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Yeah, I just can't get my head around the idea that Microsoft really loves open source. I am sure there are many things they appreciate and certain programs that do potential good but really Microsoft loves nothing but Microsoft. Sorry whurley,
Google (likely thanks to the good work Chris DiBona is doing there) continues to build momentum behind its open source activities. Its most recent contributions involve MySQL. I'm not geeky enough to understand their significance, but I apprecia
Curiouser and curiouser.... IBM today announced a technology and marketing partnership that will have IBM selling MySQL's database, among other things:The agreement calls for IBM and MySQL to develop software that will make MySQL compatible with
I never expected this: Eben Moglen, one-time general counsel of the Free Software Foundation and the legal genius behind it, has decided to move on:But this long drafting project, which has displaced most of the rest of my professional life (and, it
Years ago, I remember pontificating that open source would never touch the application market. Narrowly viewing open source through the prism of the day, I said things like this (to John Koenig at IT Managers Journal):To date, enterprise-focused open
As announced today, Sun's resurgence continues apace. It's not much of a pace so far, with sales still slow. But a $67M profit compared to last year's Q3 loss of $217M, is a very big deal. I'm rooting for Sun. I like its aggressiv
Hugh MacLeod is at it again. He asks the question, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires (as if that is the right way to gauge the success of the software)? Never mind that we could ask the same question of proprietar
First, it was Unix to Linux. Same high performance, much lower price, followed by greater CIO value (through innovation, lower pricing, etc. Now, with the announced acquisition of MetaMatrix, Red Hat is moving to the next big migration of data from l
Data management vendor will be integrated into Red Hat's JBoss division
In a surprise move, Intel has announced that it has opened up its Front Side Bus (FSB). I'm not a hardware guy, but I understand that this means that you can plug non-Intel things into an Intel chip. This shows that Intel is willing to take AMD