Open source
The open source development model has paid off for many companies including Red Hat (Linux and JBoss), Google (Android) and Nokia (Symbian). Rally the developers, build an ecosystem and open source led companies are quite formidable.
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There is no bandwidth shortage. Visitors to Burning Man will get free cellular calls this weekend as a result.
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IBM hopes to embrace and extend the cloud into its mainframe monopoly, and keep filing patents on the technology so as to make it an eternal lock on the top end of the business.
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Would society have benefited if Microsoft had to wait until the 21st century to deliver Windows, or something like it?
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It's the compatibility between Chromium and Android, based on Linux, which I think gives the old mouse-and-keyboard upright posture desktop Linux yet-another chance.
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Apple is back in the same box Steve Jobs put it in 25 years ago.
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iOS usage surpasses Linux - by a whisker
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Time for IBM to become an open source hero
No one else does a better job of giving the lie to the idea that open source is a money loser than IBM. IBM has become the Stan Musial of open source.
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Indian admins love Linux, stuck on Windows
An Indian IT administrator said said his entire organization was using Microsoft desktops and servers — but only because a planned migration to Linux had failed.
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The cloud strategy puts Red Hat on a collision course with Microsoft.
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Red Hat sets its cloud strategy, touts portability, eyes Microsoft Azure alternative
Red Hat took the wraps off its cloud computing strategy, which revolves around promoting interoperability and application portability.
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Three things Microsoft need to do NOW to prove it loves open souce
Back in 2001 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a "cancer" that threatened the company, but now the Redmond giant claims to "love open source." Well, actions speak louder than words.
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Of course Microsoft loves open source
Microsoft loves open source because it has found a way to twist it in the direction of its own self-interest.
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Red Hat's extended support option offers breathing room
Red Hat is taking good care of its customers -- and that's one of the intended benefit of open source software. The Linux giant recently announced that it would offer an optional subscription to...
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Open mouths and closed minds in open source
We all have our own frames, our own assumptions of hero and villain, and our first instinct is always to respond in terms of that frame. We close our minds, even in open source, and that's a problem.
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Without Oracle support, OpenSolaris group breaks up
An end has come to a major part of Sun Microsystems' attempt to transform Solaris from a proprietary version of Unix to an open-source operating system built by others, too.
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I, open source robot
We need to celebrate the Affero GPL 3.0 version of Urbi, software that powers (among others) the Segway RMP and Lego Mindstorm.
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VA approaches open source day of reckoning
The process illustrates why proprietary contractors have the upper hand in government procurement. They can put hire experts to write sparkling essays showing exactly why up is down and wrong is...
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Shuttleworth: Oracle dooms its prospects in open source business
Oracle's ill-advised patent infringement case against Google will backfire, and hurt its prospects in the growing open source business market. That, according to Ubuntu creator and Linux giant...
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Oracle aims to destroy open source software industry
If proprietary companies like Oracle can buy up open source projects and then take back their open source status, how can an enterprise depend on open source software
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