December 3, 2009
by sjvn01
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Red Hat is the number one Linux company on the planet by a wide margin. Their flagship distribution, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is great and they have excellent technical support. That hasn’t stopped other companies from trying to ride … Continue reading
September 24, 2009
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The big money software companies, like Microsoft, still rely on proprietary software for their profits. Things are changing though. While businesses like Microsoft and Sun are seeing their profits and growth decline, pure open-source play companies like Red Hat are … Continue reading
September 7, 2009
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Last week, I argued that the European Commission, the European Union’s top competition authority, was wasting its time delaying Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. Since then, I’ve heard from Henrik Ingo, the COO (chief operating officer) for Monty Program Ab, the … Continue reading
September 4, 2009
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The European Commission, the European Union’s top competition authority, has opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle’s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun, and, until they’re done, it won’t approve the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Are you kidding me? This is so wrong-headed … Continue reading
July 14, 2009
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You can’t make up results as bad as this. Sun Microsystems, in its last days as an independent company has announced absolutely horrible preliminary numbers for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended June 30, 2009. According to the … Continue reading
July 12, 2009
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People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long … Continue reading