Intel's Wind River subsidiary is now the leader in embedded Linux, at least when it comes to revenues, according to the market analysis by VDC Research. Wind River, which was acquired in June by Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) for $884 million, has more than 30 percent of the total market revenue for embedded Linux, VDC found. Rival MontaVista Linux sees another story.
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Missing: Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Desktop PCs
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Rumors are swirling that Dell's U.S. Web site has stopped selling Ubuntu-based desktop Linux PCs. Here's what The VAR Guy knows so far, and the potential implications for Canonical and the desktop Linux movement.
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The Wide-Open Career Landscape of FOSS Tech Support
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Free software may be becoming more attractive to businesses, but even though using the software is free, chances are they'll still need to hire some technical assistance from time to time. Open source tech support experts sometimes need a few different skills than their proprietary counterparts, but their salaries are often quite similar -- if not better.
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MySQL’s Future: Clues At Avnet Compass Conference?
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As Oracle prepares to consume Sun Microsystems (and the open source MySQL database), The VAR Guy wonders: What does the future hold for MySQL’s channel partner strategy? Hmmm. An August 2009 Sun partner conference, called Avnet Compass, could provide some chatter on the topic.
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Who Is the Next Red Hat?
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The open source world is cheering as Red Hat joins the S&P 500. It’s a huge vote of confidence in Red Hat. But is it a vote of confidence in the open source business model? Or more of a sign that Red Hat is miles ahead of its open source rivals?
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Linux Box: Open Source On The Grow
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Ann Arbor's Linux Box, which has spent the last 10 years writing custom open-source software applications for a long list of clients, says its business is growing rapidly enough that it's likely to boost staff by 50 percent to 20 within the next year or two.
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Microsoft makes second GPLv2 release in as many days
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Microsoft has made its second release under the General Public License in two days with software for the open-source online learning system Moodle. Microsoft released the Live Services Plug-in for Moodle under the GPLv2, a move outlined in a blog post by Peter Galli, a community manager for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group.
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Short Term Unsecured Loans- Short Term Emergency Loans- Short Term Loans
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Short term loans are meant for financial help for those people who require urgent money without any obligation. Short Term Loans offers short term bad credit loans, Unsecured loans, short term payday loans, Emergency Loans without any credit check and faxing documents.
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Linux hardware outfit pays off Microsoft
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A COMPANY that makes Linux-based networking gear has made a deal with Microsoft rather than go to court over patents that the Vole says it owns.
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How to Bring Open-Source Software into the Enterprise
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Carol J. Rizzo offers five tips on how to bring open-source software into your organization in a way that maps to your corporate risk factors, making open-source software no more or less of a risk than proprietary software.
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Dell: Chrome is one of many Linux-based OSes
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Although Dell didn't have much to say about Google's Chrome OS announcement last week, the PC maker is apparently looking closely at it. But for Dell--which was not listed as one of the PC makers working with Google on Chrome OS--it is just one of a number of Linux-based operating systems it is evaluating.
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Bending the back office: Open source CRM and ERP
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Open source "alternatives" from SugarCRM, Openbravo, and Compiere have tapped the power of open source development to make customization easy, but the line between community and commercial is quickly crossed
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Ubuntu heads to the clouds
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On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, will be launching Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services.
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Wall Street hammers for sale sign in Novell lawn
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Commercial operating system distributor and software powerhouse wannabe Novell isn't doing the credibility of its long-term business plan any favors by talking about selling part or all of the company to potential suitors.
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PC maker Everex closes up shop in the US
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Everex was one of the first companies to offer a netbook in the US. When Everex introduced its first Cloudbook the only other low cost mini-laptop on the market was the Asus Eee PC 701. And a lot of people were excited about the Everex Cloudbook because it ran a version of Ubuntu Linux.
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