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Sprint needs a hit. Sprint, the beleaguered mobile carrier, announced that it will start selling HTC Hero, a touchscreen phone based on Google?s Android OS, on Oct. 11th for $179.

Google Android: Is the party over? It's open source, hardware-agnostic, and developer-friendly, but why are developers unhappy?

Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD? Open source pundits recently held a smackdown debating the merits of various open source licenses, and here were the highlights.

Useful Ubuntu links. After helping a friend switch to Ubuntu, a veteran compiles a list of helpful sites to know about.

Red Hat CEO: Choose flexibility or Larry Ellison. At Red Hat Summit, CEO Jim Whitehurst took on Oracle's inflexibility as his company launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.



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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.


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?


Despite Dire Predictions, Open Source and SaaS Remain Promising

Matt Asay has a good analysis up today about Goldman Sach's report predicting that things are about to get much worse for the tech industry. The worst of the IT spending slowdown likely remains in front of us as we start the clock on slashed 2009 budgets, says the report. We forecast 0% revenue growth for our group, below consensus at 5%, and 1% earnings growth, below Street at 2%. In addition, Goldman Sachs is predicting that revenues will stream primarily to large, established software vendors: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Symantec, and CA. I agree with Matt, though, that open source and SaaS (software as a service) players still stand to do well.


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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.....



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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.....



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?