Over the past couple of weeks I've been involved in a college class on how to write a research report. It's certainly not the easiest class, but it's been informative. Being a geek myself, I chose for my research topic, the ever volatile subject of "The best ways to market Linux" (I'll share the research report when I'm done with it).
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A Red Hat Packed With Dynamite
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This quarter was all about constructing the fireworks of the future for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). You don't see much happening at the moment, but all the ingredients for a massive eruption are there.
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Will Bill Gates’ departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
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Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It’s a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft’s longtime leader won’t usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely accelerate what is already a changing attitude in Redmond.
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IT leaders urged to contribute code to open-source projects
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Open source is no longer a novelty, even within the largest corporations. Today, 53% of businesses use open-source software, according to a recent CIO.com survey. However, not enough of those businesses are contributing code back to the open-source community, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the Red Hat Summit.
Read more »Sorry Simon, but you’re still screwing up
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In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, admits that Sun “screwed up” regarding open source. (The picture is of Phipps speaking in Bangalore from the official Sun FOSS.IN blog.) But he isolates the “screw-up” to 2001-2002, when Sun was still a proprietary company.
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The vocabulary of open source development models
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James Dixon has given the thumbs-up to my stretching his Bee Keeper analogy to explain open source development models (which is nice) and in doing so has suggested a new term to help quickly explain the difference between vendor- and community- dominated development projects.
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Open source solution to ‘dirty data’ problem?
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The problem of so-called ‘dirty data’ – data that contains duplications, omissions or other errors – has been a serious issue in corporate IT for many a year. Analyst firm Gartner said in March last year that three-quarters of large enterprises will make little to no progress towards improving data quality until 2010, potentially costing large firms millions of dollars.
Read more »Red Hat's new chief: A pragmatic believer?
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Red Hat's newly appointed chief executive, Jim Whitehurst, has two masters to serve: Wall Street, and the open-source community. Failure to keep either happy will have its consequences, both damaging to his business.
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Nokia grabs control of Symbian - then gives it away
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Nokia has bought up the bits of Symbian it didn't already own and is chucking the OS into an open-source foundation along with the S60 UI layer, accompanied by Sony Ericsson and DoCoMo, who are throwing in UIQ and MOAP(S) respectively.
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Nokia buys Symbian, makes OS open source
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Nokia announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, a UK-based mobile phone operating system developer, for £208 million, and will open the software in a move seen as a response to new rival new, Google's Android.
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Sun: We screwed up on open source
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Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
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Applying the Bee Keeper model beyond captive open source projects
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I’ve been reading The Bee Keeper (also here in PDF), an explanation of the relationship between professional open source software (POSS) vendors and their communities, written by Pentaho’s CTO James Dixon. It is a very elegant explanation of the development/business model employed by the POSS vendors such as MySQL, Pentaho, JBoss and Alfresco.
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HP Contributes Source Code to Open Source Community to Advance Adoption of Linux
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Continuing its efforts to advance customer adoption of Linux, HP today announced the contribution of its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community.
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Software configuration management built on OSS gives Virtusa a competitive advantage
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Virtusa, a Sri Lankan IT services company founded in 1996, was using proprietary version control and collaboration systems to develop software for its clients until founder Kris Canekeratne decided that a custom solution built on open source components was a better fit for internal use. As a result, the company ended up saving millions of dollars on licensing fees and acquisition costs.
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Red Hat chief: We are hard to do business with
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Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners.
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