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Researchers building software they hope will provide a foundation for future secure e-voting systems
IT Managers Journal has a http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22422">good article on the Mule project, Ross Mason's brainchild and the fuel behind Ross and Dave's MuleSource. The article traces the history of Mule's beginn
I actually thought of this idea several years ago, but my work with open source has kept it on the back burner. Mark and I talked about it over dinner on Saturday, and it got me . I also talked about it with Tim O'Reilly once, and he enriched th
Longtime friends and business partners, Adobe and Microsoft are set to fall out of love, as the WSJ reports today. The WSJ focuses on a likely clash between the two companies over digital media (Adobe Media Player, duking it out with Microsoft's
Nearly two months ago, Raven Zachary, a senior analyst with The 451 Group, sent me his research report "Going Open: Software Vendors in Transition." I've been waiting for the chance to read it in full, but it hasn't been easy find
What a perfect day. I'm in London today, and went to the Arsenal vs. Bolton match with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. Mark isn't a big football fan, but he indulged my Arsenal fixation and even treated me like a rational human being,
Matt and SOG are against the Oracle Linux, Mike Olson is for it. I lean with Matt and Stephen. Retelling the untold storyOracle didn't decide to choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided to choose the most popular distribution already in use b
InformationWeek's Charlie Babcock has stumbled on a great truth--the only way to build a business is to have customers. This is something that Matt and I have stressed a number of times. Revenue solves all problems :> Says Rod Johnson of Spri
I'm reading through Dirk Riehle's paper, "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives," finding plenty of interesting discussion points. As my plane is about to take off, I'll just post his think