An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company? It can’t. In fact I would claim that Oracle, the company, is quite the opposite of “wise” or “prophetic”.
Read more »Could Oracle fracture open source community?
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Beleaguered Novell Buoyed by VMware Linux Deal
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Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.
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Adopting Enterprise Open Source Software
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Nagios sent me a reminder yesterday, which I finally got around to reading today, to update to the latest version of Nagios Core, 3.2.2. We were running 3.2.0, so we were a couple versions behind, so after browsing through the list of fixed bugs I thought it would be good to go ahead and upgrade. I had a meeting in fifteen minutes, and Nagios was actively monitoring servers in production.
Read more »Oracle Squelches Open Source Spirit
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Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell.
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“Only Idiots Want to Pay for Novell”
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Strong words from Red Hat's Wildeboer, who criticises people's willingness to pay Microsoft for GNU/Linux
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Open-Xchange Releases Free Migration Tool For Microsoft Outlook Users
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Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, announced the availability of data migration tools for users of Microsoft Outlook to easily move e-mails, contacts, appointments and tasks to Open-Xchange Server.
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Red Hat Now Worth Almost 3.5 Times What Novell is Worth
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A look at Novell's decreasing relevance wrt to Red Hat and other companies that actually produce and distribute Free software, not proprietary software
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Red Hat in talks to buy JBoss cloud fluffer Makara
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Red Hat is in talks to buy a JBoss cloud provisioning startup called Makara, according to a source familiar with the matter. Makara – a Red Hat JBoss partner – produces a portal enabling IT teams to set up, provision, and administer public Amazon and private Xen and VMware clouds.
Read more »Is Your Company Afraid of Linux? (3 OF 3)
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Fear #4 (Support!): This is where Linux shines. Because of the open nature of the Linux community it is considered to be the most widely supported platform and the most inexpensive.
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Project management the open source way
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Track projects and collaborate efficiently within an easy-to-use open source project management application called Collabtive. Resident collaboration expert, Dmitri Popov, shows you how to get started…
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Increased Clientele for Red Hat
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A leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat Inc. continues to support organizations with a varied business demand in the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. IT based organizations are aggressively adopting Red Hat’s open solutions and Virtualization technology to grow their businesses.
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Novell Disappoints as Ownership Concerns Continue
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Enterprise software vendor Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) fell short of its guidance for the third fiscal quarter of 2010, missing its financial projections with both revenues and income declining.
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Red Hat Board Gets Military Leadership
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The managing board of enterprise open-source software company Red Hat has elected a retired U.S. Army officer, General Henry Hugh Shelton, to serve as chairman, the company announced Monday. Shelton takes the place of Matthew Szulik, who was the former CEO of Red Hat.
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Takeover of Novell Seen as “Less Likely” by S&P Analyst
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Standard & Poor’s analyst Jim Yin believes that Novell is less likely than before to sell itself, but he does not rule out this possibility
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Meet Novell's new best friend: VMware
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If you recall, Novell's former best friend for SUSE Linux was Microsoft. Microsoft and Novell have a partnership where the two parties had certificates that indemnified SUSE users from any intellectual property liability. In addition, Microsoft officially recommended SUSE Linux Enterprise for hybrid Windows/Linux shops.
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