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451 CAOS Links 2008.12.05
Matthew Aslett, December 5, 2008 @ 12:48 pm ETIBM picks Ubuntu for virtual desktop. Nokia acquires Symbian and prepares for open source. SourceForge gets a new CEO. Microsoft finds some old TCO numbers down the back of the couch. And more.
Official announcements
IBM and Business Partners Introduce a Linux-Based, Virtual Desktop IBM
Novell Reports Financial Results for Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2008 Novell
SourceForge Appoints Scott L. Kauffman President and Chief Executive Officer SourceForge
Nokia acquires Symbian Limited Symbian
Symbian Foundation moves closer to launch Symbian
Oracle Contributes Code to Linux Community, Teams with Emulex and Launches Early Adopter Program Oracle
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 Reduces Cost with End User Management for Mixed IT Environments Novell
SpringSource Teams With VMware to Deliver Virtualization to Enterprises Using Spring SpringSource
Dimdim Exits Beta, Releases Source Code, Launches SynchroLive DimDim
Moonlight 1.0 BETA Makes Linux Users First Class Citizens for Digital Media Novell
Continuent Announces Support For MySQL 5.1 Continuent
iVenture Invests in Siruna Siruna
DotNetNuke Corporation Appoints New CEO DotNetNuke
Document Interoperability Initiative Demonstrates Momentum and Results Microsoft
Save Up To 96% on ECM with an Open Source Stack Alfresco
Microsoft Gives Businesses Lower TCO Versus Hidden Costs of Open Source Microsoft
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expands to over 45 Certified Configurations Red Hat
InnoDB Plugin 1.0.2 for MySQL 5.1.30 (GA) Released Innobase (Oracle)
New Relic Announces Support for Ruby on Rails Release 2.2 New Relic
Songbird 1.0 is Here! Songbird
Dexton ASE Opens up to Open Source Community Dexton
News articles
Open-Source Developers Set Out Software Road Map for 2020 Peter Sayer, CIO.com
Google: Open source lets us control our destiny Chris Duckett, Builder AU
Cloud computing to fuel open source explosion Nick Heath, Silicon.com
Zmanda’s Revenue and Subscriber Base Quadrupled in 2008 via Open Source Data Protection Solutions Jayashree Adkoli, TMCnet
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility David Mayer, ZDNet
Valley Girls: Mitchell Baker Maggie Shiels, BBC
China Internet cafes switching to Chinese OS The Associated Press
Blogs
Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet
Saas, open source and “social media” at Gilbane 2008 Kathleen Reidy, The 451 Group
Ingres Paints a Rosy Picture Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK
Mapping open source into mobile: who, where and how Andreas Constantinou, Vision Mobile
Thank you to our friends Todd Barr, FiveRuns
SugarCRM Veteran Builds Pentaho’s Open Source Channel The VAR Guy
China: We’ll keep Red Flag flying here Bobbie Johnson, The Guardian
Tracing the evolution of open source in China Mike Rogoway, The Silicon Forest
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