The explanation of why zero pure play open source vendors have hit the one billion dollar revenue mark has never seemed, to me, particularly complicated. The economics of open source are fundamentally differentiated from the closed source models that preceded it.
Read more »The Economics of Open Source: Why the Billion Dollar Barrier is Irrelevant
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The Open Invention Network launches Associate Member programme
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The Open Invention Network has announced the launch of a new Associate Member programme. The first Associate Member is Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system
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Small Business: How Red Hat Will Attack Microsoft Stronghold
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At first glance, Microsoft’s software portfolio — Windows, Office, Small Business Server and Exchange — still dominates the small business market. But Red Hat CEO Jim Whiteshurst says his company has found a back door into the small business market. Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn’t really involve desktop Linux.
Read more »Red Hat launches new customer portal
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Enterprise Linux specialist Red Hat has announced the launch of a new global customer portal that provides customers with access to support and downloads for its Linux platform, middleware, virtualisation and cloud solutions
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Virgin America Runs Massive Workloads on Linux
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Virgin America's Ravi Simhambhatla is delivering a keynote at this year's LinuxCon North America. He will be giving us the CIO view on how to sell the value of open source internally when cost isn't the only driving factor.
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Holding Your Linux Consultant Accountable
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Beyond the actual service of solving your technology issues immediately, Linux consultants should do two extra things that provide you with the best return for your investment. These two issues make the difference for your company in the long run.
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TransferSummit - How open changes everything
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Inspired by the success of open source products such as the Apache web server and the Firefox browser, many multinational companies have made ‘open innovation’ - the sharing of the risks and rewards of the product development process with partners - a top strategic priority
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Red Hat boosts revenue and profit
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American Linux distributor Red Hat has announced its first quarter financial results, which show an increase in total revenue and subscription revenue by 20 per cent over same quarter last year
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Novell Exodus: More Managers Escape the Company
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Novell vice president and also a director move on to other companies; Novell's possession of UNIX continues to raise questions
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Report: Mandriva finds investors
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Reports quote the Mandriva CEO as saying that the company has managed to organise investment and that the community should not have concerns. The names of the investors have not been disclosed
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Is LGP Going The Way Of Loki Software?
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Born out of the demise of Loki Software in 2001 was Linux Game Publishing, but now a decade later the fate of LGP is not looking good for the company that has ported about two dozen game titles to Linux.
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Linux, the Numbers
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A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out - from a financial perspective, for our studio - “is it worth porting games to Linux?”
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Linux Game Publishing: "We Are Very Much Alive"
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Over the night on Phoronix an article was published entitled Is LGP Going The Way Of Loki Software? Linux Game Publishing has been around since 2001 when Loki Software had collapsed, but in recent months LGP has been eerily quiet, has stopped responding to inquiries from customers and other Linux gamers, and their only announced game ports are titles they began working on back in 2002 and 2003.
Read more »Bergelt calls Canonical membership part of new OIN strategy
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To critics like Florian Mueller of FossPatents, all this sounds more like Skull & Bones than Semper Fi. “Canonical is known for being a strategic partner of IBM, and since IBM is the most influential force behind the OIN, that’s probably the reason why its membership status was upgraded,” he wrote me.
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Profiting from open source -- 8 business models
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So you want to make a small fortune in open source software? It's simple, the joke goes: Just start with a large fortune. The open source revolution began at least two decades ago, but businesses and programmers are still struggling to understand the best way to share wonderful code and pay the mortgage.
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