Ingersoll-Rand's Ins and Outs
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Caught in the midst of a makeover, Ingersoll-Rand checks in with a so-so quarter.
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A search for investing opportunities in military and defense.
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RAND report examines attack scenarios. One suggestion is eliminating long ticket lines in terminal lobbies. By Ian Gregor and David Zahniser.
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The road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he believes in biofuels. From Wired magazine.
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How to outmaneuver the wizards of Wall Street.
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This book excerpt uses an example sales campaign to introduce the Java Data Mining application programming interface.  From data preparation to modeling to evalution and deployment, the short example gives a feel for the business problem and solution.
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Diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co Ltd. said it agreed to acquire Trane Inc., an indoor heating and air conditioning systems maker, for about $10.1 billion.
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Lock maker Kryptonite and parent Ingersoll-Rand face at least five proposed class-action lawsuits in the United States and Canada after admitting this week that popular
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Heavy equipment maker Ingersoll-Rand Co. said Thursday that it will sell its energy conversion unit Dresser-Rand to private equity firm First Reserve Corp.
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A Fool traces the evolution of the ETF market.
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Ingersoll-Rand Co. on Thursday said third-quarter profit jumped 54 percent, as revenue increased and the company sold assets as part of its transformation into a diversified industrial company.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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Welcome to the fourth installment in a series examining how the ideas of great philosophers can relate to the art of investing.
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The Story: What?s in a name? Back in the days of the Gingrich revolution, the nastiest label you could pin on a politician was ?liberal.? And now that open source has become an essential technology, the quickest way to get a rise out of an open source executive (and to get flamed on dozens of blogs) is to say his or her company is ?commercial.?[ Slideshow: 2007's top underreported tech stories ]                                                    No matter what you call them, open source companies have been steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software subscription model into their business. First it was support, and now it is software access. Say it ain?t so, Linus.MySQL, for example, will charge users of its enterprise edition to use the code, not just for support as has been the traditional open source business model. ?We are looking for ways to extend our offerings in a way that can be monetized,? bluntly says Kaj Arno, the company?s VP for community.Chander Kant, founder of the open source storage software company Zmanda, is likewise frank about the need to drive revenue. Speaking of the open source community as a whole, he says, ?We are not a charity. We need to monetize.?Recognizing that charging to use open source software flies in the face of the original open source premise of freely sharable code open to everyone, Arno is quick to note that the paid version of Workbench has code and features not found in the free version ? and that the free version ?is not crippled.? Arno calls the move an experiment, and acknowledges that MySQL needs to move carefully to avoid upsetting the often quick-tempered open source community.Is this a trend? Red Monk analyst Stephen O?Grady says it is: ?Ultimately when you look at a high-profile firm like MySQL embracing it, it?s difficult to conclude anything else.?InfoWorld blogger (and IBM employee) Savio Rodrigues notes another example. In a recent blog post, he looked at changes to JBoss since it was purchased by Red Hat Software and concluded: ?The Fedora/JBoss subscription is just like the software subscription business model that commercial software vendors have been using for decades.?Does that mean a company that adopts the usage-based pricing model isn?t really open-source? That?s an interesting point, since as Zmanda?s Kant acknowledges, ?the litmus test of open source is control of the code.? Open source software delivered through appliances keeps the access ? and thus control ? away from users, he notes. But code binaries distributed as software remain open to their users ? for now, at least.The Bottom Line: Have MySQL and Red Hat run away from the principles of open source? Who cares. The real point is that the open source business model is evolving away from the ?free? model and toward an alternative development approach for commercial software. If you adopted open source due to its cost, you may not save as much as you thought. If you adopted open source for the access to source code or the community-supported development approach that is supposed to result in better software, it?s not yet clear if the greater commercialization will enhance those aspects or drive away the true believers and make open source no different than the old-fashioned commercial offerings.Complete list of 2007 underreported stories: 1.? Java is becoming the new Cobol 2.? Sun Microsystems is back in the game 3.? Hackers take aim at Mac OS X 4.? There are some threats you can worry less about 5.? Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits 6.? Open source?s new commercial strategy 7.? End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives 8.? Blade servers arrive for the masses 9.? BI is dead; long live BI 10. Balance of power shifts to software buyers
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(InfoWorld) - Ingres will take different approaches to supporting soft appliances that combine its database with applications from JasperSoft and Alfresco Software. When Ingres launched its Icebreaker soft appliance, it also invited other developers to build special versions of the appliance integrating their own application software. The first of those, a BI appliance built with JasperSoft BI Suite, is now complete, and the stack is being tested by early adopters, Ingres President and COO Roger Burkhardt said Thursday. It should launch next month and probably will be named Ingres BI Appliance, he said. Ingres plans to handle the customer account and first and second-line support for the BI Appliance and is training its support staff on JasperSoft's products, he said. In return for providing third-line support, JasperSoft will get a share of the support subscription price paid for the appliance by the end-user, Burkhardt said. That price "will be a significant increase of the cost of the database alone, but it will be dramatically less expensive than combining traditional components," he said. The company will adopt different support models with different partners, he said. That will mean a larger support role for Alfresco, which is working with Ingres to integrate its enterprise content management appliance with Icebreaker. "They are expecting us to provide level one [support] and level two as well as level three," said Alfresco CEO John Powell. One of the reasons for that is the more time-critical role played by content management in the enterprise. Users might be prepared to wait while a bug in their BI report is fixed, but they will want help right away if an important document disappears from the database or transactions are no longer committed, he said. With integration work on both appliances all but done -- Powell said that "the technology is all there" for the content management appliance -- the next challenge is finding a channel to market. That will involve another level of integration as the companies look for partners to turn a vanilla content management software stack into a vertical-market-specific appliance for storing a particular kind of content, he said. The early adopters of the BI appliance will help Ingres with that challenge, Burkhardt said. Many of them are systems integrators, building particular kinds of dashboards on top of the stack. For instance, one is using it to develop a BI system for U.S. credit unions, while another is tailoring the system for reporting on IT infrastructure. Once the BI appliance is complete, Burkhardt said, work will begin on another module that will link it to Salesforce.com's hosted CRM service, allowing it to make a local mirror of all the sales data held on the Salesforce servers and then generate reports from it locally.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Ingersoll Rand, the industrial conglomerate, is near a deal to buy Trane, the air conditioning company that is the successor to American Standard, for about $10 billion.
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By Andrea Weigl, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb.