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SourceFire, which has built a good business commercializing the open source SNORT intrusion detection system has now acquired ClamAV, the leading open source anti-virus software. This is a good move for SourceFire and helps them expand their footprin
Dana's post on the Sun & IBM deal has two very interesting statements: "This is part of Sun’s exit strategy from the server business." And: "In many ways, Sun is becoming Red Hat." On the conference call, Schwar
I really try not to write about IBM news but this one is more about Sun than IBM..... IBM & Sun announced: "IBM will distribute the Solaris Operating System and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCen
I was quite busy at work today so I'm only catching up on blog reading now. My arch nemesis has been busy :-) BTW, when do you do your day job? Can I get a job at Alfresco???? :-) Kidding aside....Matt says: "$500 million is a hefty premium
Following fast on the heals of VMWare's successful IPO earlier in the week, Citrix has announced the acquisition of XenSource for a cool $500 million. Considering that XenSource is less than three years old and has around $1 million in revenues,
I’m having a lot of difficulty understanding the debate surrounding MySQL’s decision to make their enterprise binaries and source less available than before. I was hoping that a few days into it I would get a better sense of the debate an
It is funny how Matt and I can read the same article and come up with different conclusions. I read this article and thought that Adobe's entry into the Office applications market has little to do with OSS or Open Standards, so no need to blog a
Preamble: I am not a lawyer, though I often wish that I had gone to law school and not business school so that I could possibly explain open source licensing and how we've somehow made freely available software as complicated as telecom. The fac
Roy Russo, of Loopfuse, said: "I have to say the funniest things about your posts are: "The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions." I guess its indicative o
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