After Cavium announced that it will acquire MontaVista for $50 million, analysts are now weighing in on the acquisition. Both Jay Lyman of The 451 Group and Bill Weinberg of LinuxPundit view the acquisition as a sign of a consolidation trend in embedded Linux, while Weinberg points to MontaVista missteps that led to sale.
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Another Linux device company acquired
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An up-and-coming networking chip company is buying one of the first companies to commercialize embedded Linux. Cavium has agreed to pay $50M for MontaVista, which has operated independently for ten years.
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Open Source Distribution: Ready to Roll?
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Tech Data, Synnex, Red Hat, Novell and the Open Source Channel Alliance continue to promote open source applications to VARs and solutions providers. But are open source VARs really ready for prime time? Yes and no. Here’s why.
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Bridging Enterprise and Community Collaboration
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Open source software alone is not a magic wand for business. Organizations need to apply open technologies, processes, community participation, and innovative business models in order to get real change and positive results.
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10 of the Best Free Linux CRM Software
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In simple terms, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) represents the way an organisation keeps track with its existing and potential future customers. CRM software offers the means to support these processes. This type of software stores information about customers. But its functionality far extends that of say a traditional database.
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SugarCRM is the latest open source application provider to jump into Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. SugarCRM’s move reinforce’s Microsoft’s commitment to make Azure a widely supported cloud -- including both open and closed source application partners. Here's the scoop.
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Asterisk Partner Wins on Wall Street
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Some critics say Asterisk — the open source IP PBX — is for hackers rather than real telephony customers. EUS Networks begs to differ. The New York-based solutions provider, which works closely with Digium, has launched an Asterisk-based IP telephony solution for a hedge fund client’s trading room floors. Here’s the scoop.
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Storage Vendors Cut Costs With Open Source
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Two data storage vendors are out with new products this week that they claim can save users a bundle over more traditional storage systems.
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Canonical: Profiting From Google Chrome OS?
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Sometimes I need to look before I leap. A few minutes ago I posted a blog pointing out the pros/cons of Google Chrome OS to Canonical and Ubuntu. But I overlooked the biggest fact of all. Google has contracted with Canonical to help develop Chrome OS.
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Qualcomm sees big bucks in China's smartbook market
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It's almost as if Qualcomm's CEO Paul Jacobs took a deep breath and looked the vast expanse that is Mainland China and said to himself; 'There be money in them there hills...'
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21 Grams and a Billion Dollars
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How is it we can know the weight of a person's soul* but not be able to measure the success of a piece of individual FOSS software with the truly compelling metrics needed to satisfy and influence enterprise adopters and governments.
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Chrome's mission: Making Windows obsolete
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What is revolutionary is that Google isn't trying to fight with Microsoft in a mano-a-mano battle for the desktop. ... Instead, Google is saying that, for most users, most of the time, Windows is obsolete. And it's not just Windows: Google is telling us that we don't need Office, Outlook, and all the other day-in, day-out Windows applications, either.
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Insurer slashes $1m from costs with move to Linux
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INSURANCE giant Allianz Australia expects to save more than $1 million by switching from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Linux for key applications.
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Digium Seeks Even More Partners
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Digium is expanding its partner program -- potentially engaging more consulting firms and resellers that want to embrace Asterisk, the open source IP PBX. Digium has been particularly active with a range of partners in recent months.
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Microsoft Azure to capture open source revenue streams
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When Amazon decided to offer MySQL via Amazon RDS, they did so without purchasing MySQL support from Sun. I've confirmed that Microsoft Azure is supporting MySQL on Azure without paying Sun for a MySQL Enterprise subscription
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