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Remember MySQL? Most famous for being part of the LAMP stack, and thus powering the bulk of the innovative work done in the field of ec...

The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...

Yesterday I mentioned Nigel Shadbolt, who has played a leading role in the opening up of government data in the UK. By chance, I've just...

In July 1998, the Frenchman Gaël Duval released his new GNU/Linux distribution called Mandrake-Linux. It was a fork of Red Hat using the KDE...

Recently, there was an interesting rumour circulating that Oracle had a war chest of some $70 billion, and was going on an acquisition spre...

Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...

I love Wikipedia. I love using it, frequently spending many a spare minute (that I don't actually have) simply wandering from one entry ...

If the first era of free software was about the creation of the fully-rounded GNU/Linux operating system, the second saw a generation of key...

Without doubt, one of the most extraordinary developments in recent years has been the rise of Facebook - not just as the most popular socia...

So, it finally happened: We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly ow...

One of the deep ironies of the free software world, which is predicated on freedom, is that it effectively requires people to become experts...

Predictably, the EU's announcement that it would be conducting an "in-depth investigation into proposed takeover of Sun Microsyste...

Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began: Can...

The announcement that one of MySQL's founders, Monty Widenius, was leaving Sun, was generally regarded as a pity, though no huge surpris...

Jeremy Zawodny, ex-Yahoo, currently at Craigslist, is generally regarded as one of the gurus of the MySQL world. His recent thoughts on the ...

If you have a good memory, you might recall a 2003 research paper from Goldman Sachs called “Fear the Penguin”.... On Open Enterprise blog .

When Sun announced at the beginning of this year that it was buying MySQL for the not inconsiderable sum of a billion dollars, the question ...

One thing that has always struck me in the free software world is the power of example. Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there ...

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