LinuxQuestions.org Open Source Business Conference I'll be in San Francisco for the next few days to attend the Open Source Business Conference. I was considering attending the Microsoft "Open Source ISV Forum", but it seems they declined my application to attend :) If you'll be in the area and would
Linux Gratis 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo Conference Pass I recently mentioned that LQ will be sponsoring a number of upcoming Linux and Open Source related conferences. I'm extremely happy to report that we are now able to give away a completely free conference pass to some of them. The first one is the 2008 MySQL Conference
Linux Upcoming Events LinuxQuestions.org is proud to sponsor a variety of Linux and Open Source related conferences and expos. The list of events coming up over the next couple months is significant, so I wanted to post about a few of them here. OSBC Attend OSBC March 25-26, 2008 at the Palace
Linux Sun and Open Source Sun takes a lot of heat in the community. Some would say too much, others would say not enough. I find the situation fascinating, really... and think it's a good look into the complex and sometimes antithetical nature of the Open Source ecosystem. I don't think
Linux Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability A little late on this, but better late than never. By now, you've probably heard about the Microsoft press release regarding "New interoperability principles and actions": Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of
Linux 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners The polls are closed and the results are in. You can view the detailed results here, but I'll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience. This was the seventh annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and we've set a record
LinuxQuestions.org New LQ Infrastructure - Update As a follow up to this post, the main LQ site is now being served off the new infrastructure. The move was relatively painless and few people should have been impacted. The site should be a bit faster now as well as quite a bit more fault tolerant. If you
MySQL What Makes a Freedom Fighter Join a Giant? or Ten Reasons to Get Acquired An interesting inside look on what went into the MySQL end of the acquisition decision from Mårten Mickos has recently been posted. At MySQL there were few things we loved as much as the thought of being our own masters. We had always been contrarians and we prided ourselves with
Linux SCO Plans Rebound Thanks to $100M Lifeline I have no idea how, but it looks like SCO managed to get a $100M bid that will take the company private. From the article: Embattled Unix vendor SCO may get a new lease on life, thanks to a $100 million infusion aimed at helping it emerge from bankruptcy and
Linux SCALE 6X Follow up (photos courtesy of John Stanforth via Flickr) I'm back from SCALE 6X and finally just about caught up. SCALE was once again an outstanding time, Ilan and the entire crew put on a great expo. The speaking lineup was interesting/informative, the networking events were good, the network
Linux SCALE 6X I'm in LA for SCALE 6X. If you're in the SoCal area and able to attend, i recommend it. Last night was fairly tame by SCALE standards, but I'd expect things to kick into full gear tonight. As always the speaker line up looks
Microsoft Time To Change Microsoft - Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO), Here's a Better Deal A quick update on the Microsoft - Yahoo deal. Now that people have had a chance to digest the deal a bit, I notice the sentiment is turning negative. Microsoft shareholders are walking and employees of both companies seem unhappy. The value of the offer has shrunk over $2/share
Open Source The seven largest Open Source deals ever A quick list of the largest Open Source deals ever: Here are the seven largest deals that we could find the numbers for: 1. Sun buys MySQL, $1 billion, 2008 Sun now has their hands on the world’s most widely used open source database. 2. Red Hat buys Cygnus
LinuxQuestions.org New LQ Infrastructure - First snag hit As I previously mentioned, I've been working on moving LQ to an entirely new and updated infrastructure. Everything was going smooth and the project was actually ahead of schedule. The LQ Wiki, LQ ISO and LQ Radio are already being served by the new machines. I decided to
LinuxQuestions.org New LQ Infrastructure I am happy to report that LQ is getting a brand new infrastructure and moving to a new data center. This has been in the works for a while, but implementation is now well under way. The new site should be both faster and more reliable. LQ Radio has already
Google Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo in $44.6 billion deal It's been rumored on and off for years now, but Microsoft just made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. The bid, which would consist of cash and Microsoft stock, values Yahoo shares at $31 a share, a 62% premium on Thursdays closing price. More analysis here.
maemo Letstalk == FAIL I was quite excited when I found out I had been excepted into the N810 maemo device program. I own an N800 and really like it. Nokia is doing some really interesting things with both the N-series and Open Source, so I was looking forward to being able to get
Nokia Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy Continuing what is becoming a popular trend, another Open Source company has been acquired. This time it's Nokia acquiring Trolltech, who are best known for QT and Qtopia. From the press release: Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered
Microsoft Bill Gates Issues Call For Kinder Capitalism I almost didn't post this, but... does anyone find it ironic that one of the richest people in the world, one who amassed his fortune through crushing competition (often using obviously illegal tactics), leveraging monopolies and being quite often just generally anti competition and flat out predatory is
Open Source Sun acquires MySQL III Another quick follow up, hopefully my last on the topic (at least for a while). Things are finally starting to quiet down a bit on the MySQL Sun acquisition front, but I wanted to post a few recent links I've run into. Jonathan posted a little about how
MySQL Sun acquires MySQL II A quick follow up to a previous post. The buzz created by the Sun acquisition announcement is still going strong. I'm still digesting the news and doing additional reading, but here are some interesting items I've run across. Other Open Source database participants have been quite
Linux Sun acquires MySQL Sun made a huge announcement today. They are acquiring MySQL AB, for roughly $1,000,000,000. From Jonathan: But the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know
Open Source Ruby company raises $3.5 from Benchmark marcf takes a look at a recent VC deal and makes a couple comments on both services as a business model and Open Source. b/ FALSE: the future of the software industry (as a whole) is services. I always enjoy it when in debate people mention the case of VMWare
Apple Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? It looks like some think that OS X may be "killing" Linux on the desktop. I'm not sure that's the case, but it's an interesting point to explore. It's true that Apple has a much higher percentage of desktop users
Linux Open Source Code Contains Security Holes That's the title of a recent InformationWeek article. I hope this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone. All code contains bugs, and some of those bugs may turn into security issues. Open source code, much like its commercial counterpart, tends to contain one security exposure
