“I had not yet finished my first cup of coffee and I was convinced that the world was ending, but for the saving grace of open source.”
Read more »Open Source 2009: It’s the Economy, Stupid. Or is it?
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Microsoft-friendly Press Thinks Cisco Might Buy Novell
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Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?
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Despite a bevy of questions—looming competition from Oracle, takeover rumors and a weak economy—Red Hat appears to be humming along.
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AVG 8.5 for Linux hands back to open source community
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The security company releases AVG 8.5 for Linux, and hands an element of this package back to the open source community.
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Solution Provider Acquires Open Source Specialist
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Consolidation continues across the IT channel and the open source software market. The latest example involves Sparxent, a mid-market solutions provider, buying XAware, an open source data integration specialist. XAware is the second open source company to get gobbled up this week. And in both cases, venture capitalists seem to be consolidating their financial bets. Here’s the scoop.
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LinuxCertified Announces its Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp.
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LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on May 16th - 17th, 2009 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.
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Sun proxy details its dating game
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You've been curious about the back story when Sun Microsystems, as Intel chief executive officer Paul Otellini succinctly put it, "shopped around the Valley and around the world."
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Profit Sharing for Open Source Games
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Game Jolt (a relatively new Open Source/Freeware game project hosting site) has recently announced their plans for implementing ad revenue sharing for Open Source and Freeware game developers. Most profit sharing schemes have only been available to the Casual/Flash gaming community, until now.
Read more »Open Source Business Intelligence: Small Niche, Growing Channel
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They aren’t household names. But in the world of open source business intelligence (BI) software, Jaspersoft and Pentaho are trading some impressive blows and building out their partner programs. Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy.
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Linux Certification Not Required
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The topic of certification surfaces every so often in technical circles--especially when job seekers face tough job competition. The value of such certifications comes into question versus that of years of experience. For experienced technicians and engineers, the opinion is that experience is the most important for landing a job. In the minds of newbies and wannabes, certifications rule.
Read more »Red Hat throws business rules at IBM and Oracle
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Red Hat's going up against business-rules giants IBM and Oracle with a management system that builds on its popular JBoss application server.
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Will European rules impact open source business models?
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If open source wants to get around European procurement rules and tap the government market there can’t be differences between commercial and community versions of their products.
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Landscape 1.3: Can Canonical, Ubuntu Partners Profit?
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It's another small step for Canonical's Ubuntu business, and a giant leap forward for the company's Landscape management platform. The new Landscape 1.3 release allows IT managers and resellers to remotely administer physical or virtual servers within a corporate network or on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). But this is more than a technology story.
Read more »Managing Ubuntu Linux on the cloud
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It's actually pretty darn easy to run a virtual operating system on a server or on the cloud. The real trick is managing them. That's why I'm excited that Canonical, Ubuntu's Linux commercial backer, recently released Canonical Landscape 1.3.
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Why Canonical Will Succeed Where Most Do Not
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Free software, and especially desktop Linux, is a difficult place to run a successful business since your main product is, of course, free. Canonical, though, looks like it might succeed.
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