Red Hat CEO faces generational divide
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| MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos said in an interview that he's
| observed a similar phenomenon. People rarely change, he said, so
| usually the shift to open-source software use comes with the
| arrival of a new generation of technologists at a company.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9722293-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1040_3-0-5
http://tinyurl.com/2kbzb4
MySQL's Mickos: 'No free beer' with free software
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| But open source is not a business model. It is used as a market
| and a method for distribution, Mickos pointed out.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/23/mickos-osbc_1.html
More from OSBC:
Lina Previews Groundbreaking Technology at OSBC 2007
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| Today, at the Open Source
| Business Conference (OSBC), Lina, an Alameda software company, unveils
| LINA. LINA enables a Linux application, developed and compiled once, to run
| with native look and feel on three different platforms. The company will
| release the source code for this technology next month under the GPL and a
| commercial license, making Open Source applications portable to non-Linux
| operating systems and the numerous varieties of Linux operating systems.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-23-2007/0004594783&EDATE=
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