VMware vs. Xen vs. Microsoft
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| VMware owns the lion’s share of the virtualization market in terms of both
| revenue (the company’s revenue doubled in 2006 to $709 million from the year
| before) and mindshare (the company’s annual user show in San Francisco this
| year recently drew 10,000 supporters) . To ice it off, the company also had a
| huge IPO this summer.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-vmware-xen.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
MYSQL IPO Chatter Picking Up Again
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| Last I checked, nothing has been filed with the SEC yet. Investors, including
| Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, have put in more than $39 million to
| date.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/26/mysql-ipo-chatter-picking-up-again/
Related:
VMware Profit Triples on Demand for Server Software
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| VMware Inc., reporting its first results since making the year's biggest
| technology initial public offering, said third-quarter profit more than
| tripled on demand for software that makes computers more efficient.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a8__s2CzaLzI&refer=news
VMware and the GPL
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| VMware’s use of Linux is hardly a secret that’s just been
| uncovered—as the usual corporation-hating online mob crying “scandal!” seems
| to be implying. The architecture of ESX Server has been known for years.
| Books have been written about it.
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=347
Linux database becomes a browser
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| What Strata doesn't lack is muscle. Nate Williams told us that it's a
| full-blooded database, capable of handling a billion records. "We already
| have clients using it with 100m record data bases," he said. "We can sort a
| million records in a minute; so if you sort a ten million record data base,
| it takes ten minutes."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/kirix_browser_database/
Open source here to stay, says MySQL CEO Marten Mickos
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| "Microsoft can use [its] money in other ways to threaten free and open-source
| software, and I'm sure that they have," Mickos said. "But I think we will see
| less of that in the future because they've done it and it hasn't helped
| them." Many Microsoft customers use open-source products and find it
| challenging when the company makes it harder to integrate Microsoft products
| and open-source software, he said.
|
| "I'm not too worried," Mickos said. "This open source movement is so strong
| that nothing can stop it anymore."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9027662&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/2rjmtn
MySQL Set For IPO?
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| Investor says maker of crucial Web 2.0 component has reached the stage when
| the world expects it to list.
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22940&hed=MySQL+Set+For+IPO%20§or=Industries&subsector=Computing
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