Another 'open source' faker. Nothing to do with open source apart from
something in the company's name...
Open Source Storage and DISC Partner to Enhance Open Archive Initiative
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/51033005cp.shtml
Another 'open source' faker appears to have just been acquired.
Fonality Calls In Acquisition
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| Telephony vendor Fonality has made its first acquisition by purchasing
| open-source CRM provider Insightful Solutions.
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http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Fonality+Calls+In+Acquisition/218663_1.aspx
Open source integrator (moocher)...
GigaSpaces, GridGain to Provide Robust Grid Solution
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| The GigaSpaces-GridGain partnership is part of an ongoing initiative at
| GigaSpaces to work closely with the open source community. As part of the
| relationship, GridGain is distributing GigaSpaces XAP Community Edition, a
| free version of GigaSpaces' flagship product. Other open source projects that
| are integrated with GigaSpaces include the Spring Framework, Mule ESB and
| Hibernate.
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http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1866383.html
It's companies like these which make "Open Source" look bad/worse.
Recent:
Is Microsoft Hijacking Open Source?
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| What really worries me is what looks like an emerging pattern in Microsoft's
| behaviour. The EU agreement is perhaps the first fruit of this, but I predict
| it will not be the last. What is happening is that Microsoft is effectively
| being allowed to define the meaning of “open source” as it wishes, not as
| everyone else understands the term. For example, in the pledge quoted above,
| an open source project is “not commercially distributed by its
| participants” - and this is a distinction also made by Kroes and her FAQ.
|
| In this context, the recent approval of two Microsoft licences as
| officially “open source” is only going to make things worse. Although I felt
| this was the right decision – to have ad hoc rules just because it's
| Microsoft would damage the open source process - I also believe it's going to
| prove a problem. After all, it means that Microsoft can rightfully point to
| its OSI-approved licences as proof that open source and Microsoft no longer
| stand in opposition to each other. This alone is likely to perplex people who
| thought they understood what open source meant.
|
| [...]
|
| What we are seeing here are a series of major assaults on different but
| related fields – open source, open file formats and open standards. All are
| directed to one goal: the hijacking of the very concept of openness. If we
| are to stop this inner corrosion, we must point out whenever we see wilful
| misuse and lazy misunderstandings of the term, and we must strive to make the
| real state of affairs quite clear. If we don't, then core concepts like “open
| source” will be massaged, kneaded and pummelled into uselessness.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1003745
Related:
Using open source as a marketing ploy
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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html
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