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Linux and Virtualization Will March Forward Together

As we posted yesterday, next week's LinuxCon conference in Portland looks like one of the better open source events of the year to check in on, and you can do so remotely, from your computer. The Linux Foundation is putting the event on, and the foundation's Amanda McPherson has a preview interview up with one of the speakers, Bob Sutor from IBM, here. Sutor is the VP of Open Source and Linux at IBM, and makes some interesting points about how virtualization is the biggest opportunity for Linux of all. Is it?


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.


OStatic Buffer Overflow...

Moblin version 2.0 video - finally, a real mobile UI for netbooks. Check out the video here for a look at Intel's Moblin OS, optimized for Atom chips.

If Oracle commits to Solaris, will IBM buy Red Hat? Oracle may offer customers attractive terms to stay on Solaris, affecting migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Can open source refuse to do business? If an open source developer doesn't like someone, can he or she obstruct usage of applications?

Internet.com launches online freelance marketplace. It's free to join, post projects, bid on projects, and seek freelance gigs.

Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic launch a new open source consortium. It will focus on large-scale data aggregation, and ease mining of medical records.



A Red Hat Acquisition By Oracle? Unlikely

In a swimmingly good day for the stock market yesterday, shares in Red Hat rose a whopping 10 percent, on speculation that Oracle may buy the company. The flight of fancy began with comments from Jeffries & Co. analyst Katherine Egbert, covered by Barron's. Reuters picked up on the rumor, but Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is having none of it, and Matt Asay points out that this exact rumor is seasonal. I doubt if Oracle is after Red Hat, but I'm not as sure as Vaughan-Nichols that an acquisition wouldn't make sense for Oracle.


Open Source Doesn't Need Billionaires

Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: where are the open source billionaires? as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source.



Consumer Desktop Linux from Red Hat? Fuhgeddaboudit...

In case you were wondering, Red Hat--fresh off a rosy earnings report that was interpreted by analysts as a welcoming present for new CEO Jim Whitehurst--won't deliver a desktop product for consumers anytime soon. In a news post at the company's site, team members write: We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.

While there has been much speculation that Red Hat might target the consumer desktop, I'm not surprised by this news. Why isn't the company delivering such a product? Because it doesn't need to.



The Linux Kernel Team Grows--No End in Sight

Recently, I was talking to a tech journalist friend of mine who has been covering Microsoft since the company's inception. He made the point that nobody at Microsoft knows the whole code base of the Windows operating system anymore. Individuals once did, but the operating system is a big ball of code that no single developer knows from end to end.

That was the thought that came to mind when I saw the just-released survey on Linux Kernel Development from the Linux Foundation. The survey provides an exhaustive and fascinating glimpse at what it describes as one of the largest cooperative software projects ever attempted.