IBM’s Steve Mills talks about Google as an IBM customer, growth in China, software-as-a-service, and Microsoft
Read more »IBM-Google partnership merges best features of Internet and corporate computing, IBM exec says
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Open Source Gets a Wall Street Boost
The commoditization of equity trades is giving Web 2.0 open-source investment platforms a chance to win converts.
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Why Novell should become the center of the open source .NET universe
My previous post about Novell looking to make acquisitions got me thinking about what the company could do to become relevant again. The best I can come up with is that Novell should become the dominant force in the open source .NET universe.
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Open Source Frees Up Business Intelligence
The use of open source environments for enterprise software projects is growing at an unprecedented rate, with notable peaks of interest among financial services and public sector organizations. Indeed, the adoption of open source software is growing at a great clip, with worldwide revenue from standalone open source software having reached $1.8 billion in 2006, according to recent calculations from IDC. That figure is expected to reach $5.8 billion by 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent. As a result, IDC is calling open source "the most significant, all-encompassing, and long-term trend that the software industry has seen since the early 1980s."
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New Red Hat boss defines company's future
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst brings expertise in running a large company to software vendor poised for its next grow spurt
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Should IBM Release SOM/DSOM as open source?
Could the open-source community use a library packaging technology that enables languages to share class libraries regardless of the language an application was written in? Probably, especially since the code to accomplish that goal was written (and shelved) more than ten years ago. All it takes to make that code available is to ask IBM to release SOM and DSOM as open-source.
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Microsoft Lawyers Map Out the Bid for Yahoo
There's no deal yet. But when Robert Lande picked up the phone last Tuesday, Microsoft Corp.'s lawyer Charles "Rick" Rule was on the line, making a pitch.
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Open Source vs. Business
Some say that paid services belittle the efforts to facilitate free and open sharing of source code. Can profitable businesses and open source really coexist?
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The Volunteer Economy
How much are Yahoo's volunteers worth? And how much less will Yahoo be worth if Microsoft scares them away? That's the question that should be at the center of talk about Yahoo's value — both as an acquisition for Microsoft and as good company to work for with.
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SugarCRM: Doubling Revenues Through Software as a Service?
Call it the ultimate double play: Open source coupled with software as a service (SaaS). Using that formula, SugarCRM is striving to double its size this year, asserts CEO John Roberts.
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This new job really makes me think... Windows vs Linux
Well. I started my new job today. Really great first day, I will say. They had me fill out the normal required paperwork and agreements for working in a law office, and that sort of thing... Then they set me up with administrative privileges on the network and I began to beta test some software. They have Virtual Server 2005 setup, so I can test the software on Win98, 2000, XP, and Vista through Internet Explorer using an extension of remote desktop. This got me thinking a lot... Windows... or Linux?
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From counterculture flag to corporate gold star
CIOs love Linux, but what does your Linux-using reputation say about you as an employee? IT execs say it shows a kind of problem-solving skill they're looking for.
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Open Source breaking barriers
Besides the apparent commercial benefits of adapting open source approach, technology developers also appreciate the possibility of altering the software to suit their architecture
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Sun lays its open source virtualization cards on the table
News just in is that Sun is buying innotek, the open source virtualization player whose VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side...
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Red Hat aiming to grow JBoss at twice the rate of RHEL
I saw that Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO, is gunning for $1 billion in revenue within the next three years. Given that Red Hat did $400 million in 2007, up from $278 million in 2006, this is perhaps not all that surprising of a goal.
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