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Why Preventing Fragmentation Is Good for Your Budget
Anything that slows down data subtracts from your bottom line. Instead of using two-decades-old technology to defrag after the fact, why not use higher level technology from Diskeeper that...
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SugarCRM, Cloudera debut on list of open source firms to watch in '11
Red Hat, Acquia, SugarCRM, EnterpriseDB, Jaspersoft, Cloudera, Google and Novell, in that order, were named the top 8 open source companies to watch in the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual...
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Open source may be a venture capital dry hole
The best open source companies are service businesses, like law firms. Just as restaurants sell food for more than they pay for it, so open source companies sell the time of their people for more...
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Analysts build open source straw men
I have been covering open source for five years and have yet to meet a single CEO who dreams of wearing Spandex to work.
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Will European rules impact open source business models?
Separations of code functions or support levels that are meant to convert enterprise downloaders into buyers can backfire in unexpected ways.
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Dismissing the open source bear at the door
The best advice I can offer, especially if you're short of money, is to keep working. Find important jobs which need doing. Find code that can help do them. So long as you have a laptop with WiFi...
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For first time, open source OK'd for UK schools
The most amazing part of this news is that it's actually news. Just read the report from the Inquirer: OPEN SOURCE companies have been granted official permission to supply software to the UK...
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Is the open source IPO a pipe dream?
Will Red Hat be the only major pure play open source company to go public? That’s what observers are wondering as more and more open source stars are swallowed up by traditional proprietary...
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2012's Best Linux desktop: Linux Mint 13
The Linux Mint distribution keeps getting better and better with its own take on GNOME, the Cinnamon Linux desktop
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Setting up Mint 13: 2012's Best Linux desktop
Mint 13 with Cinnamon may well be the best Linux desktop of all for expert users.
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Fedora 17 boasts OpenStack, JBoss, oVirt support
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project has announced a significant release of its open source Linux distribution with added support for open cloud and open virtualization technologies as well as...
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How freebies are ruining Google I/O
The Law of Unintended Consequences claims another victim as Google's largesse threatens to undermine the purpose of Google I/O.
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Open source and the National Security Agency, together again
Open-source software and the National Security Agency go together like peanut-butter and jelly. No, they really do!
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Sapphire 2012: The Softer, Greater SAP...I Hope
Let me start this with a strange and seemingly incoherent (but truly more inchoate) statement. "If SAP marketed to the rest of the world, the way they produce conferences, they could arguably...
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Microsoft is serious about open source: 10 proof points
Microsoft has come a long way in its acceptance of open source. And its motto doesn't seem to be (this time) to embrace and extinguish.
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Bazaarvoice acquires rival PowerReviews; adds SMBs to social CRM portfolio
Social CRM consolidation: Bazaarvoice acquires rival PowerReviews for $152 million, closing the loop on a strategy that stretches from small businesses to big box retailers.
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There's trouble with three major Linux desktop application developers
An old myth is that the Linux desktop doesn't have the applications most users need, but lately some companies that have long supported Linux are pulling back from the Linux desktop and that's a...
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CRM Idol 2012: Last Two Days To Take Your Shot
I'm not sure why I'm writing this because any small company in the CRM world or social tools world or anything that is customer facing world that hasn't heard of CRM Idol or taken advantage of it...
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Google kicks Oracle in its patent teeth
Oracle loses its patent claims and so Google has almost completely defeated Oracle in its vain attempts to squeeze an intellectual property payoff from Google and Android.
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How the cloud helps build agile companies and encourage experimentation
With subscription-based pricing and low cost of entry, SaaS gives companies the freedom to innovate with their software choices and run with what works
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Build your own open-source cloud with ownCloud 4
So you like the idea of cloud-computing, but you don't trust any of the cloud vendors? With ownCloud 4 you can build your own.
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