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Open Source Backers See Downturn Opportunity
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| Panelist Marten Mikos, former CEO at mySQL and an outgoing executive at Sun
| (which purchased the database software last year in a blockbuster
| billion-dollar deal), was quick to note there are many high-quality open
| source applications, "but customers buy on low price, so in a recession, open
| source is that much more attractive both for the applications and the cost of
| development."
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| John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM, agreed.
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| "All companies are rethinking the value proposition," he said. "If you're a
| 100-percent proprietary software, it's difficult to create unique value."
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3812011/Open+Source+Backers+See+Downturn+Opportunity.htm
Microsoft is trying to refute this. Lies and more lies...
Nuxeo Announces the Availability of Nuxeo EP 5.2, the New Release of Its Open
Source ECM Platform
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| After 18 months of open and intensive R&D efforts, Nuxeo presents a major
| version of its ECM open source platform: Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP) 5.2.
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http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-24-2009/0004993540&EDATE=
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No Justification Need
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| What's at the forefront of my crabbiness is the almost-complete capture of
| the Open Source Business Conference's news cycle by Brad Smith's presence at
| that conference left me wondering who else was even there this week, other
| than Smith, Matt Asay, and a few pundits and luminaries. In a nicely done
| spin for the media, OSBC suddenly became about how Microsoft braved the
| lion's den, instead of the real progress a lot of companies are making in
| open source development and business.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-03-28-020-26-OP-SW
All That Got Stolen Was Microsoft's Thunder
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| The best response I've seen was from Jonathan Corbet at a panel at the Open
| Source Business Conference in San Francisco last May. Corbet is a Linux
| kernel developer himself and executive editor of the Linux Weekly News.
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| "I feel I've been called a thief," he said levelly during a panel at the
| event, and pointed out that Microsoft was one of the companies that had
| patented "thousands of trivial functions ... There's no way to write a
| nontrivial program that can't be claimed to infringe on someone's patents."
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/message_to_brad.html
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