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Submission + - The mainframe isn't dead after all (interopsystems.com)

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on Thursday August 21, 2008 @04:29PM

willdavid writes: "Report by Jeff Gould, Interop Systems: Last week I had the occasion to visit SHARE, the premier mainframe conference, which was held in San Jose just down the road from where I live. Based on what I saw, there is one thing I can tell you for sure, and that is that Cobol is not dead. And neither is the mainframe. When I mentioned to one of my friends that I had been to SHARE, he joked that it must have looked like an AARP convention. But this turned out not to be so. While there were certainly a few 60-somethings strolling around the halls, the under 40 generation was also well represented. What struck me the most was not the advanced age of the people but the relative youth of a lot of the software being discussed. http://www1.interopsystems.com/analysis/the-mainframe-isnt-dead-after-all.html"

Submission + - Microsoft's savvy open source move (seekingalpha.com)

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on Friday April 04, 2008 @12:43PM

willdavid writes: "Article by Joe Panettieri (Seeking Alpha): Repeat after me: Microsoft Windows is wildly popular for running open source applications. Skeptics may not believe that statement, but it's true. Whether its the Firefox Web browser or the latest open source server application, chances are there's a very popular version for Windows. And Microsoft wants to keep it that way. In fact, a small but strategic Silicon Valley company is helping Microsoft to certify open source applications for Windows Server 2008. http://seekingalpha.com/article/71145-microsoft-s-savvy-open-source-move"

Submission + - How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 (technet.com)

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on Friday February 29, 2008 @11:37AM

willdavid writes: "By Sam Ramji (Port 25): When I think about what works really well in open source development and technology, the following things stand out... Overall, we've learned and continue to learn from open source development principles. These are making their way into the mindset, development practices, and ultimately into the products Microsoft brings to market. http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/02/27/opening-windows-server-2008.aspx"

Submission + - Holy Halftones! Microsoft Launches Superhero Comic (informationweek.com)

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on Thursday January 31, 2008 @12:23PM

willdavid writes: "Paul McDougall reports inInformationWeek on Microsoft's new comics. Are we hooked? The Heroes Happen Here comic strips (http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/comic/default.mspx) are being created by Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who helped revitalize the Batman series. Tech workers who in the middle of the night fix a downed server or take on a computer virus don't really have extraordinary powers. It just seems that way. But a new comic book has debuted in which IT pros literally are superheroes. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100613&subSection=News"

Submission + - McAfee warning over ambiguous open source licenses (informationweek.com) 1

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on Friday January 04, 2008 @01:26PM

willdavid writes: "Article by Paul McDougall in InformationWeek: McAfee frequently cautions other companies about the latest bugs and computer viruses, but the security software maker is now warning that its own business could be in jeopardy — not from some form of malware but from the fact that its products rely heavily on open source software. In its recently published annual report, McAfee warned investors that the "ambiguous" license terms governing the open source software it uses "may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our products. "To the extent that we use 'open source' software, we face risks," McAfee warned. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=205207799"

Submission + - Microsoft-Novell: Has The Deal Made a Difference? (internetnews.com)

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on Friday November 09, 2007 @04:31PM

willdavid writes: "By Sean Michael Kerner (Internetnews.com): It was just over a year ago that Microsoft partnered with Linux vendor Novell, turning the Linux world on its ears. The companies now claim that they've signed 30 new customers to the deal, including Costco Wholesale Corp., Southwest Airlines Co. and the City of Los Angeles. How much impact the deal actually has had on the marketplace is, however, still up for debate. The deal between Novell and Microsoft allows interoperability between Windows and Linux and provides a patent covenant, ensuring Microsoft will not sue Novell's SUSE Linux users over alleged intellectual property infringement by open source applications. Regardless of what impact the deal has triggered in the marketplace over the past year, ultimately it's about meeting market requirements. "The fact is that the vast majority of businesses do not want homogeneous IT infrastructures," Pund-IT analyst King said. "Instead, they want to be able to better and more easily manage their IT assets no matter what hardware or OS platforms they buy. "Microsoft and Novell deserve congratulations on their one-year anniversary, but the needs of Linux and Windows customers are as much responsible for the partnership as the companies themselves. " http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3710096"

Submission + - GPLv3 shunned, survey says (infoworld.com)

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on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @02:06PM

willdavid writes: "This report by Paul Krill in InfoWorld is interesting: Just 6 percent of developers working with open-source software have adopted the new GNU General Public License version 3, an Evans Data survey has found. Also, two-thirds say they will not adopt GPLv3 anytime in the next year, and 43 percent say they will never implement the new license. Almost twice as many would be less likely to join a project that uses GPLv3 than would be likely to join, Evans said in a statement released on Monday. http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/014044.html"

Submission + - Top 25 hottest open-source projects at Microsoft (com.com)

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on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @12:20PM

willdavid writes: "By Matt Asay (CNETNews Blogs): Bayarsaikhan has posted the top 25 most active open-source projects on Microsoft's Codeplex site. Codeplex is interesting to me for several reasons, but primarily because it demonstrates something that I've argued for many years now: open source on the Windows platform is a huge opportunity for Microsoft. It is something for the company to embrace, not despise. http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9761998-7.html?ta g=head"

Submission + - Cross-platform Microsoft (zdnet.com)

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on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @11:08AM

willdavid writes: "By John Carroll (ZDNet Blogs): Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen. http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1737"

Comment Re:Leading Write Up (Score 1) 118

by willdavid on Monday July 16, 2007 @01:49PM (#19878641) Attached to: Open Source and the "Xen" of Xen

Actually the write-up does refer to Suse and Red Hat and the whole point of the strategy is to be able to build revenue as a company and not lose out to major Linux distributors (like Novell and Red Hat).

Submission + - Open Source and the "Xen" of Xen (interopnews.com)

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on Monday July 16, 2007 @12:15PM

willdavid writes: "In this follow-up story by Jeff Gould, he talks to XenSource CTO Simon Crosby. Usually we hear about how open source provides freedoms for end users. However, this article talks about the difficulty a small software developer has with an open source license, in particular, the need to prevent Red Hat, IBM or Novell from running away with all the business revenue. http://www.interopnews.com/news/open-source-and-th e-xen-of-xen.html"

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