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Continued M&A Activity Make it a Happy New Year
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly Much is made about how the opening days of trading tend to set the tone for the equity markets each year. (If that’s the case, Monday’s strong performance of both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Index would indicate a ...23 hours ago -
Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask - part three
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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 ...1 day ago -
Seasons Greetings from 451 Group & CAOS
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Seasons Greetings from The 451 Group and the Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) team. As the year draws to a close and we prepare to start a New Year, we wanted to highlight some of our recent work and the best of 2009. For 451 Group subscribers, we encourage you to check out our 2009 review and 2010 ...1 week ago -
Oracle Gets the Coveted Golden Tombstone
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: by Brenon Daly We survey corporate development executives every year to get a sense of their shopping plans for the next 12 months. We’ll have a full report on the survey when we return from our holiday break in early January, but the headline finding is that ...1 week ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.12.23
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Red Hat’s Q3. Google’s definition of open. Copyright assignment. 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 ...1 week ago -
Will Meru Make it to Market?
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly Having watched at least three of its rivals get acquired in recent years, Meru Networks is now aiming for the other exit: a public offering. The WLAN equipment maker filed its IPO paperwork on Friday for an $86m offering to be led by Bank of America ...1 week ago -
Google, Gartner pick open, closed winners
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As the year draws to a close, we sure are getting some pretty sweeping assessments of open source, open standards and what openness means in today’s enterprise IT market. Google kicked things of with a thoughtful discussion of the meaning of open in today’s enterprise IT, but it included a somewhat misplaced ...2 weeks ago -
We were promised jetpacks: four quick predictions about open source in 2020
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We recently published (451 clients only) our predictions for open source in 2010. As a child of the 1970s it was a little disappointing to be making predictions about the year 2010 that did not involve living on the moon, driving hovercars, and flying around using jetpacks. It’s always more fun to look a bit ...2 weeks ago -
CAOS Theory’s most popular posts of 2009
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Here are CAOS Theory’s top 20 posts of 2009, in terms of page views: The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A October - Our take on the potential ramifications of the suspension of OSI’s corporate status. Commercial open source business strategies in 2009 and ...2 weeks ago -
Kana: Bidding While Cash Burns
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The 451 Group: Inorganic Growth submits: By Brenon Daly The progression from spurned bidder to shareholder activist isn’t all that unusual. But it is unusual when the party smarting is a publicly traded company, and decides to express its agitation through press releases. Yet, that’s exactly how ...2 weeks ago -
CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.12.18
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Topics for this podcast: *2009 review and 2010 preview *New CAOS survey and report – Climate Change *Ups and downs in new round of GPL lawsuits *Oracle-Sun-MySQL saga continues iTunes or direct download (30:00, 6.9 MB)2 weeks ago -
New GPL suits and an open source imbalance
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A new round of GPL-based BusyBox suits has been filed, targeting big names in electronics and IT. We’ve long covered these series of GPL-based suits and settlements , but this latest round comes at an interesting time for open source software and its licensing. First, we have the backdrop of the ...2 weeks ago -
Life after death or living dead? Open source is no guarantee
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There was much rejoicing recently as Google announced a change of heart and decided to release the source code to EtherPad, which it had previously acquired along with AppJet and had planned to shut down. Krishnan Subramanian at Cloud Ave was certainly happy as it supported his theory that SaaS vendors should ...2 weeks ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.12.15
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Recent non-Oracle/EC/MySQL news. 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 but were afraid to ask # ...3 weeks ago -
Two webinars this week
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I’m taking part in two webinar’s this week that will likely be of interest to CAOS readers. On WednesdayI’m contributing to a webinar with EnterpriseDB on the subject of open source database adoption in the enterprise, while on Thursday I’ll be presenting a 451 Group webinar on data warehousing. During the ...3 weeks ago -
EC investigation of Oracle-Sun enters the endgame
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Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems looks set for approval by the European Commission after the competition commission welcomed commitments from Oracle related to the future development and licensing of the open source MySQL database. The EC has until January 27, 2010, to reach a final decision ...3 weeks ago -
Open source means cost savings
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We’ve just published our latest CAOS special report, ‘ Climate Change -User perspectives on the impact of economic conditions on open source software adoption.’ The report is based on our recent survey findings among more than 1,700 open source software customers and users, and also offers guidance on ...3 weeks ago -
451 CAOS Links 2009.12.11
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Sun updates Java platform. Red Hat open sources SPICE. 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 ...3 weeks ago -
Open source was good enough, will non-open source be open enough?
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There was a time years ago when open source software in the enterprise often had to be just ‘good enough.’ Over time, use and broader adoption, open source software has now reached the point that it must often be ‘as good or better’ than proprietary alternatives, now typically getting equal consideration ...3 weeks ago -
The case against the case against Oracle-MySQL
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Matt Asay is right, in my opinion, to point out the inherent bias in the case Monty Widenius et al have made against Oracle’s potential ownership of MySQL. I would go further, however, in stating that the case being made against Oracle is flawed by the fact that it is so self-serving. For instance: I previously ...3 weeks ago
