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23 April 2009
Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?
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Three years ago, Tom Foremski wrote an interesting piece called “Adapt or die--the choice facing the open source movement“, which began: Can...
22 April 2009
A Timeline of Microsoft Hurt
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I've often written about particular instances where Microsoft has bullied competitors; it's a pretty sorry tale. But that story bec...
15 January 2009
IBM the Schizophrenic
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Bad IBM : IBM today announced that it earned 4,186 U.S. patents in 2008, becoming the first company ever to earn more than 4,000 U.S. patent...
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05 December 2008
Ingres Paints a Rosy Picture
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If you have a good memory, you might recall a 2003 research paper from Goldman Sachs called “Fear the Penguin”.... On Open Enterprise blog .
07 August 2008
Cloud Computing on a Stick
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On Open Enterprise blog .
18 December 2007
Are Closed Source Databases Doomed?
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On Open Enterprise blog .
17 December 2007
Copping a Load of COPU
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As I've lamented before, open source usage in China is hard for us outside to gauge. Even the open source structures there are difficul...
31 October 2007
Google's OpenSocial
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Or should that be Open Social? - That's what a certain Marc Andreessen (now, where have I heard that name before ?) calls it , and he s...
23 October 2007
Oracle Users (Heart) MySQL
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The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) recently surveyed their members about open source and has now published their findings. A few high...
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10 October 2007
PHP, Oracle and Cognitive Dissonance
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It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between Larry "Ninja" Ellison's personal plaything, aka Oracle, and the hacker...
19 March 2007
Which Future for Adobe's Apollo?
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I have mixed feelings about Adobe's new Apollo : Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web deve...
22 December 2006
Red Letter Day for Red Hat
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Time to throw those hats in the air, methinks : Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced fin...
29 October 2006
Larry's Unbreakable Kite
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What do you want if you are worth $18 billion and have the third-largest motor yacht in the world? Simple: revenge. Oracle's Unbreaka...
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04 September 2006
On the Marc
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This isn't exactly hot news, and it's been blogged elsewhere , but I don't feel a blog called "open..." would be compl...
17 April 2006
Does Larry's Linux Stack Up?
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The tantalising story in the FT that Oracle is ruminating upon acquiring one of the main GNU/Linux distributions - well, Novell - is bound...
10 February 2006
Scrying an Oracle
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This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...
03 February 2006
Open Source's Best-Kept Secret
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Ajax is short for Asynchronous Javascript + XML; it enables a Web page to be changed in the browser on the fly, without needing to refer bac...
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