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Corel: This Turkey Is Still Getting Carved Up
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly As many of us get ready to sit down with friends and family for our annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, our thoughts inescapably turn to poultry. When we look around at some of the deals out there right now, our thoughts also turn to poultry. For ...3 days ago -
Bets on Casual Games Paying Off
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Thomas Rasmussen Fittingly enough, on the one-year anniversary of our piece predicting continued consolidation of the social and casual gaming space, Electronic Arts ( ERTS ) announced the industry’s largest acquisition. The Redwood City, California-based ...5 days ago -
The Affero GPL does not solve the open source/cloud revenue dilemma
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A number of people have recently raised the issue of the threat that cloud computing poses to the monetization of open source by specialist vendors, including Savio Rodrigues , Matt Asay , and Mike Hogan . I believe that cloud computing provides an opportunity for open source specialists, but agree that cloud ...6 days ago -
NetApp: Single and Lovin It
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly Jilted earlier this summer, NetApp ( NTAP ) is nonetheless doing just fine on its own, thank you very much. Shares of the storage giant are now changing hands at their highest level in more than two years, giving the company a market capitalization ...1 week ago -
Open source and the cloud - the quick and the dead
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Savio Rodrigues has published a post arguing that cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure pose a threat to the monetization of open source by specialist vendors. Savio makes a good case based on the recent launch of AWS’s Relational Database Service, based on MySQL, and Microsoft’s ...1 week ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.11.20
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Google launches Chromium project, Terracotta acquires Quartz. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about ...1 week ago -
A Thaw in the M & A Market
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about a thaw in the once-frozen M&A market. While that’s true for overall activity, it’s also turning out to be true for specific deals that for one reason or another found themselves on ice at some ...1 week ago -
The state of the supercomputer superpower - Linux
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There’s a new Top500 Supercomputers list out, and it still looks good for Linux. As we’ve seen in the past, Linux has maintained its fast-risen dominance of the list in the latest round, now claiming a role in all of the top 10 systems and more than 90% of the world’s 500 fastest, most powerful ...1 week ago -
The open core transparency test
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Earlier this year Jason van Zyl from Sonatype raised the question as to why so many open core software vendors hide the pricing details of their proprietary enterprise editions, pointing out that it was in their best interests to be transparent: “Potential customers who start out as your Open Core users need to ...1 week ago -
Google: The Not-So-Gentle Giant Steps into Mobile Apps
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly In order to grow and foster broad support, technology platforms need to be open and inclusive. Of course, that’s a sentiment that runs counter to M&A, which by definition is selective and exclusionary. (See our earlier report on how selecting ...1 week ago -
Where open source was, and where it is now
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Over the years of my observation, coverage and participation in open source software, SourceForge (both the code repository site SourceForge.net and the corporation) has typically served as one key barometer of where things stood. However, this began to change a couple of years ago, when I wrote about how the ...1 week ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.11.17
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Larry Augustin confirmed as SugarCRM CEO. Red Hat’s Fedora Project is 12. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted ...1 week ago -
Amid Consolidation, Ixia Opens its Wallet
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Thomas Rasmussen Historically, networking test and measurement vendor Ixia ( XXIA ) has never been much of a shopper. However, that has started to change this year as the Calabasas, California-based company reached for Catapult Communications in June for $105m as ...1 week ago -
Cavium’s Quick Moves on MontaVista
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly It was hardly surprising when embedded OS vendor MontaVista Software got snapped up earlier this week. In fact, my colleague Jay Lyman put MontaVista at the top of his hit list for targets in the market in his report back in August. After all, ...1 week ago -
CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.11.13
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Topics for this podcast: *Cavium-MontaVista continues embedded Linux consolidation *Day Software’s unique open source story *DataSync and an update on open source for SMBs *Our Cost Conscious survey and coming report iTunes or direct download (21:39, 4.9 MB)2 weeks ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.11.13
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Symbian’s future in the balance? All Go for Chrome OS. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL ...2 weeks ago -
Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask - part two
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Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion written about Oracle’s impending ownership of MySQL and its impact on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as ...2 weeks ago -
Linux-fueled consolidation continues
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Mobile and embedded Linux consolidation has continued in a big way, the latest evidence being Cavium Networks $50m acquisition of MontaVista Software. As detailed in a report for 451 Group subscribers, we expected to see continued consolidation following Intel’s $884m acquisition of Wind River in June 2009, the ...2 weeks ago -
Copyright/left at the centre of open source business strategies
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Below is a rough draft of the cornerstone slide for a new presentation deck I am putting together to explain the various business strategies for monetizing open source software. The aim is to explain every single existing strategy using the elements on this one slide (although I am yet to test it out). In our ...2 weeks ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.11.10
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Objectional statements on Oracle-Sun-MySQL. How Google uses Linux. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.” Objectional statements The European Commission communicated its Statement of Objections to ...2 weeks ago
