Open Source Pulls in $1.8 Billion
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Adoption of standalone open source software is accelerating, say researchers.
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Sun Microsystems will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited Web sites in the world.
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InfoWorld - The introduction of a new version of its Linux distribution and new JBoss software helped Red Hat increase profit to $16.2 million, or $0.08 a share, on revenue of $118.9 million in its fiscal first quarter ended May 31, the company reported Wednesday.
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Is open source becoming the dumping ground for no-longer-wanted software, sort of like a Salvation Army dropoff point for programs instead of old clothes?
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It's not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that's what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL.  Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion ??? helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash.  But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun's move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups. read more
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ActiveGrid lands multimillion-dollar funding for plan to use open-source tools, low-cost servers for Web applications.
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HP is giving away a lot of value related to open source adoption.  Here's why this is a good strategy.
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InfoWorld - Separate reports from The 451 Group and Evans Data this week confirm what seems obvious: open-source software is impacting commercial software companies and continues to gain adoption worldwide.
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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The new Open Source Software Resource Centre will be funded with $1.2 million over three years and will try to promote open-source software by establishing a portal for exchanging information on the subject and initiating proof-of-concept projects.
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Open source has many good uses.  Beating up one's competitors shouldn't be the primary one.
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Open source doesn't necessarily automatically translate into better paid support for customers.  But it does offer a lot more options and aligns customers with vendors more tightly.
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Will Sun's $1 billion buyout of open source database vendor SQL drive down pricing on enterprise databases from IBM, Microsoft of Oracle?
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Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.
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Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software.
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One's head spins thinking about Microsoft's unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion for Yahoo. Yahoo has been a major figure in the open source world for a long time. It sponsors events, participates in countless development projects, and encourages its own engineers to do open source work. And, of course, it uses countless open source code bases as well. read more
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Acquisition of one of the most successful open-source software companies is a bold move for Sun, which has embraced open source to try to boost revenue.