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Most vendors are already preparing for a tough Christmas.
Those selling Linux-based solutions, however, can expect to spread plenty of holiday cheer, according to a new report from IDC, “The Opportunity for Linux in a New Economy.”
Even as Red Hat recently talked up its impressive quarterly results, it’s important to recognize that not all of [...]

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Sam Ramji wants more input from the open-source community, hoping to make Microsoft more responsive to their needs.
The director of the open-source development lab at Microsoft has told a Linux Foundation event he’s trying to educate Microsoft and slowly change its ways. The only way he can do that, Ramji said, is [...]

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Matt Asay nods approvingly at a recent study saying more CIOs plan to invest in Red Hat and JBOSS technology.
Well and good. Just don’t break out the champagne.
Open source may be doing well with a shrinking waterhole but that does not necessarily mean it is doing well.
Open source and the shrinking waterhole [...]

Vodafone never put much stock in open innovation, or tapping outsiders for ideas. It didn’t need to. The company, after all, had grown into the world’s biggest wireless telecom operator on its own. But with such interlopers as Google and Nokia starting to tromp on its turf, Vodafone became a convert. “We were a bit [...]

The President’s announcement of a coordinated system of Electronic Medical Records for both soldiers and veterans could be a big win for open source.
As ZDNet Healthcare reported early this week the military and VA records will transfer under NHIN-CONNECT.
Presidential commitment to open source still unclear | Open Source | ZDNet.com

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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst issued a statement on Monday applauding President Obama for bringing a culture of openness and participatory governance to the White House. According to Whitehurst, the Obama administration’s commitment to transparency and inclusiveness reflects the same values that are found at the core of the community-driven open source software [...]

To the right is an interesting, if controversial, graph offered today by Charles Taylor of Sirius Corp. and ZDNet UK.
It is meant to illustrate the costs of “upgrading” from a proprietary to a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solution in your IT shop.
The open source sea change and the Taylor graph | Open [...]

The Federal Health Architecture project released into the public domain the code for Connect, a software gateway that will let organizations outside the federal government share health information via the National Health Information Network.
Any public or private sector organization can download the Connect software and tie into the NHIN once it goes into full [...]

I was hugely entertained by the latest piece of Microsoft spin: apparently the recession is putting a dampener on migrations to open source. Of course, the suggestion is nonsense. In fact, my daily experience flatly contradicts Microsoft’s assertion, but then its marketing is not aimed at me. It is trained on those still inside the [...]

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Red Hat’s CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration’s call for openness and participation in government by likening the President’s statement to the open source software movement.
Linking to a White House statement in which President Obama calls for transparency, participation, and collaboration in government, Red [...]