I recently noted that Centeris, which enables the integration of Linux into Microsoft environments, had changed its name to Likewise and launched a new open source authentication project called Likewise Open. This week I was able to catch up with Likewise CEO, Barry Crist, who shared some more details about the company’s products and strategy […]

VMware’s share price may have taken a hit following the launch of Oracle VM but the product has wider implications in the software market. To some extent it is a software appliance play: like Raw Iron without the iron. This question and answer from the Q&A says it all:
“Does Oracle VM require a host operating […]

Between BusinessWeek’s “That’s One Way To Reinvent A Company” and “Scott McNealy’s five reasons that free, open source software is good for Sun and our customers” from Jim Laurent’s Weblog, there’s some good insight into the history of Sun’s open source enlightenment this week.
It is interesting to see how far the company has come. It […]

Last fall was marked by some fairly stunning announcements for open source. First software behemoth Oracle said it was going to offer its own support and version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Then, of course, was the pact announced between Microsoft and Novell. We also heard news that Sun would not only be open […]

I am pleased the announce today the we have officially launched the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and the first CAOS Report - “Stack and Deliver,” covering the open source stack provider space. For more details on these announcements, I invite you to take a look at the two press releases […]

Sun Microsystems and Canonical issued a joint press release yesterday regarding Ubuntu support for the UltraSPARC T1 processor and the related Sun server line. We touched upon this topic in part one of our interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, late last week.
While this news was expected, based on Mark Shuttleworth’s appearance during […]