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You know, if you're a proprietary software company this sort of news must be really depressing. It just keeps coming. Every day. A new software acquisition and development program is focusing on boosting efficiency and decreasing lifecycle costs
I just finished reading Nick Carr's "The Ignorance of Crowds." [PDF] A great read, and important for those who want help seeing open source's potential...as well as its limitations. First, the potential. Nick traces the seemingly
It's that time of year where things start to get crazy and we need a minute to regroup. Give it a few days and you'll see some new stuff. For Matt, OSBC was a killer event both in terms of it's success and the overwhelming amount of wo
Today, Novell filed redacted versions of each of these three agreements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of its long-delayed Form 10-K Annual Report. The agreements now available on the SEC web site are as follows: * Business
Linux advocates expected to scour the documents for how the agreement may affect Linux, run afoul of GPLv3
It's been a long week, causing me to be several days late in wishing Pete and Chander a hearty congratulations for closing $8M in Series B funding from Helion (as well as follow on investments from Blue Run and Canaan). I heard a lot of buzz at
I'm sooooo slow on this one. Dave McAllister, one of the founders of Cassatt, is now at Adobe driving its open source efforts. I didn't know. But Dave and I bumped into each other at OSBC this week, and I was ecstatic to find out that Adobe
John Newton, my colleague at Alfresco, has joined ZDNet as a blogger (Check out Newton's Theory, which tracks the evolution of information management), and is off to a bang with this ditty. (John is particularly credible because he largely inven
In yet another sign of the seemingly unstoppable tide of openness, Facebook has opened up its API to outside developers, as The Register reports. What does this mean?he news should allow the network's 23 million claimed monthly visitors to integ
The company is folding its software division to focus entirely on its Web properties like Slashdot and Sourceforge.net