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The Writing is on the Wall

Posted by Eric Weidner on February 15th, 2006 in Open Source Trends

Interesting developments keep happening in the Open Source world. "Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree" says that Oracle is negotiating to purchase the JBoss Group (JBoss Application Server), Zend (PHP), and Sleepy Cat (database). The acquisition is already announced on the Sleepy Cat page. This follows news that Oracle purchased InnoDB, the company behind a key piece [...]

The Open Source Community Dichotomy

Posted by Eric Weidner on February 7th, 2006 in Open Source Trends

As I was looking over the keynote speakers for the OSBC conference next week, I was reminded once again of an interesting dichotomy in the open source community. The Who's Who of Open Source is often radically different depending on if you are looking at it from the business perspective or from the developer perspective. [...]