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Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own
Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products. Essentially, this means that Oracle, after removing Red Hat trademarks, will be distributing Oracle Unbreakable Linux, derived from Red Hat’s open-source Linux technology. Oracle, however, claims that it is merely…
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OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans
While both Gateway and Hewlett-Packard are going to let customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season upgrade to Windows Vista at no cost, Dell has decided to charge a fee to upgrade from Windows XP Home to Vista Basic. These OEM announcements closely follow that of Microsoft, which finally revealed Oct. 24 its upgrade…
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Microsoft Wants More from Its ISV Channel for Vista
The 80-20 rule doesn’t work out exactly in Microsoft’s ISV channel. The fabled maxim of vendor channels that states 80 percent of revenue is typically driven by 20 percent of partners is stumped when it gets to Redmond, Wash., where the Microsoft ISV channel squeezes 80 percent of its revenue out of less than 3…
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OnForce’s Gilroy to Step Down by January
Kevin Gilroy, CEO of OnForce announced on Oct. 23 that he will leave the company at the end of December, barely a year into his tenure. Gilroy will remain a shareholder and a “strategic advisor” to the company, which operates an online marketplace for IT services, the company said in a prepared statement. Gilroy joined…
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Open-Source Firms Reward Developers with Xboxes
What does it take to get an open-source developer to write a piece of software code or perhaps find and fix bugs in a company’s existing code? A Microsoft Xbox, it appears. Just ask Stormy Peters, an original founder of Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source Program Office and currently the director of project management at OpenLogic, which…
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Microsoft Finally Reveals Plans for Upgrades to Vista
Microsoft has finally revealed the much anticipated details of its program to let customers who buy a PC that is Windows Vista capable over the holiday season upgrade to the new operating system. Microsoft officials have said they are on track for a release of Vista to volume license business customers in November, and to…
