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.
Apache's share is declining because Google has switched its own servers to its own flavor of Apache -- the Google Front End server -- which makes extensive use of AJAX and server-side Java for faster page loads.
Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has grasped the anti-American political message of open source and is using it this week at LinuxWorld.
When running as a black box pulling down Web pages, CEO Ken Goldscholl says the Revolution x16 takes just 2% of the Xeon's energy load, a 98% savings.
Were this a breakfast plate, Red Hat would represent the eggs and Ubuntu the bacon. The chicken's involved but the pig is committed.
At some point, it's possible that open source conventions will have to go to Vegas. I have seen many industries try Vegas since Comdex, and all failed, unable to match the distractions.
The Open Solutions Alliance has launched a series of Customer Forums on behalf of open source around the country.
Because few companies in the open source movement are big enough to support large bureaucracies, these questions aren't even being asked. Which means the proprietary vendors continue to rule the day.
If you've got 25, 50 or even a few hundred people in your company, you can knit yourself a decent network management set-up from these parts. But that's a long way from having the Big Four quaking in their boots.Evolving isn't evolved.
Just as open source software offers a wide range of attitudes, from the near-proprietary to the entirely altruistic, so it is increasingly with content, thanks to the pedia phenomenon.
As a member of the open source community, you have the power. Community contributions rise as projects go down the incline, toward the GPL. That gravity will continue to pull people down, even Microsoft. But it will take time to work.
