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Red Hat? More like red hot

Posted March 30, 2012 - 2:30 pm

Shares of open source software and services vendor Red Hat are at a 12-year high following a strong fourth-quarter earnings report.
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Why your Android phone probably isn't upgrading to 4.0

Posted December 26, 2011 - 11:57 am

You'd think the world's best-selling smartphone of 2010 would have priority in upgrading to the latest and greatest Android system. You'd be wrong.
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Helping build open source software can help your career

Posted December 6, 2011 - 10:32 am

Some techies become part of open source communities and develop professional quality software for free. Then, when the software is production ready, they give it away. This is the nature of open source systems. Participating in these projects is not only good for the world; it can also be good for you.
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Cloudera lands $40 million venture round

Posted November 7, 2011 - 2:10 pm

Cloudera, the vendor of Hadoop-based software for managing Big Data, scores $40 million in venture funding.
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Appcelerator scores $15 million funding round

Posted November 1, 2011 - 4:00 pm

Mobile apps development platform vendor lands $15 million in venture funding for expansion.
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Facebook makes its news all about the data center

Posted October 31, 2011 - 9:45 pm

Is Facebook the new data center poster child?
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Will the real anti-Facebook please stand up?

Posted August 25, 2011 - 2:40 pm

Ready for yet another social network? Diaspora hopes to battle Google+ for your attention -- and your privacy.
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Open-source PaaS startup gets $8 million in funding

Posted August 11, 2011 - 11:10 am

Cloud-based PHP "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) vendor AppFog on Thursday announced an $8 million round of venture funding.
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Red Hat shares rise on Q1 earnings gain

Posted June 22, 2011 - 6:19 pm

Enterprise open-source software and services market leader Red Hat on Wednesday reported a 42 percent increase in fiscal first-quarter profits.
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Google loses Linux patent lawsuit, ordered to pay $5 million in damages

Posted April 21, 2011 - 10:54 pm

Google has been ordered by a jury to pay a small Texas-based company $5 million in damages for allegedly infringing on a Linux patent, a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for other companies using the Linux kernel.
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Oracle Magnanimous: Open Office to be purely open source

Posted April 19, 2011 - 1:28 pm

Oracle has discovered it can't profit much from commercializing OpenOffice, so it will generously return to the promises it made to keep OpenOffice open source.
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Microsoft's 'open' cloud addition doesn't mean what you think

Posted April 13, 2011 - 1:00 pm

At the same time VMware was placing a big bet on open-source cloud software, Microsoft barely entered the game.
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Google holds back Android Honeycomb; Asus releases the source code

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:04 am

Google is holding back Android v. 3 to tune it for smartphones, not establish control; elsewhere, Asus posted the Honeycomb source code on its tablet product page.
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At 20, Linux gets more enterprise-capable, and just a little bit smug

Posted April 7, 2011 - 11:56 am

The Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of Linux, which underpins much of the Internet and many of the smart devices revolutionizing commercial IT.
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Google tries to become Apple

Posted March 31, 2011 - 4:02 pm

The closer Google gets to establishing Android as the OS to beat in smartphones, the more it seems to want to become Apple.
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Red Hat shares soar after hours following Q4 results

Posted March 23, 2011 - 6:07 pm

Shares of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) skyrocketed almost 11 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday following the release of the open-source software vendor's fiscal fourth quarter earnings report. (Also see: Red Hat Defends Kernel Code Obfuscation)
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Cloud computing inches toward open source

Posted March 17, 2011 - 1:27 pm

With backing and additional services from Rackspace and Cloud.com, OpenStack may be a reasonable open-source alternative someday; just not yet.
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Is Microsoft helping HTML5 or trying to co-opt it?

Posted December 21, 2010 - 5:30 pm

Microsoft leaped into support of HTML5 with online resources to help developers, and morale-weakening descriptions of it as "unstable" after quick turnaround on Silverlight.
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Oracle puts OpenOffice in the cloud, but not for nothing

Posted December 15, 2010 - 7:07 pm

Oracle announced it is making a version of OpenOffice available through the cloud, but appears to be offering only paid versions of the open-source suite.
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FSF essay argues freedom over quality

Posted December 13, 2010 - 11:47 am

An examination of the true merits of collaboration turns into an excuse for the Free Software Foundation to take a whack at the open source community, and in so doing downgrades quality over freedom. How well will that sit for most end users?
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'Free' may do more for cloud than VMware, Microsoft or Amazon ever did

Posted November 11, 2010 - 6:17 pm

Open-source version of Rackspace's OpenStack cloud platform may make core functions common enough to help standardize the excessively heterogeneous cloud market.
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Oracle may be righteous vs. SAP, but open sourcers call it the oppressor

Posted November 10, 2010 - 1:40 pm

Since buying Sun in 2009, Oracle has made huge changes to Sun properties, among them changing open-source projects in ways that have the best developers bailing.
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For once, Microsoft "anti-competitive" practice really is a benefit

Posted November 8, 2010 - 12:11 pm

Trend Micro is complaining that Microsoft's free anti-malware gets updated via the ubiquitous Windows Update, though it genuinely benefits users.
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Open source vendor battles VMware lock-in no one else sees

Posted October 22, 2010 - 12:31 pm

Cloud.com built support for Hyper-V into open-source cloud software in response to rebellion from VMware users no one else sees.
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Why Microsoft is Being Nicer to Open Source

Posted August 30, 2010 - 12:34 pm

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.
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