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Global market mashup for open source
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| There was not a whole lot of fanfare over
| the recent merger of the West Coast-based
| Open Solutions Alliance and the European-
| based OW2, but the move may also reflect a
| greater, global market crossover among
| different geographies and vendors using
| open source software.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/10/11/global-market-mashup-for-open-source/
Lessons Learned: A Services-Based Open Source Business Model
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| Margins on support business are very good.
| Look at RedHat's margin (over 80%) as an
| example of this. If you look at
| proprietary vendors like Oracle, their
| business is built around making money from
| their support and maintenance offerings.
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http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2009/10/lessons-learned-a-services-based-open-source-business-model/
Funambol Introduces First Open Source 4G Mobile Cloud Platform for Device Management and Synchronization
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| The wireless industry is rapidly advancing
| from 2G and 3G networks to 4G. A major
| benefit of 4G is that it provides greater
| wireless broadband capacity for more users
| than prior technologies. Mobile operators
| around the globe are racing to be first to
| market with WiMax and LTE networks.
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http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Funambol-1056762.html
MuleSoft Announces General Availability of Tcat Server, Enterprise Tomcat Made Simple
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Mulesoft-1056879.html
Mckoi Announces MckoiDDB 1.0, an Open Source Distributed Database System
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| -Mckoi Software announced today that
| Version 1.0 of MckoiDDB, a distributed
| database system, is available for download
| at http://www.mckoi.com/ under the open
| source GPLv3 license. MckoiDDB is a
| database management application that
| provides software developers an engine for
| organizing large and complex data-sets over
| clusters of servers, and an API that
| supports transactions and low latency
| queries.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091006005199&newsLang=en
Praxis and AdaCore Launch SPARK GPL
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| The release of SPARK GPL completes the
| strategic shift that sees the once
| proprietary SPARK technology now a part of
| the Freely Licensed Open Source Software
| (FLOSS) ecosystem.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091006005461&newsLang=en
Business Models of The Internet of Things - An Analysis of Pachube's Open Source Platform
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| Yesterday we analyzed some of the
| applications being built with Pachube, an
| open source platform enabling developers to
| connect sensor data to the Web. We at
| ReadWriteWeb think that Pachube is an
| excellent example of one of our Top 5
| Trends of 2009: Internet of Things. So
| we're exploring Pachube in-depth in a 3-
| part series.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pachube_business_models.php
Misunderstanding open source #4: not knowing your own alignment
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| Many people are confused about the free
| software vs open source debate because they
| donât know (or they hide) their own
| alignment.
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http://jamesdixon.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/misunderstanding-open-source-4-not-knowing-your-own-alignment/
Vyatta Enhances Open Networking Software With New Features and Service Offerings
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Vyatta-1056074.html
What's behind Web browser choices
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| For the last year, Microsoft's Internet
| Explorer has held around 70% of the market,
| while Mozilla's Firefox has held 20%,
| according to Janco Associates. The rest of
| the market is held by smaller players:
| Google Chrome with 4%, Opera with 1%, Apple
| Safari with less than 1% and the remainder
| to older versions of Mozilla and Netscape
| browsers.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101309-browser-choice.html
Zenoss Kicks Off Q4 with Innovation Award and Presentation at Dow Jones Conference
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS110224+13-Oct-2009+BW20091013
Compiere ERP Selected by Pharmaceutical Distributor to Optimize Distribution Operations
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS130329+13-Oct-2009+BW20091013
Liferay and Vaadin Announce New Partnership
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS147267+13-Oct-2009+PRN20091013
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