A bumper CAOS Links rounding up the news and views from the festive period, including: Red Hat revenue up 22% in 3Q. Alan Cox departs for Intel. Evolving open source business strategies. The commercialization opportunity around OpenOffice.org. And more.
Official announcements
Red Hat Reports Third Quarter Results Red Hat
OpenLogic Survey Highlights Enterprise Perspectives on Open Source Application Servers OpenLogic
Asianux Concludes Triumphant Year, Welcomes Fifth Member Asianux
News articles
The future of open source Jason Snyder, InfoWorld
Alan Cox: Moving on from Red Hat Sander Marechal, LXer
An Open Secret Marshall Krantz, CFO Magazine
Sam Ramji: Open source is burgeoning at Microsoft David Worthington, SDTimes
Sun executive reveals more open-source plans for JavaFX Chris Kanaracus, ComputerWorld
Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register
Bring Open Source into Hedge Funds Peter Algert, BusinessWeek
Rails and Merb Web frameworks agree to merge James Niccolai, IDG News Service
Seven Predictions for Open Source in 2009 Roger Burkhardt, Dr Dobb’s Journal
Linux in 2009: Recession vs. GNU Bruce Byfield, InternetNews.com
Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels John Foley, InformationWeek
Blogs
We are all open source/proprietary now Matt Asay, Cnet
Companies drive open source success? Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet
Open source becomes paid software in 2009 Dave Rosenberg, Cnet
Open source business models must be voluntary Dana Blankenhorn, ZDnet
The War for Open Source Tarus Balog
Open source trends in 2009 Zack Urlocker, InfoWorld
Buyouts and Mergers to Proliferate in 2009 Sam Dean, OStatic
A new M&A for open source? Matt Asay, Cnet
Open Source: Not a Business Model and Not Broken Mark Radcliffe
Open Source Maturity Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems
Increasing Ecosystem Co-operation Dave Neary
MySQL: Now and Then Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk
Does dual-licensing limit community? Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet
Mozilla CEO Confirms “Complicated” Relationship with Google, Since Chrome Sam Dean, OStatic
OpenOffice.org: About Turning OpenOffice.org Migrations into a Business Roberto Galoppini
The market opportunity for OpenOffice.org migrations Savio Rodrigues
OpenOffice.org Migrations: Easing Medium-Large Companies’ Migrations Roberto Galoppini
Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org Michael Meeks
Why is OpenOffice “profoundly sick”? Matt Asay, Cnet
Alan Cox and the End of an Era Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK
Alan Cox leaves Red Hat, suggesting company’s future direction Matt Asay, Cnet
No such thing as a free Linux distro Joe Brockmeier, ZDnet
Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense Matt Asay, Cnet
Top Ten Open Source Legal Developments: 2008 Mark Radcliffe
JBoss Virtual Experience 2009 Rick Sharples
Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus Dave Rosenberg, Cnet
A Good Foundation for 2009 Glyn Moody, ComputerWorld UK
Why IBM Should Open Source Notes and Domino Sam Dean, OStatic
Is open sourcing Domino a good idea? Stormy Peters
The Ubuntu Ethos Jono Bacon
Merb gets merged into Rails 3! Riding Rails
Rails And Merb Merge Yehuda Katz
Audio/visual
Comparison Of Open Source App Servers OpenLogic
“OpenLogic provides overview of open source application servers including EJB3 vs. Spring, EJB2 compatibility, and OSGi.”
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