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The Economy is Hardly Done Driving Enterprise Open Source Adoption

Ross Turk, directory of community at SourceForge, has a notable column up today at InfoWorld, where he considers whether the economic downturn really is good for open source. We've reported on the topic a number of times, and concluded that for the most part, the gloomy times are boosting open source adoption. Survey respondents recently overwhelmingly agreed with that, as seen here. Turk points out that in the difficult economic period seen in 2000 to 2002, open source adoption in enterprises took off, but he points out that this time things may be different. Is he right?


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Has Sun been holding Java back? Red Hat thinks so.

The Open Cloud Manifesto is nothing but a vapor tiger. IBM is the lead toward this purported push toward an open, interoperable cloud model.

GNOME vs. KDE: Which has the evolutionary advantage? Both are mature desktops, but Bruce Byfield sees KDE as the evolutionary leader.

21 of the best free Linux DVD tools. Good choices, from Xine to Handbrake.

Mark Cuban: Open-source your venture funding. Will startups post their business plans on his blog?



What's Really Behind Red Hat's Recent Drop in Earnings? Investments

Earlier this month, in a post called Behind Red Hat's Consistency: A Surprising Concentration on Investing, I discussed a very interesting post from Savio Rodrigues called Is Red Hat a Software Firm or Financial Institution? In that post, Rodrigues noted that big proprietary software companies including IBM, Microsoft and Oracle derive less than 10 percent of their net income from Other Income that they report, which refers to income generated outside their core software businesses, typically from interest-bearing investments. By contrast, Rodrigues noted that over the past two years Red Had got a whopping 48 percent of its net income from Other Income investment sources. How did this affect the financial performance that Red Hat reported this week??


Red Hat Had a Profitable Fourth Quarter, But Earnings Were Down

Red Hat reported its fourth quarter earnings today, and the news was mixed. Its earnings fell 27 percent compared to the previous year's fourth quarter, from $22 million to $16 million. However, full-year sales were $652.6 million, up 25 percent from $523 million over the previous full year. There were several other bright spots, and the company beat analyst's estimates. Overall, Red Hat continues to defy the economic gloom with stronger results than many other companies are reporting.


Novell CEO Stresses Interoperability, Data Centers for Suse Linux 11

While Novell recently reported down earnings due in large part to shortfalls in its Linux business, Matt Asay notes that the company remains very focused on Linux. He singles out CEO Ron Hovsepian's comments today at the Open Source Business Conference on Suse Linux 11 and data centers, Novell's efforts to make Suse Linux appropriate for netbooks, and more. The thing that really caught my eye is something I wrote about recently: Novell's focus on interoperability.?


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.


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GNOME 2.26's 5 best features. It has solid Exchange/Outlook mail compatibility, improved CD/DVD burning, better support for multiple monitors, and more.

Is Ballmer conceding victory to Linux netbooks? He acknowledges that buyers are extra sensitive to prices now.

French police switch from Windows to Linux. Department cuts costs by 70 percent.

Sun deal could make IBM unbeatable in Unix server market. It would give IBM nearly two-thirds share of the Unix systems business.

Red Hat's JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 - Portfolio Edition is now available. It adds Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms.



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Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 to combat rival browsers. It's the company's response to a bitter battle for market share.

Open source share growing in netbook market. Linux has 10 percent of the hottest new PC category. Here's why that's disruptive.

Red Hat chairman prescribes open source to solve state's economic woes. He says it could improve North Carolina's competitiveness.

Top 10 open source game projects to revive. These titles just need a little TLC.

Create BlackBerry applications with open source tools. Part 3 of this series focuses on creating a social networking application.



Behind Red Hat's Consistency: A Surprising Concentration on Investing

Savio Rodrigues is out with a very interesting post on Red Hat's financial consistency. Long story short, he concludes that over the past two years a whopping 48 percent of Red Hat's income before taxes is classified as Other Income. Specifically, this refers to interest income the company generates and capital gains on investments, and it's clear that the mix between this type of income and earnings generated from the company's core software business are about evenly matched. Is this good or bad?


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Top open source web commerce apps. From Zen Cart to PrestaShop, survey respondents picked the free winners here.

Nokia updates Qt open-source developer platform. It's the first major update to the cross-platform application framework since the Trolltech acquisition.

The real reason for Microsoft's TomTom lawsuit. Was there intent to force Tom Tom to violate the GPL?

Red Hat's JBoss draws patent suit. A small software company filed a lawsuit on Wednesday.

GENIVI no threat to Microsoft in near term. The alliance's open source in-vehicle infotainment platform isn't at odds with Microsoft's plans.