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Of the many sins that Silicon Valley practices, none are more dangerous or prevalent than the sin of smugness. Savio Rodrigues has a good posting making the point that Microsoft is learning from and adapting to the open-source movement, while the open-source movement is so enamored wit...
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My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000 experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-t...
These days, executives realize that there are 'new school' ways of acquiring a company with a software asset. For all of the immeasurable benefits it has brought to the development community, open source technology has added a complex variable to relevant parties calculating the M&A eq...
The Oracle move is strategically brilliant. Oracle gains an almost-instant, solid foothold in open source, which is one of the fastest-growing software market segments in the world, and which has extremely broad appeal to users in every geographical and industry market. Oracle also ga...
Open source software in 2006 was characterized by continuous, sometimes subtle advances, and also by a few key individual developments. The impact and attributes of these changes can be summed up in 10 trends.
When building the right project team to complete a custom solution there are many forces at work. These include business drivers, technical drivers, and organizational and political motivations. Regardless of the business or organization there are three basic rules to follow in buildin...
At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?
It has become something of a cliché that Linux has reached a critical point in its development and adoption. However, this is especially true now when we look at what events are lined up to occur in the near future, and particularly in the desktop area.
It's important not to get too carried away with 'the latest tech trend.' Technology changes more rapidly than any other sector, and this year's 'must have' technology is quickly made obsolete, or so it seems. However, every so often something significant comes along that truly changes ...
BEA and IBM, says JBoss dynamo Marc Fluery, have adopted a strategy he calls 'OSS Strip Mining.' While IBM and BEA shareholders benefit, Fleury contends, the open source community does not. 'Taking open source software built by a community and 'Bluewashing' or 'Blending' [it] within pr...
