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451 CAOS Links 2008.12.16
Matthew Aslett, December 16, 2008 @ 1:15 pm ETMarkus Rex returns to Novell’s Linux business unit. Red Hat’s second largest shareholder cuts its stake. The CEOs of Novell, Sonatype, Digium and Kaltura go on the record. Shaun Connolly joins SpringSource. And more.
Official announcements
Novell Announces Executive Appointments to Focus on Cross-Platform Solution Strategy and Growing Linux Business Novell
Palamida Finds Security Tops List of Concerns Inhibiting Broader Open Source Adoption Palamida
GigaSpaces Announces Extreme Scalability for MySQL Enterprise Customers GigaSpaces
SplendidCRM Software goes live with cost-effective Software-as-a-Service SplendidCRM
News articles
Legg Mason cuts stake in Red Hat Triangle Business Journal
Microsoft and Open Source: The Song Remains the Same Darryl K. Taft, eWeek
Novell’s CEO sees a new world of software Tom Harvey, Salt Lake Tribune
Energized by open source: Ditching closed apps spurred growth, utility says Thomas Hoffman, ComputerWorld
Speaking With Digium CEO Danny Windham Greg Galitzine, TMC.net
Ron Yekutiel, Chairman and CEO of Kaltura TVWeek
Ingres Builds Open Source Stack With Red Hat Charles Babcock, InformationWeek
OU opens crack for open source Mark Ballard, The Inquirer
Open source adoption is often bottom-up, Ph.D study says Gijs Hillenius, OSOR.EU
Eurostat considers to publish more open source tools using EUPL Gijs Hillenius, OSOR.EU
Blogs
Q&A: Mark de Visser, CEO of Sonatype Matt Asay, Cnet
SpringSource In My Step Shaun Connolly
Fundraising and Open Source Resilience Brian Gentile, JasperSoft
Can open source save gaming companies? Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet
Herding cats for fun and profit: Four tips for working with online communities Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet
‘Myst Online’ to be released fully open-source Dave Rosenberg, Cnet
Audio/visual
Building Vibrant Open Source Communities John Mark Walker
An updated version of a presentation given in March with Fabrizio Capobianco from Funambol.
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