Presens Technologies is the newest "Advanced Business Partner" to Red Hat, and will provide software, hardware and application services using Red Hat's open-source platforms to clients, according to an announcement.
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Would you do Open Source Marketing for Microsoft?
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Microsoft’s partners team through its NXT initiative launched a campaign focused on open source ISVs in 2007 in conjunction with the Open Source Business Conference. The campaign is designed to encourage ISVs to explore how best to deliver their solutions to customers in the Microsoft world, recognizing that many high profile open source projects have 30%-50% of their installed base in the Windows world. The Microsoft program works through partners to assist ISVs.
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California firm buys Utah-based Linux
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A Silicon Valley company has bought the assets of Utah supercomputer maker Linux Networx Inc. for an undisclosed amount of stock. Silicon Graphics Inc. acquired key Linux Networx software, patents, technology and expertise, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SGI said Thursday. It isn't clear what will happen to Linux Networx. David Morton, chief technology officer of the Bluffdale-based company, declined to comment.
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Commercial Ubuntu
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I just read a post by Bruce Byfield, where he raises an interesting question: after the fact that Canonical will try and offer commercial software from a specific repository, would anyone use it? And if not, could it alienate other users of Ubuntu from using the distribution at all?
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Sun Confirms Inflexability & Community Disregard
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On Monday OGB Chairman Rich Teer posted Sun's answer (crafted by Mr Bill Franklin with the assistance of Mr. Simon Phipps) to the OGB's request for clarification regarding the highly controversial decision to name Project Indiana "OpenSolaris". The issue is highly mixed, on one hand you have Sun Microsystems looking for a way to monetize OpenSolaris, on the other hand they are redefining the term "OpenSolaris", around which everything is based, without a single regard for the community. Here's the full statement
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Red Hat Needs to Get Red Hot to Achieve Goals
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Expanding on a plan it announced in November 2007 by which Red Hat (RHT) said it would capture 50% of the operating system market by 2015, the company announced on February 13 that it intends to also capture “50% of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015.”
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Open source and the future of vendor-free IT
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In reading through IDC's excellent report, "2007 Industry Adoption of Open Source Software, Part 2: Project Adoption," analyst Matt Lawton stumbles across an intriguing observation in open-source software adoption. He apparently believes it is a weakness of the current open-source landscape, but I believe it is a strength. The observation? That IT departments do most of the services around open source, rather than third-party consulting companies.
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Sun Snags Innotek -- Should I Wince?
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Sun just made another open source acquisition: Innotek, the makers of the open source VirtualBox virtual machine application. Unlike MySQL, though, this is one open source acquisition that hits home for me in a major way.
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Will open source be a victim in the Dot Bomb 2.0?
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In some ways Dot Bomb 2.0 has already begun. Google is down 27% since the start of the year. Once solid niches like consumer health are starting to falter.
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Is counting open source code contributions really useful?
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If you're active in the open source world, Ohloh probably knows you. The Bellevue, Wash., software company has a database of some 70,000 developers working on nearly 11,000 of the world's major open source projects.
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AMD Joins Open Source With Framewave
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Chipmaker starts its own open source effort to increase application performance. Will this be a counterweight to Intel?
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Dell Ubuntu Systems Launching in Canada and Latin America
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We're introducing Ubuntu 7.10-based Dell systems in Canada and Latin America. Beyond that, we're introducing the Inspiron 1525n to customers in the United States. Like Daniel mentioned earlier this week, the 1525n is already available to customers in the U.K., Spain, France and Germany. All of these systems will include built-in DVD playback capability.
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Choose Your Linux and Open Source Partner Carefully
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More than any other technology before, the Open Source and Linux world is one where the choice of systems integrator to implement your solution is a difficult one to get right.
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On the Extraction of Curve Skeletons using Gradient Vector Flow
500 million Firefox downloads
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Firefox just reached 500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely phenomenal milestone for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number means.
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