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Open Source and the Financial Meltdown

Dana Blankenhorn makes some good points in a post from today titled Open Source in a Time of Recession. One of the better points is that, despite the incredible turmoil in global markets and economies, we actually haven't met the official definition of a recession yet here in the U.S., which would be two consecutive quarters without economic growth. Nevertheless, the financial gloom and doom we're seeing will cause constricted business spending on software, and open source stands to benefit from that in several ways. There may also be some unexpected events in the works.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Oracle remains top dog in databases, but faces many open source challenges.....

Will open source blow mobiles open? .....

Linux runs 85 percent of the world's fastest computers.....

Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 1 packs a new theme.....

The European Commission is considering doing research on whether it should migrate to open source software.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Is there a partnership or acquisition in the works involving Red Hat and Oracle? The grapevine apparently claims so and we speculated about an Oracle acquisition a while ago--still think it makes sense.....

How many members of the open source community are women? It's hard to get an exact number, but a post at Pingdom lists many of the leading women, and cites market research showing them at about 1.5 percent of the total community.....

Open source tools for the digital living room.....

A Dutch charity is funding an open source project to create smart card software.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow......

Sun Microsystems officials are maintaining that MySQL will remain fully open source but does that mean just the kernel?.....

Sun is also in a new partnership with Liferay, to deliver next-generation web technologies.....

Oracle is eyeing open source developers with its Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware....


In other Oracle news, one of its executives says there should be only one Linux distribution: Red Hat.....


Linux.com has a video interview with IBM's Linux guru.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Former JBoss executive serves up advice to Red Hat: It's best not to rest on your laurels.....Oracle says it is playing by open source community rules.....Sugar CRM to support iPhone, Blackberry.....Sun Pushes open source storage.....Open source, multi-touch displays?.....Open source big names help attract new users.....



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.



Rockin' Times for Red Hat--But Who Will Come Knocking?

Red Hat, a titan among Linux software companies, is out with strong quarterly numbers along with some commentary from new chief executive Jim Whitehurst. The New York Times referred to the positive financial performance as a welcome present for Whitehurst, but I really see it as proof of the efficacy of Red Hat's open source business model: Deliver strong products and get revenues from support.

Red Hat's quarterly sales rose 27 percent and earnings were above analysts' conencus estimates. The company is forecasting growth of 30 percent for the fiscal year that it just begun. How is the company putting all this together, and can it stay independent?


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

SearchEnterpriseLinux has a good interview with Sun Microsystems' Barton George about Sun's plans for open source and MySQL integration.....

The EU is contributing more than 12 million dollars to a project called PrimeLife, designed to deliver open source tools for personal privacy protection.....

eWeek has an interesting story on best practices for mitigating risks associated with open source code.....