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Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again

InnoTech Conference in Austin 10/11/07

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Free tickets at
http://www.whurley.com/blog/2007/10/asdf.html

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Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Hyperic joins forces with JasperSoft to deliver reporting tool to HQ 3.1
I prefer BIRT, but Jasper will do.

Linux Today - Open Source Hardware: Birth Of A Long Tail Market?
With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape.

Open Source Unleashed: Yahoo’s […]

Three Minutes with Richard Stallman

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

PC World - Three Minutes with Richard Stallman

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Friday, September 14th, 2007

Zenoss Releases Turnkey Application, Server, and Network Management Appliances
Turning up the heat in the little 4 run for the roses

Truth Happens | BEA: The latest open source schizophrenic
BEA get religion

IBM developerWorks : Blogs : The Innovation Capitalist
EnterpriseDB letting the NYT have it

Gartner: The Billion-Dollar Quadrant
The history of Gartner by Motley Fool

IBM’s QEDWiki Adds ‘Data as […]

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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

IBM developerWorks : Blogs : The Innovation Capitalist
10 Usefull OSS tools

Who will buy your open-source startup? | The Open Road - CNET Blogs
OSS is red-hot. Matt has a good (as always) blog on who might buy OSS startups

IBM Radical Collaboration
Cool story about IBM R&D

Rails creator on Java and other ‘junk’ | InfoWorld
Cool story […]

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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Java not Sun?
Wall Street is warming up to open source.

MeasureIT - Issue 5.08 - As Available as a Dial Tone by Michael A. Salsburg, D. V. (Doctor of Virtualization)
As Available as a Dial Tone. Availability is considered carrier-grade (as in the carrier of telephony) if its availability meets or exceeds 99.999% available. When we […]

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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Why Microsoft fears open source more than other proprietary vendors do
When it comes to OSS, this guy knows his stuff!

Microsoft sets ship date for Configuration Manager

» Business intelligence: The next frontier | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

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Acer Acquiring Gateway for $710 Million

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Acer Acquiring Gateway for $710 Million

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Sunday, August 26th, 2007

IBM Employees Might Strike…In Second Life
A virtual strike in a virtual world. Where’s Jimmy Hoffa when you really need him?

IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software
Cool beans

Open source companies to watch
Xensource, a little too little, a little too late. Also, Wikia from Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) looks very interesting.

The 40 coolest free applications around […]

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Friday, August 24th, 2007

Ruminations of a Programmer: Why do they call it Javascript ? It’s not Java and it’s way powerful for a scripting language!
JavaScript v Ruby … O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Long Tail: Can Open Source be giving comfort to the enemy?
The author of The Long Tail discusses some of his concerns about an open source […]

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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

IBM to turn Sametime IM into a family of products | InfoWorld | News | 2007-08-21 | By China Martens, IDG News Service
IBM and SNO
http://talk.bmc.com/podcasts/podcast-bishop7
It doesn’t matter if you agree. This is the “language” of the people who buy software.
Zenoss and DLT Solutions Partner to Bring Open Source IT Management Solution to Federal Agencies
This could […]

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Friday, August 10th, 2007

Open Source at BMC Software with whurley | PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network
Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s open-source business strategy | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Open Source’s Next Steps
Does Open Source Licensing Matter?
An interview with Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s open-source business strategy | The Open Road - CNET Blogs

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Friday, June 29th, 2007

     
When is a CMDB not a CMDB? — TalkBMC
Let me guess … When you don’t have discovery …
   

Eclipse releases annual open source project - vnunet.com
Europa

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Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Port 25
Interesting Five Part Series on ESM 
  

IBM: The Mainframe Is Alive And Going Strong
Big IRON is alive and kicking!!!

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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Top-11 virtualization pitfalls | Tech News on ZDNet

How do you know your VMs are not walking out the door with critical information and data.  This is a really good point, with 100g USB drives floating at about $200 this will become an issue.

More than half of all German companies use Open Source

Very interesting…

Gartner gives Oracle […]

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Friday, June 15th, 2007

Some Links
 
OSS vs. Microsoft: Which Is the Most Untrustworthy?
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/rob/?p=121
 
Microsoft Prepares For General Public License Version 3: The End Of The Beginning For Windows?
http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/38398
 
ITIL Goes Strategic
http://www.cio.in/esntech/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=3432