So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: "Nothing."
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eBox Bundles Network Services in a Friendly Package
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"A very complex technology to make network management simple." That's what the developers of the eBox platform promise small and medium sized organizations, and it's certainly an attractive idea.
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Analyst: Red Hat remains 'a beacon of light'
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When the subject is analysis of Red Hat, the world follows closely what analyst Katherine Egbert has to say. And she remains red hot about Red Hat.
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Numbers - Microsoft Stock Prices Part 1
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Another article in a series about how Microsoft's financial status will affect the Free Software community.
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London Paper cuts costs by 66% with open source website
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The London Paper has switched to an open source content management system as part of a major overhaul of its website.
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Dell is sticking with Ubuntu
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I really don't know how this rumor got started, but there are people talking about Dell no longer shipping Ubuntu-powered PCs. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Red Hat: From manic acquisitions to focused execution
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Red Hat is at the top of its game right now, delivering quarter after quarter of impressive performance despite (or, perhaps, because of) a global recession. But it wasn't always thus. Despite a meteoric initial public offering in 1999, Red Hat spent years fumbling about for a winning game plan, dabbling in technologies that took it far beyond its core competence in operating systems.
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101 Open Source Apps for Enterprises
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The scent of money in the air probably also explains why there are so many open source enterprise applications available. In other categories, like open source browsers, for instance, you'll struggle to find half a dozen good choices. To help you get started on the process, here are 101 open source enterprise applications.
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SUSE 11 takes off faster than 10
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Novell kicked out its SUSE Linux 11 release at the end of March, so it's now time to ask how it's doing. The answer: better than SUSE Linux 10.
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Interview with Daniel Chalef of KnowledgeTree
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I recently installed KnowledgeTree for a small office that needed a piece of document management software. Document management is one of those things: you don't think you need one until you actually see one. I noticed that it's free software, financed by private extensions. O got curious and managed to talk to Daniel Chalef, the CEO of KnowledgeTree.
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Using Free Applications To Power Your Business
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Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. This means there is now a charge for customer assistance on per-incident basis. For many, this can result in a significant rise in business operational costs.
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Is Red Hat really an Open Source company ?
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This question keeps cropping up every once in a while on different LUG lists where I lurk. It is a fairly established fact now in the FOSS world (or for that matter in the software world) that businesses can be both Open Source as well as commercial (ie: for profit). However...
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Why Tech Needs to Keep an Eye on Free
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Every company needs to learn how to compete with free, from Gilette and the makers of Jello, to software giant Microsoft.
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FOSS: First Generation is Costly
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There is so much new stuff being brought out right now, everything from Google Wave to some very interesting ubunet ubuntu karmic integrations. What is interesting is how costly the first iteration of any idea is, it seems that before an idea is really solid or cohesive you need to spend a lot of time just thinking about what your trying to achieve.
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At first glance, Canonical is an operating system company - built around Ubuntu Linux. But take a closer look at Canonical's moves during the first half of 2009, and you'll find the company has increasingly bet its revenue stream on cloud, online and consulting/support services. Here's some perspective.
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