Date: 06/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

I wonder when you'll see Zenoss Core at Fry's?

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Date: 06/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Why does sharing work best for 21st century capitalism? The answer, in my view, is friction. There is less friction in open source, where money enters the equation only when both sides agree it should.

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Date: 06/11/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Despite all the FUD and the threats, Big Green knows it must still live with Linux in the computing environment. Its customers demand it, they expect it, and Microsoft must deliver it.

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Date: 06/11/07     Keywords: mysql, sql

Booking.com says it's processing "tens of thousands" of reservations a day, but more important that it's growing exponentially. Yet they commited to mySQL. Not Oracle, not DB2, not SQL Server, and not Ingres. Now it's always possible these people are out of their minds, or just enamored of freeware, but I doubt it.

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Date: 06/08/07     Keywords: microsoft

So long as the game remains one against the many, Microsoft has every incentive to keep acting as it does. But if another, equally large, and just as ferocious beast stood up for open source, I believe the game would change in a hurry.

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Date: 06/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

"Companies outside the U.S. have all accepted this new realilty – distributed component delivery and management."

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Date: 06/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

When you're building solutions based on parts, you upgrade based on modules, or by combining modules. You're reluctant to change what sits below the modules because that impacts all the dependencies above. So you don't.

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Date: 06/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

I happen to think SixApart’s decision to make Movable Type 4 open source, under the GPL, is big news. Once again, you have a major vendor being pushed down the open source incline, toward the GPL, by pressure from the marketplace. In this case, from WordPress. WordPress is already open source. Some full disclosure is required. ZDNet blogs [...]

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Date: 06/05/07     Keywords: microsoft

The fact is that Microsoft can't be completely written out of the open source world. Too many companies run mixed environments. If we try to boycott each customer touched by this boilerplate we're going to be in a very lonely place.

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Date: 06/04/07     Keywords: microsoft

The only real demand we should make of Microsoft in this whole patent mess, as Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu said recently, is this power to route around the bottleneck. Tell us where the claimed violations are, and we'll fix them.

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Date: 06/01/07     Keywords: microsoft

One of the great frustrations in dealing with Microsoft on open source questions is its tendency to play "good-cop bad-cop" games. (The image at right is actually the logo of a record label in Boston, which you might want to visit.) Good-cop bad-cop is a great interrogation technique "As Seen On ...

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Date: 06/01/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

The Free Software Foundation has released its "last call" draft of GPL V3, along with a personal plea from Richard Stallman for folks to upgrade from V2. (This gadget-loving Tux was found at Computer Shopper.) Most discussion of the new release will focus on Novell, which won clearance for its Microsoft ...

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Date: 05/31/07     Keywords: linux

Following up on my previous post, and in answer to the recent piece by our own Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on the failure of desktop Linux, I would like to make a modest proposal. An all-in Linux laptop. That is you sell a laptop with a Linux, a user interface, and all the applications ...

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Date: 05/31/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

While the subject here is open source, I do want to make mention of how the proprietary software world will survive, a story ripped from today's headlines. Hardware. The Microsoft Milan Table is more than a nifty interface solution. Like the iPod, it's an expression of software in hardware form. Open source has ...

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Date: 05/30/07     Keywords: software

I want to continue our discussion about penguins as predators by talking about Covalent. (This limited edition ale was described as ""a bomber you can't refuse" by its producer, Boulder Brewing.) Covalent's business is supporting open source projects, then selling direct support of the same software to corporate clients. Covalent doesn't launch projects. ...

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/120794758/

Date: 05/29/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

The reason for the merger which created the Linux Foundation was to give open source a big, unified platform from which to respond to threats. (Picture of penguins flying in the water is by Guillaume Daugard.) Given the reality of Microsoft's patent threat, it was only a matter of time before ...

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Date: 05/29/07     Keywords: mysql, software, sql, linux, microsoft, apache

Writer Rodney Gedda at Computerworld writes that aQuantive, the online ad agency Microsoft is buying for $6 billion, is an open source play. The reason? Many aQuantive units, including AvenueA Razorfish and Atlas, make extensive use of open source software, including mySQL, Linux, and Apache. If you use open source, are you ...

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Date: 05/27/07     Keywords: microsoft

The Washington game of dumping incriminating documents late on a Friday is well-known. When someone does it, suspicions are raised. (Image from the blog of La Shawn Barber.) Now Novell has done just that with its Friday night document dump on the Microsoft agreement. Just to make us even more suspicious, ...

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/120064717/

Date: 05/25/07     Keywords: software

On this Memorial Day weekend I'd like to approach the controversial question of free software. Not free as in free beer, but free as in granting liberty. At the bottom of what I call the open source incline, in the GPL license, is the highly-controversial idea of freedom as an obligation. You ...

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Date: 05/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

While I believe fully in the consensus process there are times when you have to make a choice. Hillary Clinton faces such a choice today. You're either for the war or agin' it, girl. Don't talk about future planning. No long words like efficacious, either. Yea or nay. Novell faced such a ...

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