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451 CAOS Links 2009.01.13
Matthew Aslett, January 13, 2009 @ 12:33 pm ETRed Hat gets a new VP. rPath appoints former Red Hat COO as chairman. Ubuntu Launchpad to go open source. Open source Windows. SCO formally files for Chapter 11. And more.
Official announcements
Industry Veteran Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as Vice President and General Manager of North American Sales Red Hat
rPath Welcomes Ex-Red Hat COO Tim Buckley rPath
Liferay Portal Released in Enterprise Edition LifeRay
Adaptive Planning Announces Record 2008 Results and Strong Company Momentum in the Face of Economic Downturn Adaptive Planning
GridGain 2.1 – Open Cloud Platform Enables Development of Native Cloud Applications GridGain
OpenSplice DDS Real-time Integration Software Now Available as Open Source PrismTech
Letter to Partners and Customers Regarding Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan The SCO Group
News reports
A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows Ashlee Vance, New York Times
Open Source at CES 2009 Heise online
Red Hat CEO: priorities and apologies part of managing David Ranii, The News & Observer
Blogs
Ubuntu Launchpad to go open source Matt Asay, Cnet
Open Source Business Models: Thoughts on 2009 Mark Radcliffe
Sun expanding MySQL Drizzle staffing – going cloud? Sean Michael Kerner, InternetNews.com
Free Software or Open Source? You Choose Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK
Predictions: Open Source Business Readiness Ratings – FAIL The Silent Penguin
Open-Source Windows Jason Brooks, eWeek
Should Microsoft Open Source Windows? Thom Holwerda , OSnews
SCO: Garbage Time Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld
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