When I first found out about open source software, I felt the sky was the limit — with the source code, I could do anything now! But after working on open source ERP for the last seven years, I’ve come to realize that customizing software, even open source software, should not be taken lightly.
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Red Hat CEO Says Innovation Trumps Cost Savings
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In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software.
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Novell Linux Appliances Boost Ingres over MySQL
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Novell partners with database vendor Ingres to make it easier to build and deploy software appliances -- but what about MySQL?
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IBM Adopts Red Hat's Virtualization Technologies for Cloud Computing
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As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments.
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Allianz CIO 'lost hair' over Linux upgrade
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Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe.
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The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source
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Over the last couple of years a number of different open source business strategies have evolved. According to the 451 Group, it's an evolution that includes the broader adoption and usage of open source overall by both open source and proprietary software vendors.
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Novell Staff Shrank by ~10% and Hovsepian Allegedly Plays Hard to Get With Elliott Associates
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It's rutting season for Novell's Ron Hovsepian and Elliott Associates' Singer as the company keeps diminishing but wants to be valued more generously
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credativ pre-paid Open Source Support Card leads the market
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Today, credativ is launching its unique pre-paid Open Source Support Card. Businesses using Linux distributions such as Debian and CentOS stand to benefit from expert support without being tied into a contract, in contrast to other commercial Linux support vendors.
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Novell Says Elliott Offer "Inadequate" - It's "business as usual"
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"President and CEO, Novell has put out a statement that it has considered the Elliott Management offer but finds it "inadequate". It's "business as usual at Novell". Here's the press release.
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Ryan Szrama, From The Commerce Guys, On Drupal-Based E-Commerce
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The annual DrupalCon conference is coming up, April 19th to 21st at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Drupal, of course, is the increasingly popular open source content management system founded by Dries Buytaert, and OStatic itself runs on the platform.
Read more »VMware’s Parent Company Promotes Microsoft Exchange, So What About Zimbra?
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Tough situation for F/OSS companies that were devoured by the ex-Sofies who run VMware after EMC had intervened
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Former MySQL CEO to become Eucalyptus Systems CEO
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Marten Mickos, former MySQL AB CEO and Senior Vice President of the database group at Sun Microsystems, has been named as the chief executive officer for Eucalyptus Systems, replacing Woody Rollins. Rollins moves to the company's CFO position
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Red Hat, Novell: Reading the Stock Market Tea Leaves
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Spring has sprung, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the blooming of flowers, the chirps of baby birds, and "Novell's Board of Directors reject[ing] Elliott Associates' unsolicited, conditional proposal as inadequate."
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The Linux of stock markets
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Today's news that TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange) has moved to Red Hat's RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) as the operating platform for its next-generation "Arrowhead" trading system shouldn't come as a surprise. Linux has become the smart stock market's operating system of choice.
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Paul Singer Still Goes After Novell
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The "vulture fund" responds to Novell's first rejection of a takeover, which still leaves room for more offers to be made
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