Open Enterprise Interview: Mark Taylor
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| You could say:
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| * The community position is "Free, as in 'speech'".
| * The monopolist position is "Free, as in 'worthless'".
| * The OSC position is "Free, as in 'markets'".
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=244
Reducing hardware and software costs
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| One of things that ranks even higher than reducing costs on my surveys is
| interest in free software and Open Source applications and operating systems.
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http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/opin/7467BEA29CBE6090CC2573A90074C97B
Some more open-source things (not Free software):
Jitterbit Launches the World's First Open Source Application & Data Integration
Marketplace
http://www.cgidir.com/news/press/071206Jitterbit.html
Open SystemC Initiative Releases New Draft Standard for Transaction-Level
Modeling
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| The TLM-2 draft 2 kit is made available under open source license and
| includes a requirements specification, documentation, library and examples.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/eda/15456/open-systemc-initiative-releases-new-draft-standard-transaction-level-modeling
http://tinyurl.com/38zpq5
Related:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Open source funding: the complete picture
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| In addition to VC funding, we also took a look at the amounts raised
| by open source vendors via initial public offerings. These figures
| are not included in the totals of $1.89bn or $2.02bn, but for those
| that are interested, between them Red Hat, VA, Caldera, Mandriva,
| Turbolinux and Trolltech raised $319.9m via their IPOs.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/open_source_fun_2.html
Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell
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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item
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