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Five reasons why the economic slowdown is good news for open source
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| I was recently at a conference on virtualization, but one comment by one of
| the presenters attracted my interest. He noted that one of the big drivers
| towards open source use in business took place after the dot com bust nine
| years ago. When the dot com balloon burst, companies needed less expensive
| ways to run their IT infrastructure and many turned to open source and Linux
| for the first time. Here are five reasons why the current economic malaise is
| good for open source. Here's the caveat, my next blog will be on five reasons
| why the economic downturn will be good for proprietary software vendors.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/five_reasons_why_the_economic_slowdown_is_good_news_for_open_source
Talend Secures $12 Million in Funding to Fuel Continued Worldwide Growth
http://www.mediasyndicate.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12792
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Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Is MS Preening in Public Posts?
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| The author of the email, posted on ZDNet in a Talkback forum on the Microsoft
| antitrust trial, claimed her name was Michelle Bradley and that she
| had "retired" from Microsoft last week.
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| "A verbal memo [no email allowed] was passed around the MS campus encouraging
| MS employee's to post to ZDNet articles like this one," the email said.
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| "The theme is 'Microsoft is responsible for all good things in computerdom.'
| The government has no right to prevent MS from doing anything. Period.
| The 'memo' suggests we use fictional names and state and to identify
| ourselves as students," the author claimed.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/02/17745
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