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Comment Re:I Don't Quite Understand (Score 2, Informative) 174

by AlexGr on Friday June 26, 2009 @10:32AM (#28482161) Attached to: Microsoft-Backed Firm Says IBM Is Anticompetitive

If you want to hear T3's side of it, there's a good article written by Steve Friedman, T3's president -- The T3 Technologies Story: http://openmainframe.org/featured-articles/the-t3-technologies-story.html

Submission + - Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard (interopnews.com)

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on Monday October 27, 2008 @03:30PM

AlexGr writes: "The surprising word out of Redmond is that Microsoft is about to make a small but remarkable overture toward the open standards world. They are about to embrace a very interesting though relatively little known enterprise messaging standard known as the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, or AMQP for short. Red Hat, a founding member of the AMQP working group, reacted with this welcome message: http://bryanche.blogspot.com/2008/10/welcome-to-amqp-microsoft.html. What is AMQP, and why should anybody care whether Microsoft adopts it? Suffice it is to say that AMQP is to high-value, reliable business messaging what SMTP is to e-mail. http://www.interopnews.com/analysis/microsoft-puts-a-foot-in-the-open-standards-pond-with-amqp.html"

Submission + - Is Ubuntu selling out or growing up? (interopnews.com)

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on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @08:56AM

AlexGr writes: "Article by Jeff Gould in Interop News: Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is really an open source software company any more. Yes, yes, I realize Ubuntu is not a company at all but a free Linux distribution, GPL'd and open source by definition. But still, the Ubuntu distro is sponsored by a traditional for profit company, The answer that has recently emerged to this question is, "yes and no." Yes, of course, because Ubuntu's web site promises that the distro "will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates." But Ubuntu the enterprise ecosystem — understood as the collection of desktops and servers running Ubuntu in a given organization — is not. http://www.interopnews.com/news/is-ubuntu-selling-out-or-growing-up.html"

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by AlexGr on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @11:53PM

Submission + - Can Sun make MySQL pay? (interopnews.com)

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on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @01:14AM

AlexGr writes: "Jeff Gould presents an interesting analysis in Interop News: How can an open source software company with $70 million or so in revenue and no profits to speak of be worth $1 billion? That's the question Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has been trying to answer since he bought MySQL last week. Like most commercial open source companies, MySQL makes money by enticing well-heeled customers to pay for an enterprise version of its product that comes with more bells and whistles than the community version it gives away for free. It appears though that the additional features of the Enterprise version are not enough to compensate for the revenue-destroying effects of the free Community alternative. What else could explain the surprising fact that MySQL has quietly filled out its open source portfolio with a closed source proprietary management software tool known as Enterprise Software Monitor? http://www.interopnews.com/news/can-sun-make-mysql-pay.html"

Submission + - How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat? (interopnews.com)

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on Sunday November 04, 2007 @01:08AM

AlexGr writes: "Jeff Gould raises an interesting question in Interop News: Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is also completely free, as in beer. CentOS provides no paid support, but it does track Red Hat updates and patches closely, and usually makes them available within a few hours or at most a few days of the upstream provider, which it refers to for legal reasons as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor." Free support for CentOS can be found in numerous places around the web, and a few third parties offer modestly priced paid support for those who want it. http://www.interopnews.com/news/how-badly-is-centos-hurting-red-hat.html"

Submission + - Open-source community's double standard on MySQL (com.com)

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on Monday August 13, 2007 @11:29AM

AlexGr writes: "Matt Asay raises a really good point in his CNET News Blog: Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora. Howls of protest and endless hand-wringing ensued: How dare Red Hat not give everything away for free? Enter 2007. MySQL decides to comply with the GNU General Public License and only give its tested, certified Enterprise code to those who pay for the service underlying that code (gasp!). Immediately cries of protest are raised, How dare MySQL not give everything away for free? http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9758671-7.html?ta g=head"

Submission + - On the rPath to virtual containerization (interopnews.com)

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on Monday July 23, 2007 @12:36PM

