Citrix’ strategy is your moment of Xen

21:23 11.09.2007

You’ve seen all these VMWare announcements? Look at these as two paths for OEMs. Most will choose both, I believe. The deals VMWare announced are non-exclusive. We’re talking to the same people.

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Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?

So what say y'all? Has Google become a greater threat to open source than Microsoft? Is Microsoft just throwing sand in our faces, seeking to split BSD from GPL? Or will we say, like Mercutio, "a plague on both their houses."

Did Untangle blow the call?

Most surprising to many was that ClamAV was rated highly while Watchguard, which uses the ClamAV engine, flunked. Then ClamAV was bought and tongues started wagging.

What’s a Pligg worth?

Pligg, an open source Digg clone, has put itself on the market. For a minimum bid of $25,000 on Sedo.Com, you and your friends or business partners can get the domain name, the Web site, and access to the Sourceforge domain where the software is located.

ClamAV deal is new marker for open source merger market

Are you, as an open source user, about to get caught in the trips-and-dramas of corporate finance, just as if you were using proprietary software? It seems so.

Is SaaS the quick way to open source revenue?

The customer won't likely want to see the source code, but having it available to the online vendor helps. You're his partner on sales calls, but your offerings will go side-by-side against proprietary products. To the customer there is no difference.

Sun set on server business?

Companies that have run Sun hardware now know they can continue to get competitive gear even as Moore's Second Law continues to bite.

Will XenSource-Citrix Deal Hurt Xen, Open Source?

Citrix’s $500 million buyout of XenSource is a brilliant strategic move that will enable the Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. software company –and its powerful close ally, Microsoft — to steal market share from virtualization software kingpin VMware. The deal, announced this week presumably to coincide with VMware’s star-studded IPO, essentially unifies two powerful proprietary software companies, and

The iPhone bill demonstrates need for open spectrum

When the cell companies rush to the FCC and demand their rules for the coming auction of TV spectrum, this is the model they are trying to protect. The event model.

Virtualization cashes out

Is this the ground floor or the penthouse for the open source virtualization market?

No one has to buy anybody

As business models evolve ever-more rapidly, so the speed with which businesses rise, get gigantic, and fall will increase as well.

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