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Mar

2010

451 CAOS Links 2010.03.05

Posted by The 451 Group on Fri 05 Mar 2010 16:25 UTC
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Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.

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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.

# The OSI categorically rejected the …

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Feb

2010

451 CAOS Links 2010.02.02

Posted by The 451 Group on Tue 02 Feb 2010 16:38 UTC
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Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS. The UK’s updated OSS strategy. And more.

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Oracle’s plans for Sun’s OSS
# Oracle’s MySQL strategy slide.

# eWeek reported that database thought leaders are divided on Oracle MySQL.

# Savio Rodrigues and Computerworld on Oracle’s plans for MySQL, other open source assets.

# Zack Urlocker is leaving Oracle/Sun/MySQL.

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Jan

2010

451 CAOS Links 2010.01.15

Posted by The 451 Group on Fri 15 Jan 2010 16:41 UTC
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VMware confirms Zimbra buy. Facebook sponsors Apache Foundation. And more.

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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask

# VMware confirmed its acquisition of Zimbra from Yahoo.

# Facebook became a gold sponsor of the Apache Foundation and outlined its …

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Jan

2009

Commercial open source community strategies in 2009 and beyond

Posted by The 451 Group on Mon 12 Jan 2009 16:43 UTC
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I wrote last week about the commercial open source business strategies that I expect to dominate in 2009.

The flipside to that is the commercial open source community strategy. You simply can’t have one without the other, and I expect community strategies will be a hot topic in 2009 and beyond.

Savio Rodrigues wrote recently that “By the end of 2008, virtually every successful open source vendor has a fairly tightly controlled development process and this hasn’t hurt their revenue growth.”

Based on my prediction that proprietary licensing strategies will be increasingly important in the next two years I am inclined to agree with him.

However, I am also …

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