Open Source in the Enterprise: Top CEOs Make Their 2008 Predictions
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| Open Solutions Alliance survey finds CEOs agree: commercial open source will
| continue to be a worldwide growth story in 2008
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http://iphone.sys-con.com/read/481274_p.htm
Mozilla Promotes John Lilly to CEO
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| Mozilla Corp., which oversees development of the popular Firefox Web browser,
| has promoted John Lilly to chief executive officer. Lilly took on the new job
| Monday after serving as Mozilla's chief operating officer since August 2006.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080107/mozilla_ceo.html?.v=2
[John Lilly:] my new job at mozilla
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| Sometimes in life, you find an opportunity to make a difference in something
| you care about, and it feels like, even though you didn’t know it at the
| time, that the last few years have really just been practice, giving you the
| background, skills and ability to really help. And in a very few
| circumstances — once or twice in a lifetime if you’re lucky — the opportunity
| you get to make a difference is one that has a very large, even global
| impact. My new role as CEO of Mozilla Corporation feels like one of those
| times. [Here’s Mitchell’s announcement.]
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2008/01/neuros-osd-ushering-in-fresh-air-to.html
And financial 'analysts'...
Open Source Software, Major Software Suppliers Converge
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| I call Adobe perhaps the last holdout to OSS because Microsoft (MSFT) decided
| earlier in 2007 that all the hoopla over its OSS statements (e.g., “Linux is
| cancer,” “hundreds of patents violated,” and so forth) was a distraction. Now
| Microsoft is moving ahead aggressively cooperating with an OSS Linux-Windows
| interoperability community called Samba, making code available via licenses
| approved by the Open Source Initiative, and on many other OSS fronts.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/59274-open-source-software-major-software-suppliers-converge
Dennis Byron explains Linux again -- talking about graphs, money,
and "community called Samba". It's not a community.
Related:
Opinion: What will rate in 2008?
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| Open source will be creeping further into many enterprise and SMB products.
| Already in 2007 we've benchmarked open source routing code that can
| outperform the market leader. Given the vast amount and generally good
| quality of the open source code available, it makes sense for vendors to take
| advantage of it rather than reinvent the wheel.
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| Along with the open source movement, we are witnessing a resurgence of the
| general-purpose computer as the platform for such specialized network
| functions as firewalls and intrusion-prevention devices. Since the 1990s, the
| trend has been toward using specialised, hardware ASICs in such devices to
| deliver the desired high throughput and low latency. Back then,
| general-purpose computers simply didn't have the horsepower to process data
| fast enough.
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http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1832180653
Selling open source just keeps getting easier
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| One way to know that the open source market is maturing is to
| analyze how fast companies are able to get to significant revenues.
| By "significant" I mean $10M and on a sharp, upward ramp. When I
| started in the business of open source (2000, with Lineo), it was
| horribly difficult to pull in $1M in revenues, much less $10M.
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| Now? The ink will still be dry on your VC term sheets when you
| cross that threshold. Really.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/the_decreasing.html
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