Could Open Source Fuel the Next Bubble
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| With the Yahoo! acquistion of Zimbra for $350 million and the Citrix
| acquisition of Xensource for $500 million is there an impending feeding
| frenzy for open source companies? It wasn't that long ago that Red Hat bought
| JBoss and Oracle acquired Sleepycat. Maybe these are just the beginnings of
| a bigger trend.
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| So back to the boys from Redmond, so who does Microsoft buy and why?
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| Well I would think you need to discount the database market, they wouldn't
| want to compete with MS SQL.They probably would stay away from CRM because of
| Microsoft Dynamics.
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http://www.encoreopus.com/start-ups/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=505&Itemid=1
They want to acquire key Web companies and convert them to Microsoft
technologies such as Silverlight. It's part of the hijack of the Web, making
W3C irrelevant. I've received this information from a reputable source.
Related:
The irony of Ballmer's projected buying spree
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| I've been thinking through Ballmer's comments that [1]he'll buy
| 20 Web 2.0 companies each year over the next five years, and a
| biting irony just hit me: Web 2.0 is all about collaboration and
| architecture of participation. Web 2.0 grows through community.
| Ballmer plans to get into this market by buying communities...
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| ...which implies that he's not very good at building them. Now,
| some will cry "Foul!" given the rich partner ecosystem that
| Microsoft has grown over the years. But Microsoft's extant partner
| ecosystem is very different from the kind of community that open
| source and Web 2.0 fosters.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9800503-16.html
Will Microsoft Buy the New Citrix?
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| VMware, holding some 85 percent of the market, with its VI3 technologies
| offers a fully integrated stack and represents a third generation of
| virtualization technology, while Viridian and Xen-based products, including
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, XenEnterprise
| and Virtual Iron, remain second-generation products, the report stated.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2171434,00.asp
Heady Days for Virtual Systems
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| The former Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft general manager is
| now vice president of XenSource, a Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization
| company with a growing outpost in Redmond, Wash.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59088.html
What the XenSource deal says about open source
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| This is what Citrix is paying for. That and a close relationship with
| Microsoft that looks likely to get closer. “We will be building dynamic
| virtualization services and management tools on top of Viridian,” Levine
| added. “We will build the same set of products we’ve built on top of Xen for
| Viridian. We’ve already hired a team to go do that up in Redmond.”
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| While Citrix maintained it will continue support for the Xen project, this
| deal is not about a proprietary vendor getting open source religion. It's
| about grabbing an emerging player in a rapidly expanding sector of the
| market.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/what_the_xensou.html
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