OpenLogic just announced that it had a good 2007. The company tripled its number of customers, and now counts three of the Fortune 10 as companies, with many more in the Fortune 500. Good for them. What is perhaps less appealing about the company's success is that it may be achieving its success at the expense of the projects that make it possible in the first place.
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Linux-based Unison server to challenge Microsoft Unified Communications Platform
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A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft.
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Sun's Source Code Donation Met With Skepticism
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Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities to spur more cost-effective technologies and help solve digital archive and preservation challenges facing enterprises.
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How big a threat is good Microsoft?
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One point was made to me repeatedly while covering the HIMSS show for ZDNet Healthcare this week. All this “good Microsoft” stuff about supporting open source, abut placing code on Codeplex, and about keeping open source projects “in the loop” regarding format changes, is no head fake.
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Open source makes a healthy site for healthy eaters
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TheDailyPlate.com (TDP) is a free, online eating journal with a lot of features that make it useful for the health conscious. The site is developed completely in PHP on MySQL, Apache, and Linux. LAMP was a natural choice, the founders say, because so many other Internet companies have experienced success with the now-ubiquitous platform.
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Linux for the SMB market: slow? steady? or both?
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Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketplace. SMBs are growing, and represent a segment of the IT market that has not been fully exploited by many, including open source software vendors that boasted early successes with large enterprises.
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Novell Grows Its Linux Business
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So far, so good for Novell. For its first-quarter 2008 results, Novell reported growing income and revenues with a strong year-over-year showing from its Linux platform business. With Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 set to enter the market, Novell's CEO is optimistic that the company can continue to grow its business even further.
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A Perception of Lack of Support for Open Source Should Not Stop Adoption of Linux
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I have written several posts about Linux and whether it is ready for the solo and small law office, listing the pros and cons as I have seen them. However, there is one “con” that people have in their minds when they think of Linux that should not be there: that Open Source Software (OSS) does not have the support that commercial products do. This has contributed somewhat to a resistance to adopt Linux in the business world. The shame of it is, it is a false perception.
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Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux
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Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.
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The Rise and Rise of Mozilla
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One of the most interesting developments in recent years has been the rise of Mozilla. Not Mozilla the browser, aka Firefox, which has become a serious challenger to Internet Explorer: that's old hat. Less well known is the way that Mozilla the organisation has turned from a rather desperate and leaky lifeboat for the open-sourced Netscape Navigator code into a mighty battleship blasting hither and thither against outposts of proprietary software.
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Microsoft Vs. Open Source In the SaaS Market
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Yes, Microsoft is finally polishing its Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy. In addition to playing catch-up against entrenched SaaS companies like Salesforce.com, Microsoft must also deal with a growing number of open source providers — from SugarCRM to MySQL and Sun — that have jumped on the SaaS bandwagon.
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Sun Hires Python Experts
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The company is beefing up its support for the dynamic language with the hiring of two leading Python developers.
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Paylocity saves money developing on Linux
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Paylocity provides payroll and human resources outsourcing services for companies that don't want the burden of performing those functions in house. Launched in 1997, is is the brainchild of founder Steve Sarowitz, who was previously a salesperson for other payroll companies.
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So you want to start a successful open source business?
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So, today was the OSIA Melbourne meeting. It was most fun. Met lots of people, had interesting conversations.
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Dstat - Versatile resource statistics tool
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versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.
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