11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead
Read more »Red Hat: More Customer Involvement with Community Needed
Businesses need to share more of the software written for internal use if the open-source community is to reach its full potential.
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IBM chips into EnterpriseDB love fund
IBM is putting some of its financial muscle behind the business trying to rival Sun Microsystems' MySQL, pushing PostgreSQL.
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What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
News that IBM is among the new investors in EnterpriseDB has already been remarked upon by our own Matt Asay.
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Subscriptions to Surge for Open-Source Licensing
One out of five applications will be licensed by subscription within five years, respondents said, thanks to goodies such as remote management, security monitoring and more.
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Should Open Source Projects Accept VC Backing?
According to a talk by Benchmark Capital's Rob Bearden at this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), the nature of open source business models are changing. He says open source companies should strive to become the "enterprise standard" in their market space in order to effectively monetize their commodities.
Read more »Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings
Anyone under the delusion that you can't make money from open source and Linux should have been on Red Hat's 2008 fiscal year earnings call on March 27.
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15 Open-Source Business Influencers
This is a slide show that runs through the 15 most influential people of the FOSS business world according to eweek.com. There are brief bios given for each. No RMS though... I guess he doesn't count as influencing business or maybe it's because he isn't a businessman. Or maybe it's because it's "Open Source business influencers" not "free software business influencers".
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Managed Services: Built On Open Source?
Ben Yarbrough has seen it. Bob Walters has seen it. And now, hundreds of managed service providers are starting to see it. What exactly is “it”? The simple answer: The convergence of open source with managed services.
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Open Source Databases: Shallow But Widespread
With the rare exception, most of the open source database vendors have declined to storm the castle, believing - correctly - that they were not in a position to compete effectively in such markets.
Read more »How To Install The Openbravo ERP On Debian Etch
This document describes how to set up Openbravo ERP (enterprise management system) on Debian Etch. Taken from the Openbravo page: "Openbravo is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the SME (small to midsize firm).
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Another Good Reason To Quit Feeding Microsoft's Favorite Cash Cow
If you put just one open-source software package to work in your small or medium-sized business, I can tell you exactly where to begin. And as much as I like Linux, I actually have something else in mind for you.
Read more »Venture firms pour $200 million into open source
This stat seems impressive, considering all of the bad economic news recently, but the story points out that relatively little money is going to new open-source-based companies.
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Internet Explorer: A Browser Breaks
"IE is vulnerable to aggressive competition right now and likely still will be through early 2009. Only Mozilla's unwillingness to act—to make Firefox deployments easier—would prevent the browser from making even greater enterprise gains against Internet Explorer..."
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