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In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war," this one among researchers who study how technology is diffused into the market.

In this TestRun podcast, eWEEK Labs' Jim Rapoza and Jason Brooks discuss the possible effects of the acquisition. (Podcast #67)

Nokia is "product" company, product manager Ari Jaaski told listeners at LinuxWorld last week; it never publicly released the source code to anything before. Yet in conjunction with the launch of its 770 Internet tablet, Nokia has started an open source application platform, dedicated programmers to existing open source projects, sponsored developers already working on open source, and expended resources to promote open source software.

Red Hat said in a statement, the transaction consists of 40 percent cash, with the balance in Red Hat common stock. It said it will also pay about $70 million more if certain performance metrics are achieved in the future.

Launched in December, Portableapps.com is a community site in which Haller and other developers offer versions of standard software that a person can take with them on a flash drive, a storage device that uses flash memory and is small enough to attach to a keychain. The hardware runs off a PC's USB port.

No matter what technology you might be considering as part of your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation, there's sure to be a hefty number of mundane data integration tasks required within your enterprise.

An Interview with Kenneth Wesley Wimer II

That's right, for the first time you don't have to choose between buying an Apple Mac or a Dell or a HP; the Apple Intel-based Macs give you operating system variety like never before.

After Oracle acquired Innobase in November, speculation was rife as to whether Oracle, which competes with MySQL, would renew the agreement with the open-source database company.

Developers are voicing complaints that Canonical is not supporting them.

An expert in deploying open source throughout the enterprise tells us how to wean ourselves off the Microsoft drug forever.

Three open source "centers of excellence" were recently established to aid research and development, and advocate the use of free or open source software in the Asia Pacific region, INQ7.net has learned.

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Here's the text of my press conference at LinuxWorld Expo Boston.

According to IDC, China's Linux market revenue reached $11.8 mln in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004.

OpenOffice.org is working to iron out several performance bottlenecks following complaints that the application takes relatively long to start up, especially on Linux systems.

"America is well on its way to surrendering leadership in advanced telecom products and services," ESI says. We rank only 16th worldwide in broadband penetration and 42nd in cell phone penetration. We generate less than one-fifth of the Internet traffic per capita that South Korea does. And we've been slow on the uptake of 3G services.

In its biennial survey of the world's largest databases, WinterCorp, a database research and consulting company, reported that Oracle dominated its list of 175 large databases. For the first time, databases running on Linux appeared on WinterCorp's list -- and all of them came from Oracle.

I am an ex-Microsoft programmer of 10 years who had never spent 10 minutes with open source code till I left Microsoft–which is actually quite typical for MS employees.