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November 27, 2005
Open Source Profit
It used to be when one mentioned the word Open Source it immediately conjured images of Linux as the OS of choice, and often datacenter administrators playing fast and loose. In this Search Open Source article Jack Loftus discusses how Open Source is now very much on the minds of CIOs, in areas as diverse as ERP, browsers, and CRM.
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November 17, 2005
Google, Oregon + Portland State
As part of Google's supporing Open Source initiative, they have recently announced a $350,000 project with Oregon State and Portland State Universities. Also check out their summer of code project. Good for the community, and certainly good for Google.
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November 11, 2005
War of the Databases?
This zdnet blogger argues Ingres is the real threat and that a database war is brewing. There is real venture money behind this. What with Oracle buying Innobase, SQL Server 2005 newly out, and MySQL 5.0 now in production. But there also seems to be some excitement in the ERP space. At Openworld in October, Oracle mentioned Salesforce.com as a significant threat, but what about the Open Source Sequoia ERP? This newswire argues that Open Source ERP will drive Open Source database adoption. But the truth is that many of these open source apps can and will support Oracle on the backend, and I would argue as they scale will really require Oracle.
Interestingly there are other companies out there that are betting on Open Source for HA. That's a big question, and one that remains unanswered.
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November 10, 2005
Everyone on the OpenDoc Train?
OpenDocument now has even more support from industry heavies. The ODF Summit hosted by IBM and Sun Microsystems was attended by Oracle, Novell, Google, RedHat, Adobe, CA, Corel, Nokia, and others. Quite a lineup behind a new document standard. OpenDocument is important, as it allows any company to develop applications which support those formats, leveling playing field, and potentially loosening Microsoft's stranglehold over the desktop.
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November 02, 2005
Oracle's FREE Database
It seems as incredible to us as anyone I'm sure, but also particularly prescient. We've talked about the intersection of Oracle and Open Source since 2000 when it wasn't the topic of the day. In recent news however, things have changed quite a bit.
First of all Oracle announced in early October it was buying Innobase the company behind a big transactional component of MySQL. And now this week they've also announced their Express Edition of 10g. We confess to not having fully reviewed the Express Edition to see what features are there and so on. But the trend seems clear, and welcome.
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