VA Software Rides Publishing to Profits
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It converts to online publisher and shows it can make money from mostly free services.
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TechWeb - Enterprise Voice Sites allows businesses to build and deploy pre-packaged IVR solutions on a pay-as-you-go usage model.
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Analysts and authors expect Adobe to release a new version of its publishing software soon.
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There are two options for publishing on the Internet in a managed way: Blogs or expensive content management products that are complicated to implement. Squarespace is the middle ground. -The Washington Post
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The publishing industry struggled to sell more copies last year than it did the year before, according to a new report.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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The News Corp. publishing division appears to have a winning title on its hands.
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Some business software vendors are determined to steer their own ships in a sea of acquisitions.
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Just as Microsoft&#39;s (MSFT ) core businesses -- its Windows and Office monopolies -- are slowing down, it has found a new engine for growth: server software.
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A Win/Mac developer recently asked me what I thought about his plan to create a binary of his application and sell it to interested Linux sound and music people. He asked with some trepidation, having already received a rather critical chorus of objection from some overly enthusiastic Linux users. This man's work is excellent and his software already runs nicely under Wine.read more
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Business publishers have turned out a steady torrent of books about outsmarting, out-hustling, and outmaneuvering -- not to mention smashing, trouncing, and pulverizing -- the competition.
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Four publishers band together to boost their online ad sales.
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The maker of open-source software said higher revenue from subscriptions for its Linux operating software propelled its results.
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Open Text's major software acquisition takes flight.
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VMware is the early leader in a fast-growing market for virtual-machine software, putting it on a collision course with Microsoft.
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Writers struggling to find a publisher are taking the high-tech, grass-roots approach.
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(InfoWorld) - One of the survivors of the early days of Linux has changed its name and folded its software division in favor of doing business entirely on the Web. VA Software said Thursday it has changed its name to Sourceforge Inc. and will focus the company exclusively on its Web properties, such as the SourceForge.net site that hosts open-source projects and the Slashdot news aggregation site, which is popular with technology enthusiasts. The company said the moves are in response to the dynamics of Web 2.0, the new business model in which traditional software is beginning to give way to advertising-funded Web-based services. VA Software last month quietly sold its enterprise software business to CollabNet, a company that offers development software for geographically distributed teams, in consideration for an equity ownership in that company. The newly branded Sourceforge will make its revenue from advertising sales and product sales from its geek merchandise e-commerce site, ThinkGeek. Other properties that are part of Sourceforge include another open-source project site, Freshmeat, and enterprise Linux resource site Linux.com. VA Software began its life as VA Research in 1993 and later (and more notoriously)Â became VA Linux Systems, one of the early distributors of Linux whose stock jumped to $299 on the day of its December, 1999 IPO. But its Linux business soon flagged, and the company had more success in software development and acquiring the Web properties that still operate today. SourceForge.net in particular is a successful site for the company and one of company's the most recognizable brand names. The site hosts more than 100,000 open-source projects and has more than 1 million registered users. Sourceforge also reported is third quarter fiscal 2007 financial results Thursday. Revenue was $10.3 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2007, a 30 percent increase from the $7.9 million the company reported for the same period last year. The company reported net income of $6.5 million mostly from the sale of its software business. After years of not turning a profit, VA Software recorded its first quarter of profitability in its second fiscal quarter of 2006, which ended Jan. 31, 2007.