Open season on open-source software
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| My company, NewWest.Net, and countless others would be nowhere without what's
| known inelegantly as the LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PhP. They are,
| respectively, an operating system, a web server, a database and a programming
| language. They are all very powerful, open-source solutions that generally
| cost nothing.
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3227441.ece?openComment=true
http://tinyurl.com/2m6a56
A BEA-utiful Week
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| In many respects, the middleware game was BEA's to lose. They were the 800LB
| gorilla back in 2002. I definitely left Round 1 of that fight battered and
| bruised.
|
| In many respects, IBM and JBoss ganged up on BEA in Round 2. While this round
| has spanned a few years, the standalone BEA has finally toppled.
|
| Gotta love a great fight!
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http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/sconnolly/?permalink=A_BEA_utiful_Week.txt
Related:
Oracle-BEA deal expands lock-in strategy, offers new risks and opportunities
for Red Hat
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| Through its acquisition binge, it seems as if Oracle is trying to crush any
| and all prospects for emerging open source applications as well as those of
| proprietary rivals. Red Hat and open source companies should turn up the
| volume on this stratey and target nervous customers who may be tiring of the
| Redwood City, Calif. company’s power play.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1892
Red Hat CEO Targets Oracle, Microsoft
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| Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Friday -- his fourth day on the job --
| that he's angling for a showdown with two tech titans in what he describes as
| a struggle to protect information sharing in software development.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080104/red_hat_whitehurst.html?.v=1
Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware
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| Red Hat’s new goal is to underpin 50% of the world’s servers by 2015.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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| And since virtualization is projected to take over the world by then that’s a
| lot of Xen virtualization – and there’s no extra cost in it like there is
| with VMware since it’s bundled with RHEL. (Red Hat’s telling people they’ll
| save $20,000-$30,000 a server.)
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http://www.clientservernews.com/
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