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Open Source: Open Source Leader — Oracle?

By Dick Weisinger

The Oracle acquisition of Sun is still in progress, and Sun continues to push the Open Source mantra.  The day after the acquisition announcement, Sun signed an agreement with China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and agreed to set

Open Source: Google and Intel Identify OS Risks

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft has been nearly alone in their warning of the potential problems and pitfalls with using Open Source. So it is a little surprising to hear that companies like Intel and Google chime in with at least some level of

Open Source: Businesses Pick Up On Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

46 percent of businesses are now using Open Source. Those numbers come from a Forrester Research survey of 2200 IT executives. The numbers keep rising, and many are predicting that the tough economic climate will only be a further incentive

Open Source: Growth — But not so Fast

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has forecast that the size of the Open Source database market will top $1 billion by 2013.  While everyone agrees that Open Source is making a big impact on the market, Rodriguez and Urlocker at InfoWorld dispute the speed

Open Source: Pricing Varies Widely

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source licenses are either free or come at dirt cheap prices, right? Sometimes. Actually, Open Source commercial license prices are all over the board. Mark de Visser had some interesting data on OS pricing recently on his blog. Mark