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[News] Linux and Free Software Put the Big Four Software Companies Under Stress and Danger

  • Subject: [News] Linux and Free Software Put the Big Four Software Companies Under Stress and Danger
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:25:09 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Ex-HPer Says HP, IBM, Others Susceptible To Open Source

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| You might dismiss her as just another fan of open source, the freely
| available software best known by Linux. But Denzel is the former
| head of HP's software group. She resigned last year.
| 
| She says open source is encroaching in several software arenas, 
| but in particular with management software that helps companies 
| manage their sprawling networks. 
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-17805732.htm

Sun is desperately trying to join this wave by saying it's "open source" and
releasing code (which it does).

Student Ambassadors for Open Source

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| At Sun we've taken billions of dollars of intellectual property and open 
| sourced it. If you look at three big things, Java, Solaris (which is 
| the operating system that competes with Linux), and Spark (which is 
| the chip)--we've open sourced all of that. So our message is, for 
| [these students] to be successful at work....
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/48872/

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