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As I noted in my post “Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies?", one of the reasons there are no large pure-play open source compa...

Wow, this is cool: At first glance it’s hard to see how the open-source software framework Hadoop, which was developed for analyzing large ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the launch of the open source company Cloudera. It's always hard to tell whether startups will flourish, but am...

Creating a business around free software is hardly a new idea: Cygnus Solutions, based around Stallman's GCC, was set up in 1989. But he...

One of the hot areas in 2008 was cloud computing, and 2009 looks likely to be a year that is equally occupied with the subject. But cloud co...

Here are two small, but significant moves by Microsoft.... On Open Enterprise blog .

Just one more reason why the Microsoft-Yahoo merger, if it happens, will be hell: Yahoo is following in Google’s footsteps again in search....

In Redmond Magazine (no, really.)

It used to be said that open source software does not scale - a reflection of both its immaturity at the time, and of the pious hopes of the...

Now why on earth would Yahoo be doing this ? Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that it will be the first in th...