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Big Software has duped us for decades - Part II
Undoing the dupe: A way out of your Big Software contracts By Roger Burkhardt, CEO, Ingres (Last month Burkhardt wrote about how Big Software companies lock customers into restrictive software...
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Oracle vs. HP: the sniping continues
Oracle and Hewlett-Packard rarely miss an opportunity to diss each other. The latest round of press releases and quarterly earnings calls are no exception. Earlier this week Oracle (ORCL) issued an...
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Dell to offer fruits of controversial Microsoft-Novell pact on Linux
Dell (DELL) has become the first “systems-provider” to take advantage of the controversial technological collaboration and intellectual property pact concluded in November between Microsoft (MSFT) and...
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MSFT: Linux, free software, infringe 235 of our patents
In the current issue of Fortune (cover dated May 28), Microsoft (MSFT) executives assert that free and open-source software, including the Linux operating system, infringes 235 of its patents. The...
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Ending software patents: Has the time come?
Attempting to ride a wave of corporate and judicial disenchantment with aspects of the current patent system, a new project was unveiled Thursday designed to, as its name bluntly indicates, End...
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A no-fly zone to protect Linux from patent trolls
On Tuesday a consortium of technology companies, including IBM , will launch a new initiative designed to help shield the open-source software community from threats posed by companies or individuals...
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Google to co-head open-source patent defense alliance
The Open Invention Network (OIN), a consortium of major technology companies formed in 2005 to minimize patent-aggression against free and open-source software projects, plans to announce today that...
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Red Hat taps former Cisco exec as new CFO
Red Hat RHT just named Frank Calderoni, a former Cisco CSCO executive, as executive vice president and CFO, reporting to CEO Jim Whitehurst. Calderoni held the same positions at networking leader Cisco...
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Why Google, IBM, and Intel are backing this hot technology
A group of leading companies including Amazon, Google, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM are joining forces to help make an emerging data center technology easier to use by creating an...
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Why Verizon, AT&T, and Twitter are supporting this hot technology
You can tell when a business technology really starts catching on in the mainstream when high profile companies are willing to associate their names with it. Last month a group of more than 20...
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Microsoft brings Windows Containers to the fore
To be considered a tech vendor at the forefront of today’s market, you’d better support containers--technology that lets developers package up applications to run efficiently on less hardware and even...
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How much of Red Hat’s $2 billion in revenue will come from cloud?
Red Hat, the company behind a flavor of the Linux operating system popular with businesses, should hit $2 billion in revenue this year, chief executive Jim Whitehurst told analysts on the company’s...
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Red Hat acquires Ansible to beef up its development tool set
Red Hat is buying Ansible, a startup backing a hot set of software tools that developers and IT folks use to build and deploy applications efficiently. As part of the deal, about 50 Ansible employees...
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The Hard Evidence: Business Is Slowing Down
If you were to judge the current corporate era solely on the basis of business jargon, you would think we're in a time of hyperspeed change. Silicon Valley gurus talk rapturously about "failing fast,"...
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Google and Red Hat Found a Dangerous, Widespread Bug
Engineers at Google and Red Hat independently found an egregious bug in very widely-distributed computer code library known as “glibc”. The bug, which dates back to 2008, affects hundreds of thousands...
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Red Hat Is Now a $2 Billion Open-Source Baby
Mission accomplished. Red Hat, which promised a few months ago to hit $2 billion in annual revenue, has done so and now claims to be the world’s first open-source company to reach that milestone. It...
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Red Hat Shares Could Rise 30% In a Year
Red Hat shares could rise 30% in a year as more companies use its server software, according to a report on Sunday in the financial publication Barron’s. Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat RHT ,...
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Red Hat Shares Tumble 6% After Cutting Forecast
(Reuters) – Red Hat, the world’s largest commercial distributor of the Linux operating system, said it would buy software management provider 3scale, but cut its full-year adjusted profit outlook...
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Open Source Windows May Not Be that Big a Long Shot After All
Here’s a burning question for the tech universe: Could Microsoft, which built its Windows cash cow on proprietary or closed-source software, reverse course and open-source Windows itself? That would be...
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Here’s Why This Software Scuffle Should Matter to Non-Techies
There’s been a battle brewing in the world of software development concerning how companies build and update the software they use internally and, perhaps more importantly, the software they use to...
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