MySQL CEO: Open Source Is Software's Game of The Future
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| Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, gave a keynote address at the Software
| and Information Industry Association software strategy summit in San
| Francisco yesterday. His topic was "Building A Sustainable Open
| Source Business." Like a good hockey player, he advised the
| audience to "skate to where the puck is going to be."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/mysql_ceo_open.html
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Zenoss builds a competitive advantage with open source infrastructure
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| "...The fact that you can use Linux without a per-seat licensing fee
| helps us quite a bit. It keeps our costs down. Instead of spending a
| lot of money buying expensive proprietary software, we can pay salaries
| for developers and get our product to market quicker."
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/1849252&from=rss
OSGeo Graduates MapGuide Open Source to Full Project Status
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| With more than 25,000 downloads in its first year and an average of
| four to five thousand downloads per month in 2007, the software
| is already being embraced by the geospatial open source community.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070417/sftu054.html?.v=95
Watchfire Expands to Open Source Ecosystem
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| The code will also be on the Google Code open source code repository
| Web site in a bid to help grow a community of users.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3672151
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