The technology and buzz keep on coming in the netbook space, which consists of lower-cost, smaller-size notebook computers (many of them Linux-based) that are as much like a smartphone as they are like a PC. One of the most exciting develoments this week was Dell’s introduction of its first line of netbooks to come with both WindowsXP and Ubuntu Linux. …
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The 451 Group CAOS Theory Blog is an open source blog with perspectives from the analysts of The 451 Group, an independent technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation.
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Can Dell and Vodafone play leapfrog with Linux?
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Has MySQL founder and CTO resigned from Sun?
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/09/05/has-mysql-founder-and-cto-resigned-from-sun/Valleywag reports that Monty Widenius has quit Sun. The Pythian Group reckons its true. Kaj Arno’s non-denial denial would appear to confirm it despite his protestations otherwise. “Technically there is no resignation letter. …
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Red Hat snaps up Qumranet for $107m
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/09/04/red-hat-snaps-up-qumranet-for-107/I mentioned just few weeks ago that virtualization specialist Qumranet, would make an “obvious target should Red Hat decide it needs more hypervisor in-house expertise.” It was so obvious that Red Hat announced today that it is to acquire Qumranet for $107m in cash, adding its KVM (Kernel Virtual …
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ThinkingOpen
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Fonality Secures $12 Million in Financing
http://ostatic.com/172442-blog/fonality-secures-12-million-i...Open source telephony and communications company Fonality announced today it has received $12 million in an additional round of financing. That's good news in light of recent suggestions that investors are beginning to slowly close their wallets on open source companies. According to a prepared statement, Fonality will use the money to bring "game-changing technology" to the telephony market,
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CohesiveFT Elastic Server
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Links 03/09/2008: New Open-source Lab, Linux Devices
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/03/new-open-source-lab/The power of open source’: Don Sambandaraksa interviews David Axmark, the co-founder of MySQL OSSEC Releases Most Comprehensive Product Update Ever Alfresco provides further proof that open source is mainstream Red Hat’s Spacewalk floats over to PostgreSQL Erlanger (Ky.) Police Department
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Daily Links 09/03/2008 (a.m.)
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2541in the ability of both the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to be vendor-neutral and open when it comes to setting technology standards.” tags: OB, OOXML, ISO, IEC 451 CAOS Theory » Why I won’t be using Google’s Chrome much “… I really don’t enjoy using my Windows very much (not as much as Linux), and use is limited mainly to Webinars and rare instances when a vendor or project provides support only for Windows. Luckily for me, those instances are occurring less
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The next step for open source revenue models
http://itgumbo.com/opensourceunleashed/2008/08/the_next_step...After reading Matthew Aslett's followup to Matt Asay's original entry on the problem with open source revenue models, I started churning my wheels upstairs. And while I won't offer a futuristic view of what open source revenue models will look like in 20** or beyond it is obvious to me that
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The next step for open source revenue models?
http://alexfletcher.typepad.com/all_bets_off/2008/08/whats-n...followup
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The next step for open source revenue models?
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BusinessWeek on Open Source at Red Hat
http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/businessweek-...Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others CNET.com: Novell chides SCO over copyright suits CNET.com: Microsoft, Novell, open source 4 Responses to “BusinessWeek on Open Source at Red Hat” 451 CAOS Theory » Commercial licensing is a double-edged sword Says: 08.19.08 at 10:40 am [...] and ensure that they convert enterprise open source users into commercial open source customers. Savio Rodrigues has been talking up this strategy for some time, while Matt Asay agrees that “any business [...] Busin
