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Nearly three years ago, I wrote an article exploring why at that time there were no billion-dollar companies (since then, Red Hat has fin...

Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there...

Recently, there was some justified excitement that Red Hat had finally done it, and turned in annual sales of over $1 billion . A couple o...

In the early days of companies based around open source, the questions were: would they make any money? Would they survive? Once it was clea...

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

Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, the oldest and by far the most successful company whose business is based purely around open s...

Interesting : The Open University (OU) is now a certified Microsoft IT Academy adding to its fast-growing suite of IT vendor certifications....

Last week, I met up with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO. He gave a very fluent presentation to a group of journalists that ran through Re...

Free software began as a political movement: its central aim was – and remains – the propagation of freedom. Later, it became a development...

Yesterday I popped into part of the London Open Source Forum. This was a laudable effort organised by Red Hat in conjunction with some of it...

Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process.... On Open Enterprise blog .

This blog tends to concentrate on two broad aspects of open source: the issues that affect enterprise users, and the companies based around ...

With apologies for returning to the theme of patents, I'd like to direct your attention to a long and interesting piece that has appeare...

Everybody knows that Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux distro for the desktop. Everybody knows that it has achieved that distinction be c...

An interesting conversation took place recently: Несколько дней назад в Минкомсвязи России прошла встреча с участием главы Минкомсвязи РФ И...

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

As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. Th...

In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result o...

There is something rather curious about software companies operating in the open source world. Although they may be competitors in a particu...

Here's Red Hat blowing the trumpet for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, or rather for its latest supporter.... On Open Enterprise ...