AlexGr writes: "By Jeff Gould (Interop News): It's becoming increasingly clear that the most important use of virtualization is not to consolidate hardware boxes but to protect applications from the vagaries of the operating environments they run on. It's all about "containerization," to employ a really ugly but useful word. Until fairly recently this was anything but the consensus view. On the contrary, the idea that virtualization is mostly about consolidation has been conventional wisdom ever since IDC started touting VMware's roaring success as one of the reasons behind last year's slowdown in server hardware sales. http://www.interopnews.com/news/on-the-rpath-to-vi rtual-containerization.html"

Submission + - Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess (informationweek.com)

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on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @10:57PM

AlexGr writes: "By Alexander Wolfe (InformationWeek): Remember the 1980s worries about how the "forking" of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux, where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/ 2007/07/too_many_linux.html"

Submission + - Linux creator calls GPLv3 authors 'hypocrites' (informationweek.com)

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on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @02:40PM

AlexGr writes: "We hear conflicting tales regarding Linus Torvalds acceptance of GPLv3. For example, this one by Paul McDougall (InformationWeek): Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics — the latest sign of a growing schism in the open source community between business-minded developers like Torvalds and free software purists. In an online post, Torvalds slammed executives at the Free Software Foundation, likening their mind-set to that of "religious fanatics and totalitarian states." Harsh! http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/ 2007/07/linux_creator_c.html"

Submission + - Desperately Seeking Xen (interopnews.com)

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on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @08:59PM

AlexGr writes: "Good article by Jeff Gould (Peerstone Research) in Interop News: What's going on with Xen, the open source hypervisor that was supposed to give VMware a run for its money? I can't remember how many IT trade press articles, blog posts and vendor white papers I've read about Xen in the last few years. If I had a dollar for every piece ever published about Xen, I'd be... well, not quite as rich as the Google kids, but still very well off. The vast majority of those articles — including a few I've written myself — take it as an article of faith that Xen's paravirtualizing technical approach and open source business model are inherently superior to the closed source alternatives from VMware or Microsoft. http://www.interopnews.com/news/desperately-seekin g-xen.html"

Submission + - Microsoft hires Director of Linux Interoperability (nwsource.com)

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on Friday June 08, 2007 @10:12AM

AlexGr writes: "From Todd Bishop (SeattlePI.com): Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its "Director of Linux Interoperability" and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab — and his name will be familiar to people in the open-source community. In an e-mail late Thursday night, a Microsoft representative said the role will be filled by Tom Hanrahan, who was most recently the director of engineering at the Linux Foundation, the group created through the recent combination of the Free Standards Group and the Open Source Development Labs. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archi ves/116377.asp"

Submission + - MS sees no conflict with its patent initiatives (eweek.com)

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on Thursday May 31, 2007 @12:52PM

AlexGr writes: "By Peter Galli (eWeek): Microsoft does not believe there is an inherent contradiction between its recent statements that free and open-source software infringes on 235 of its patents, and the veiled legal threats that go along with that, and its attempts to reach out and build bridges with the open-source community. "In fact, one makes the other possible, especially at a time like this, when interoperability is so important. Microsoft recognizes the importance of interoperability, which is why we are doing the things we are in our products, why we created the Interoperability Executive Customer Council, and why we are listening to customers," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's vice president of intellectual property and licensing. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2138970,00.as p"

Submission + - A cynic rips open source

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on Sunday May 20, 2007 @11:41PM

AlexGr writes: "Howard Anderson chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was him against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell. The subject was: Do enterprise users really want open source? http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/051007 anderson.html"

Submission + - Open Source Goals Outlined in Think Tank Report

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on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @12:59PM

AlexGr writes: "By Kurt Mackie (Application Development Trends) In March of this year, representatives from more than 100 software companies met to discuss the state of open-source software. Their conclusions are described in a 16-page report, "2007 Open Source Think Tank: The Future of Commercial Open Source," which is free to download (PDF). The Open Source Think Tank report contains some surprising conclusions. For instance, participants noted a growing similarity in methods between open-source and proprietary software development. They predicted some kind of convergence, where the best of both approaches gets adopted in each camp. http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=20631"

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