MySQL leader Marten Mickos tries to calm Linux leaders' fears of MySQL abandoning the Linux market, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols.
Read more »Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?
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Red Hat drops consumer Linux desktop
"Red Hat's desktop software unit has revealed it won't be launching desktop Linux for the consumer market any time soon."
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MySQL and "commercial extensions:" Core, complements, and semantics
MySQL has placed itself in the middle of a rising furor over its allegedly diminished commitment to open source. To be fair, it has only itself to blame.
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Red Hat skips consumer Linux desktop
Red Hat has no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market, but will continue to place its bets on a desktop for commercial markets.
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Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?
For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing a major update to his business' flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now Sun Microsystems' senior vice president for databases, didn't look comfortable.
Read more »Open Solutions Alliance looking for momentum boost
The Open Solutions Alliance is hoping to shake off some growing pains as it moves through its second year, according to its president, Dominic Sartorio.
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Jealousy? Novell, Red Hat, and the Linux Desktop
Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It’s not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They’re all doing great with consumer Linux desktops.
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Microsoft Will Try to Break the Web at All Costs, Using XAML
A couple of days ago we discussed Novell’s Moonlight and explained why it assists Microsoft’s fight against Adobe, Google, GNU/Linux, Ajax and many other rivals (or rival technologies employed by those rivals).
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Microsoft, Novell stressing China's Linux market
Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp., trying to expand the reach of their unusual alliance, say they plan to put a bigger emphasis on the Chinese market. The companies say they will make an extra investment to sell more support subscriptions for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system in China.
Read more »A case study: Video Ezy and Microsoft myths about open source lead to flawed network
The Redmond giant’s PR spin has gone into overdrive to warn budding potentials away from the evils of Linux and open source. The messages are consistent: Linux may be free, but there’s a catch; it has a higher total cost of ownership, a lower return on investment, less support and is a less sound platform. I declare bunkum.
Read more »SugarCRM CEO John Roberts tells us how his company developed (video)
SugarCRM Inc. was one of the first application-specific open source companies. It has gone from three employees to over 160 between 2004 and 2008. SugarCRM has taken some heat over its dual-licensing system. Roberts explains why this licensing scheme is a financial necessity for the company, and offers some excellent advice for people who want to start their own open source-based companies.
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Vyatta Scaling Linux Up For Networks Big and Small
Linux software router vendor rolls out new release with an aim to open up both service provider and enterprise networks.
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Novell expands Microsoft alliance with China deal
Linux software vendor Novell Inc. of Waltham is expanding its alliance with Microsoft Corp. into China, in a bid to encourage Chinese companies to start paying for the software they use to run their businesses.
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Ubuntu Linux takes on enterprise server market with new OS
With its release today of its Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition, Linux vendor Ubuntu is firmly aiming its long-awaited, enterprise-ready server operating system at the world of business computing.
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Unlocking The Future: Open Source Opportunities In Custom Systems
Custom system builders are among the specialists able to embrace open source as a new prospect for success. Linux's emergence as a completely viable open source operating system has attracted many start-ups on a budget, in addition to a growing recognition by proprietary vendors (and their enterprise and SMB clients) of the benefits of open solutions.
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