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- Oracle and Linux
- CodeGear adamant it will keep the faith
Open Source Blog: June 2008 Archives
Iona bought by Progress Software
June 26, 2008
I must be clairvoyant. It was only last week that I wrote how, “[Iona’s] board is apparently currently evaluating... ‘strategic alternatives’ for the firm, no doubt thanks to ongoing concerns that its more modern technologies (Artix, FUSE etc) are not doing quite enough to make up for the gradual decline in its mature Orbix business (down 5% year over year in its latest quarter, to be precise).”
And so it came to pass: Iona has been acquired by Progress Software… [click continue reading for more on this story]…
Stoking the open source rumour mill
June 24, 2008
Q. Which open source data integration firm will announce on Monday that its technology has been optimized to run on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?
A. I can't tell you until Monday -- I'm embargoed, baby.
[Hint: I'm not talking about the news yesterday that web infrastructure monitoring firm Hyperic can now monitor five key services in the Amazon EC2 cloud.]
Open source solution to ‘dirty data’ problem?
The problem of so-called ‘dirty data’ – data that contains duplications, omissions or other errors – has been a serious issue in corporate IT for many a year. Analyst firm Gartner said in March last year that three-quarters of large enterprises will make little to no progress towards improving data quality until 2010, potentially costing large firms millions of dollars.
But is there an open source solution to the problem? [click Continue Reading for more on this entry]
Open source solves UK cancer charity challenges
June 19, 2008
There are hundreds of software implementations completed every day, but since it’s a sunny day in London, here’s one to warm the cockles of the rest of the open source fraternity…
Iona slaps Apache on the back
June 18, 2008
Dublin, Ireland-headquartered Iona says it “commends” the Apache CXF community on the graduation of CXF from incubator to full project status at the Apache Software Foundation…[click continue reading for more on this blog entry]...
Sourcefire finds new CEO at Citrix
Open source security firm Sourcefire named John C. Burris its new CEO, effective July 14...
Intalio open source BPM User Con this week
June 16, 2008
Open source business process management (BPM) firm Intalio is hosting its User Conference from June 17-18 at the W Hotel in San Francisco. CEO Ismael Ghalimi invites you BPM types to get down there. If you go along, drop me a line to let me know the buzz, as I can't make it.
Register: http://intaliocon.com
Sourcefire readies Snort 3, comments on Barracuda offer
June 13, 2008
I had a chat with open source intrusion prevention firm Sourcefire's founder and CTO Martin Roesch earlier in the week - I thought it was a good time to have a catch-up, what with his company having just rejected Barracuda's unsolicited $188m offer to buy the firm, and it being about to launch Snort 3.0. [Click Continue Reading for more on this entry.]
Sourcefire CTO and founder Marty Roesch: talks fast, codes faster.
18 months into the job, Red Hat’s CEO…
June 09, 2008
18 months into his new job, Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst says running an open source company hasn’t changed him a bit:
Pic credit: florena on Flickr, CC licence.
James Whitehurst took over from former Red Hat CEO Matt Szulik on January 1st 2007. Szulik, who took over as CEO from Bob Young in 1999 just a few months after Red Hat’s IPO, said he was stepping down due to family health issues.
Whitehurst was formerly Delta Air Lines' chief operating officer.
The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
June 05, 2008
[As voted by moi. And yes, you have to click Continue Reading below to see them. I don't make the rules.]
Torvalds: not one to mince his words...
Oracle and Linux
Oracle plays down its Linux capabilities. Pic credit: Kevin on Flickr CC licence.
CodeGear adamant it will keep the faith
June 02, 2008
CodeGear, the former developer tools division of Borland, was acquired by Embarcadero Technologies for $23m last month. But while many observers have in the past dismissed CodeGear as clinging on to older technologies and failing to move with the times as much as some of its peers, the truth is a little more complex than that.
It’s true that under Borland’s stewardship, it seemed that CodeGear (formerly just known as Borland’s tools business) was always destined to be the poor step-sister of Borland’s far grander application lifecycle management (ALM) vision.
But as Jason Vokes, EMEA senior director sales and marketing told me in the days before the Embarcadero deal was announced, “CodeGear is far from struggling. We have always been cash flow positive and operationally profitable.” [Hit the Continue Reading link below for more on this entry, including news of a possible return of Delphi for Linux.]
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