & Forrester. I've worked with these firms for nearly a decade and do believe that they provide a valuable service to their customers and the IT market i
I mentioned the Gartner conference among a few of the upcoming open source events this fall. I've been to the past versions of this conference in Phoenix and in Orlando and it's a very good event for managers and newcomers to Open Source. I
From the InfoWorld story about Sun OEMing Windows Server with the Sun Fire server line for customers that want to use Windows. "The Sun Fire servers already support Windows Server, along with Red Hat Linux, Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux, V