I just got this data from Alfresco's chief marketing officer, Ian Howells, and it shows Ubuntu exceeding Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the first time in Alfresco's community
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Red Hat Readies Identity, Policy, Audit Offering
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While the name "Netscape" is now mostly dead, its progeny continue to survive and develop. Many are familiar with Mozilla's efforts on the browser side, but Netscape also had another business -- a directory server business now run and expanded upon by Linux vendor Red Hat.
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Wikidot.com is now Open Source!
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A great wiki engine behind Wikidot.com is now free software as Wikidot Inc owners: Pieter Hintjens and Piotr Frąckowiak, released the code on AGPLv3 license just today. This is great news for the Internet community as Wikidot is one of the most advanced wiki engines out there, leaving MediaWiki and TWiki far behind.
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Data Integrator XAware Raises $7.4M for Open Source Push
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"The open source model gives us a way to reach thousands of customers we couldn't have afforded to reach any other way," XAware CEO Tim Harvey said. "We want to get as many people as possible using the software so they can come back and buy service and support from us." XAware moved in November to the open source model for its data integration software.
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Sun and MySQL: Honeymoon's Over Already?
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There are plenty of other things that also need fixing in MySQL, according to a blog posting by Jeremy Cole, who formerly used the database at Yahoo and is now a MySQL consultant at Proven Scaling. "There are a lot of areas where MySQL has been lacking for a long time, and the power users have been either crying in their beer or doing the work themselves," Cole wrote.
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Red Hat Seeks Chinese Growth
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Leading open-source distributor Red Hat Inc, which is shifting its focus to greater China, expects its revenue in the region to grow by 50 percent in the next fiscal year on healthy demand from enterprise clients.
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Burning questions about Asterisk open source PBX platform
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The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users as well as businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more attractive to potential users.
Here are a few questions and answers to help get grounded in Asterisk.
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US v Microsoft: who really won?
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Before he became Mother Teresa, Bill Gates was Darth Vader. As captain of the Evil Empire, he and his minions dominated PC operating systems, vanquishing all rivals. In May of 1998, the US Department of Justice struck back.
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Novell woos Red Hat developers
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Novell has extended a set of development tools so they can be used to write applications and other software for rival Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
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HP tells enterprises fear the source
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The Hewlett-Packard open source strategy is becoming clear. Fear the source. I’m certain HP officials will disagree with that. But when your press release is headlined, ” HP Promotes Open Source Software Governance with New Initiative,” there is no other conclusion to draw.
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The story behind HP's FOSSology open-source tools
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I recently spent some time talking with Christine Martino, Hewlett-Packard's vice president of Linux and open source, about HP's plans to provide services around open-source software. That HP is doing this is now old news (the news broke this week). But the truly interesting thing in this is HP itself.
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Volume: Money or Misdirection?
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In the wake of the billion dollar valuation of MySQL, a number of intelligent folks have been crunching the estimated numbers in search of an equation that makes sense in the context of the market economics and come up wanting (as predicted). Jeff Gould states it most clearly, asking:
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Can LoopFuse crack the open source conversion conundrum?
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The merits of the open source distribution model in generating sales leads have been well documented but it’s always good to see statistics that back up the theory. I recently talked with a new open source software vendor (who will remain nameless, although in the interests of avoiding confusion I should state it was not LoopFuse) that shared with me some statistics about its first year distributing open source code and the comparative cost of lead generation using the proprietary model.
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Bear Mistake No. 1: Never sleep on Red Hat Inc.
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Red Hat, Inc. (Public, NYSE:RHT) shares just like everything else (including Apple (AAPL)) have been hurt by the recent Bear trends. The problems facing the market are endless and one of my favorite companies and stock has taken a big beating, right down to $1 above their 52-week low. The Company you ask? Linux King, Red Hat Inc.
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Open Source Business Practices and Conversion Rate Myths
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When JBoss was acquired by Red Hat, the publicly acknowledged conversion rates were 3% (JBoss) and 10% (Red Hat). People start making assumptions about business models based on driving downloads and user community size. And that's where the problem starts.
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