Does using open source software pay off in a total cost sense when compared to commercial offerings today? Is it worth the usually lower cost, or will an enterprise that casts its lot with FOSS be trapped in a high-risk situation where they can't get support and innovation?
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Open Source and the Cloud: Pay Dirt or Parasite?
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Microsoft to open source: Please don't compete on price!
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Microsoft must really love open source and want to see it succeed. Recently, Microsoft's open-source team lead, Sam Ramji, urged open-source vendors not to compete with Microsoft on price, but instead focus on "value."
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Open source gains while proprietary software declines
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It used to be so easy to be a proprietary-software vendor.
That is, until the open-source neighbors moved in. As noted in a Gartner analysis from late last year, proprietary software is on the wane within enterprises while open source is gaining
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What Oracle-Sun means for Java, open source and RIAs
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Industry analysts weigh in on what the future holds for Sun Microsystems’ software initiatives. Potential anti-trust issues and fee-based Java extensions may lie in the future
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What's Going to Happen with OpenOffice, MySQL, SPARC?
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With today's surprise announcement that Oracle will acquire Sun Microsystems, several questions were raised as to some Sun products, including MySQL, Solaris, and OpenOffice.org. Browsing around the net, there are several viewpoints on the future of these Sun products, and the OpenOffice.org team has even issued a statement itself.
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Openoffice.org Opens Up For Business
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The economic situation is eating into your profits, and the MS Office licenses look more expensive than before. OpenOffice.org is a free office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, slide presentation, drawing program, and database. It’s compatible with practically all operating systems and runs well on old and new computers alike..
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Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems
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We've been debating the merits of a possible IBM-Sun deal for a while now, and even Sun itself seemed to be in the dark as to if it would be a good idea to be bought by IBM. These debates are now all moot: in a suprise move (at least, I didn't see any speculation about it) ORacle has bought Sun Microsystems, at USD 9.50 a share, which equates to a total of 7.4 billion USD.
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JavaScript revision aims for browser cohesion
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ECMA has released the final draft of the Fifth Edition of its scripting language, with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla coming together to make all browsers work with a more open standard. The JSON object encoding format is now supported.
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I agree, 'Open source ain't cheap'
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I originally thought the article from Silicon.com, "Naked CIO: Open source ain't cheap" was written by a troll. Most IT authors realize that the quickest way to get a rise out of readers is to say something negative about one of two topics, Apple computers or open source. This author decided to write about the latter.
Read more »Linux will do well from the recession
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WHILE THE GLOBAL recession may have many down in the dumps, it's apparently good news for Linux, with market research outfit IDC claiming it's going to come out of the crunch a winner.
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Microsoft's Ramji About Microsoft and Open Source
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At the Linux Collaboration Summit, held last week in San Francisco, an interesting panel discussion took place about Linux' position in the wider operating systems market. Included were Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation executive director, Ian Murdock, Sun community and developer vice president, and Sam Ramji, Microsoft platform strategy director.
Read more »IBM Lets Sun Set
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Reports surfaced late this evening that computing giant IBM — which has been in talks for some time to buy Sun Microsystems — has pulled its $7 billion offer to buy the struggling company.
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Novell’s Roadmap Claimed Similar to Sun’s
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A RECENT comprehensive survey showed that, based on votes, Novell is the most likely technology company not to survive this year (in its current form), but Sun Microsystems was a close candidate too.
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How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
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The fact that SGI was acquired by Rackable Systems for the sad sum of $25 million was big news on Wednesday only because most people had forgotten that the company, formerly better known as Silicon Graphics, still existed.
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Novell Downgraded Again
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Second downgrade in less than a week. IT HAS ONLY BEEN half a week since the last Novell downgrade and here comes another.
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