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Earlier this week I wrote a "what if" post suggesting that Microsoft buy Red Hat. The comments here and on my personal blog were lively to say the least. Many comments were a variation of the "wow, you're clueless" theme. I a
Mozilla ponders creating a separate organization to take control of its e-mail app, freeing the company to concentrate on its Web browser
SugarCRM, one of the leading open source applications, has announced plans to switch their current Mozilla derived Sugar Public license in favor of the new GPL 3 license for their next community version in September. While SugarCRM took some heat for
Company decision a sign of wider debate in open source community over legitimacy of licenses and businesses not approved by Open Source Initiative
This is the second year that Oscon has included a one day conference-within-a-conference called O'Reilly Radar, intended as an executive level briefing session on new open source or related technologies. The agenda includes a wide range of topic
Open source content management software popular with nonprofits and educational organizations draws on expertise of users
Ian Howells, Doctor of Marketing over at Alfresco, has published results of a survey of their users to come up with a barometer of open source. While the sample is from Alfresco's own users (and perhaps a bit skewed), it's an interesting sn
Middleware for smart devices will allow doctors to remotely monitor the health of their patients
Recently, JasperSoft began shipping version 2.0 of their Business Intelligence Suite. JasperSoft has risen to prominence on the popularity of JasperReports open source reporting for Java. Since the company's launch they have been rounding out th
Some background: Matt asked "Why doesn't Oracle just buy Red Hat?" I explained why Oracle would not buy Red Hat Luis Villa replied to Matt's question: "Because Red Hat employees would leave en masse." Microsoft announced