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Open Source Software Gaining Ground
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| FREE, open source office productivity tools are fast becoming the preferred
| alternative for users who are concerned about cost savings. Rozana Sani
| speaks to representatives of Sun Microsystems and IBM to get their views.
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| Open source, according to its proponents, is being adopted across major
| verticals such as public, technical, educational, financial, and services
| sectors and even among small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2497409.html
DimDim 4.0 is here!
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| As you can see from this diagram, DimDim offers free hosted web conferencing
| for meetings with up to 20 users. If you need more web conferencing
| capabilities, they offer hosted services at very reasonable rates.
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http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2008/08/dimdim-40-is-here.html
Openbravo, MySQL: Killer Open Source Combo Coming Soon
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| Openbravo — the open source ERP and point of sale (POS) specialist — is
| discussing a partnership with MySQL and exploring the virtual applications
| market, The VAR Guy learned while walking the aisles at LinuxWorld Expo.
| Here’s why solutions providers should take notice.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/openbravo-mysql-killer-open-source-combo-coming-soon/
http://tinyurl.com/55ygjo
Recent:
VC funding for open source hits an all-time high
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| Incidentally, total funding to date stands at $2.64bn.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/01/vc-funding-for-open-source-hits-an-all-time-high/
Open-source venture investing hits an all-time high
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| Just when you thought venture interest in open source was quieting down,
| along comes the biggest quarter in open source's (still young) history:
| $203.75 million raised, as reported by The 451 Group. This trumped the
| previous record of $193.6 million from Q4 2006.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907679-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
How Open Technology Could Lead Us Out Of Recession
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| At the same time, the United States has not only lost its former dominance in
| world technology, it is rapidly achieving a status of "a nation of
| shopkeepers".
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| We need to remove the barriers to entering the market. We need to be the
| innovators in science and technology again. We need to regain the excitement
| we had about scientific progress back in the 1940's and 1950's. We need
| technicians in white lab coats, and we need to look up to them because they
| are giving us wonderful things like atomic power and trips to the moon again.
| We need kids to be excited about getting a chemistry set again. We need to
| let those garage start-ups break out of that garage and open up their own
| factory. We need to bring back homebrew computer clubs. We need people who
| can say that they know something about computers besides how to turn one on.
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| In short, we need more geeks. Geeks make money.
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=how_open_technology_could_lead_us_out_of&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
No Recession at Red Hat
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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers
| in the technology industry.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/
Economic downturn = Financial upturn for GroundWork and open source
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| It's a great time to be in open source. When I see people straining to sell
| and buy homes, I can smell the recession. But when I go to work selling
| open-source solutions, I can taste prosperity. A downturn separates the wheat
| from the chaff. Here's hoping for even more open-source "wheat."
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9900837-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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