Canonical partners with IBM for closed source database
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| Here’s an interesting bit of news from the blurred line between open and
| closed source software. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has announced that it is
| reselling IBM’s DB2 Express-C database as both a standalone software package
| and as a software appliance with VMware. While Express-C is free as in beer,
| it is not free as in speech. Of course, if you want support it is not free at
| all.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/21/canonical-partners-with-ibm-for-closed-source-database/
Related and recent:
Lotus Notes 8.5 to fully support Ubuntu Linux 7.0 in mid-2008
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| "We're doing pilots with customers now," Satyadas said. "Some of the requests
| came from big companies" with as many as 100,000 users that are interested in
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| moving to Ubuntu Linux on the desktop.
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| "Linux is cool now," he said. "We use it ourselves. We are able to offer a
| secure, rich and cost-effective Microsoft alternative."
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9058900&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top
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