• With eye on Oracle and MySQL, Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB

  tags: opensource, database, redhat, enterprisedb

• How Important Is Open Source To Mobile Devices? – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek

  tags: informationweek, opensource, desktop, mobile, android

  • Part of the reason for this may just be expectations. People expect to be able to run certain pieces of software. iTunes, Quicken, Office and Photoshop are just a few examples. You can generally load these onto a Mac or Windows PC with no problem. There are open source alternatives to many of these that run fine on Linux, but they aren’t the same thing – they aren’t what people expect. People don’t run Windows, they run applications and they want an OS that will support their apps.

• The Apache Software Foundation’s President Dissects the “Apache Way”

  tags: opensource, apache, apacheway, philosophy

• The Server Room Blog: Open Cloud – Where it Makes Most Sense

  tags: cloudcomputing, intel, opensource, openstandards, iaas, paas, saas, interoperability

• Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal – O’Reilly Radar

  tags: opensource, whitehouse.gov, drupal, government

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• Analysts build open source straw men | Open Source | ZDNet.com

  tags: opensource, zdnet.com, analysts, gartner

• Open Source’s Dying Narrative

  tags: opensource, gartner

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We saw how Novell played the Microsoft game for years. After staying away from Microsoft for a long time, Redhat is getting closer to the proprietary software vendor. Recently, they came together to tell the world that their hypervisors will play nice with each other promise interoperability. (more…)

• OpenLogic Survey Shows Enterprise Use of Open Source Grows as Users Become More Sophisticated and Opinionated About Licensing Issues – Yahoo! Finance

  tags: opensource, survey, stats, toblog

• Kineo Open Source – Free resources – Insights – How reliable is open source software?

  tags: opensource, quality, toresearch

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