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451 CAOS Links – 2008.10.24
Matthew Aslett, October 24, 2008 @ 8:43 am ETSun expects heavy losses as equity firm ups its stake beyond 20%. The Linux Foundation says Fedora is worth $10.8bn. Red Hat open sources JBoss Operations Network. Will open source survive the economy unscathed? And more.
Press releases
Sun Microsystems Reports Preliminary Results for the First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Sun Microsystems
Linux Foundation Publishes Study Estimating the Value of Linux Linux Foundation
Project Jopr: JBoss Operations Network Now Open Source Red Hat
Zimbra Founder Invests in Dimdim (Pdf) DimDim
OFE Calls on EU to Crack Down on Public Procurement Practice for IT Software OpenForumEurope
Broad industry support for Symbian Foundation continues to grow (Pdf) Symbian Foundation
Lee Williams nominated as Executive Director for the Symbian Foundation (Pdf) Symbian Foundation
Mule 2.1 Enterprise Launches with New Features to Increase Performance and Simplify SOA Development MuleSource
Infobright Releases Open Source Data Warehouse Software for 32-Bit Linux Infobright
Talend Announces Availability of Talend Data Quality – Wonderbox among the First Customers Talend
Marketcetera Extends Open Source Trading Capabilities to the Back Office Marketcetera
Compiere Introduces First Comprehensive Warehouse Management System on Open Source Platform Compiere
Economic Woes Result in More Companies Turning to Open Source Alternatives Intelestream
OpenX Launches Professional Services and Support for Web Publishers OpenX
“Lessons learnt, openQRM 4.0″ presentation at the T-Dose conference openQRM project
News articles
Sun Microsystems swings to big quarterly loss Forbes
Private firm buys big stake in Sun Microsystems San Jose Mercury News, Brandon Bailey
Sun is a software company, new top shareholder says ComputerWorld, Robert McMillan
EU companies excluding open source vendors CIO, Paul Meller
Microsoft exec touts mixed source ventures Infoworld, Paul Krill
Why Microsoft Wants Us to Get All Mixed Up LinuxJournal, Glyn Moody
Red Hat CEO: Vista marks end of ‘planned software’ ZDnet Asia, Victoria Ho
Red Hat CEO: From the economic rubble, open source will emerge stronger Computerworld Australia, Andrew Henry
Bluenog’s Unconventional Open Source Strategy InformationWeek, Charles Babcock
Blog posts
Sun’s Largest Holder Boosts Stake; Turns Up The Heat Barron’s Eric Savitz
The compelling economics of Linux: What it means for the future of computing Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin
How Microsoft will compete with ‘free’ Cnet, Jean-Louis Gassée
Android: The Open Source Cell Phone Google Open Source Blog, Chris DiBona
Managing Open Source: DLA Piper Survey Results Law & Life: Silicon Valley, Mark Radcliffe
Learning about why people don’t adopt opensource confused of calcutta
Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping Internet Evolution, Andrew Keen
The Economy Will Thump Open Source? Phooey OStatic, Sam Dean
The economy and open source software InfoWorld, Savio Rodrigues
Are vendors vital to open source? ZDnet, Dana Blankenhorn
Yes, vendors are vital to open source Joe Brockmeier
Assumptions, Drizzle Brian Aker
Aptana Cloud 1.0 Released! Studio Updated to 1.2 Aptana News Blog
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