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Red Hat: Right On the Radar of Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM and Microsoft

We've written before about how, among large commercial open source companies, Red Hat's model of offering support and services for free software has proven to be a big winner. The company delivers quarter after quarter of outstanding earnings, and is building quite a large mountain of cash. At the upcoming Red Hat Summit, September 1st through 4th in Chicago, Cisco will be a major sponsor, and Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell will be on hand. As The Var Guy notes, for at least a few days ? at its own conference ? Red Hat will be seated at the center of the server universe. Meanwhile, Microsoft isn't ignoring the company, either.


Cisco Announces 10 Finalists in its Linux App Contest

I'm always a big fan of contests seeking top open source and crowdsourced applications, especially ones with cash prizes. Why shouldn't innovative developers be paid for their work, even if they're creating open tools? For several months now, Cisco has been running a contest seeking Linux-based applications for its AXP (Application Extension Platform) and ISR (Integrated Services Routers). The contest drew proposals from developers all over the world, 900 entries in all, and Cisco has announced the 10 finalists here, including a video worth watching. The ultimate winner gets $100,000 in the contest. Here are details on some of the applications the winning teams came up with.


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Cisco declares war, embraces open source. It has a new Unified Computing initiative, and although the technology is proprietary, open source software plays a role.

Intellectual property and open source. Read an excerpt from the award-winning book of the same name.

Apache's ongoing licensing bout with Sun. The recently updated Java Specification Requests (JSRs) show that a battle continues.

15 interesting facts about the Linux kernel. Only two percent was written by Linus Torvalds.

Could Cloudera become the open source Asia? Its talent pool runs deep.



Sun's McNealy Tapped for Government Open Source Ideas

If you've been following President Obama's search for a CTO for the country, you may have seen BusinessWeek's report that the choice he will make has narrowed down to two candidates, both born in India. They are, according to the report, Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, and Vivek Kundra, who holds the same title in the government of Washington, D.C. Previously, Google's Eric Schmidt and Sun's Jonathan Schwartz had been rumored to be candidates. Now, ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy has revealed that he has been asked to prepare a paper for the Obama administration on how open source technologies are the key to a more secure, more efficient government.


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Cisco is open sourcing its new messaging protocol, Etch.....

Software margins, the cloud, and open source.....

The New York Times recaps Mozilla's history.....



Ribbit Proves an Important Point for Open Web Telephony APIs

Internet telephony startup Ribbit announced today that one of its long-standing proof of concept projects is now available: an integration with Salesforce.com's on-demand customer relationship management applications. Ribbit-handled voice messages can now be integrated with Salesforce in various ways, including having them converted to text, and much more. While there is proof of concept behind this integration for Ribbit and its commercial efforts, there is also proof of concept here for open source developers who have their eyes on the growing synergies between online telephony and open source.

 



Vyatta's Updated Network OS: Can it Make Inroads at Enterprises?

Can open source technology bring cost savings and performance advantages even down at the core network infrastructure levels where players such as Cisco dwell?

Vyatta, which offers both software and hardware aimed at the space, is pushing forward with the concept that it can. On the heels of its recent announcement of an open source router aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses--where Vyatta's router costs thousands less than comparable offerings from Cisco--the company has a new version 4 release of its Vyatta Community Edition network operating system. Previous editions have been downloaded 150,000 times by organizations in aerospace and defense, education, financial services, and government.



Vyatta's Open Source Router: Will Businesses Bite?

Do businesses necessarily need to spend thousands of dollars on network routers from giants such as Cisco? Vyatta, with the company tagline welcome to the dawn of open source networking, is challenging the idea with an open source network appliance for the small- and medium-sized (SMB) business market. With integrated routing, firewall, and VPN features, the Vyatta 514 is a small appliance that uses the company's Linux-based applications. Pricing starts at $697, with products from Cisco and others costing thousands more, but the jury's out on whether businesses will trust the core of their hardware/software network infrastructure to open source.