What a goldmine my inbox was this morning. I also received the news that Microsoft’s Windows Competitive Strategy team is searching, via Linkedin, for “a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.” “Our team mission is to gather intelligence, create business strategies, and drive action [...]

I just got news that Marten Mickos, former MySQL CEO, is to depart Sun amid a reorganisation of its infrastructure and database business units. Don’t expect an announcement from Sun on this, but the news is confirmed. It seems that Sun is combining its Software Infrastructure organization with its Database Group to form a unified [...]

Ian Skerrett has announced the details of the Open Source Executive Strategy Summit, a one-day event scheduled to take place alongside this year’s EclipseCon next month. The summit is a one day event for business executives responsible for their organizations open source strategy and is designed to answer two questions: 1) ‘What Open Source Strategies [...]

Virtualization giant VMware this week announced a new open source version of its virtual desktop software, dubbed VMware View Open Client. Licensed under the LGPL, the open source virtual desktop software and its source code will be available, primarily to VMware partners, to spur development of supporting virtual desktop software. While virtual desktop, whereby virtualization [...]

US Department of Defense launches Forge.mil. VMware announces View Open Client. SugarCRM previews cloud services. Openbravo appoints Vavision founder to board. The Free Software Song in retrospect. And more.

I’m grateful to be writing a post about Linux netbooks that continues my rather bullish stance on the open source OS and the opportunity in this new form factor. You see, for a couple of recent days, it seemd I might have to retract some of my enthusiasm based on a disappointing experience. I wrote [...]

I received an email from Tarus Balog, CEO of OpenNMS Group, on Friday, taking issue with the language I had used to describe two open source vendors (and I use that term deliberately). Essentially Tarus objected to me using the term “open source vendor” to describe two companies with Open Core licensing strategies. His email [...]