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Customers versus users: a distinction
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| He is of course right that most enterprise adopters would not care about an
| openness index, and in fact such a thing could actually cause more harm than
| good by confusing potential adopters. However enterprises were not the
| potential audience that I (or I believe MTG) envisioned for what MTG called
| the Equitable Open Source label.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/05/21/customers-versus-users-a-distinction/
Here are some brand-new example of very weak 'open source' things:
Misys Open Source Solutions Launches Open Carbon World Portal
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| Misys Open Source Solutions in conjunction with several industry partners
| announced today at the California Climate Action Registry’s 6th Annual
| Navigating the Carbon World conference that it has launched a beta-version of
| its Open Carbon World portal for members of the carbon community interested
| in driving market policy.
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http://www.ebizq.net/news/9623.html?grss
RTOS company joins open-source community
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| Express Logic recently introduced an Eclipse-based integrated development
| environment, BenchX, which provides software developers with the tools they
| need to build intelligent embedded devices.
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http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/exp/exp142.html
1&1 Opts for Open Source Business Foundation Membership
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| 1&1 Internet, a web host company, today announced that it has joined Open
| Source Business Foundation e.V. Seated in Nuremberg. It states that Open
| Source Business Foundation is a European network of the open source sector
| and already has more than 120 members - innovative companies as well as
| scientific institutes and public-sector bodies.
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http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/1&1-opts-for-open-source-business-foundation-membership_0521082167.htm
Microsoft shoved itself into there too.
SugarCRM launches data center edition
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| "Here you have an open-source product that is already compatible with other
| open-source technologies, including PHP and ZEND, the open-source e-mail tool
| Thunderbird, mySQL, and Linux," he said in an e-mail.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/052108-sugarcrm-launches-data-center.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
At least they support and use Linux. GPLv3 for community edition.
New Open Source ColdFusion CMS Gives Costly Competitors a Run for the Money
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| Blue River Interactive Group announced today the release of Sava CMS, its
| open source ColdFusion-based content management system
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/5/prweb961254.htm
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