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Companies and independent developers have been using open source for years now, with little regard to the old FUD that said "if you use this software, little Stallman-like demons will eat your soul!" But the growth of open source has led to some interesting scaling problems, and the reason why Microsoft no longer openly uses such FUD.

Open core might raise some eyebrows, but the fact remains there are few ways to inject funding into the open source ecosystem.

Oracle is a top-of-the-fleet carrier: the cockpit is filled with specialized controls, and it assumes operation by a big crew. For development, tuning, and problem diagnosis, though, you sometimes need to "start the engines" as quietly and simply as possible. Where's the "on" switch for such a situation?

As Linux succeeds technically and commercially in enterprise, cloud, and embedded space, are there no new frontiers to explore?

Initially, there was a lot of pushback for the notion of cadence, mostly along the lines of "who does this guy think he is?" This was particularly true of the reaction from some of the more vocal quarters of the Debian community, the development team Canonical to which initially reached out. This made sense, because Ubuntu is a Debian-based distribution. But the reaction was far from harmonious.

At the Interop New York conference this week I've seen a lot of product and service demos. Many have shown mobile enterprise applications, but most have danced around the issue of which handset is going to be used for delivering the app.

For some IT professionals, “people” networking can be harder than getting their CCIE certification...