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The open source software development model clearly represents a profound and fundamental change from traditional, proprietary development models. In the proprietary world, a software company invests massive dollars in development, sales, and marketing. They recoup their investment in license fees, which have strict provisions regarding redistribution of the product (you can't), accessing the source code (are you kidding?), and making changes to the source code (call your lawyer). Open Source Software (OSS) turns each of these three provisions on their head: distribute it, look at it, customize it. In so doing, OSS offers a vastly different value proposition to business users, enabling application and stack customization for every size company - a benefit that, in the pro... (more)

Enterprise Linux Briefs: BitDefender Linux Products Blossom

Last month, BitDefender (www.BitDefender.com) made a couple substantial Linux product announcements. First, it released version 1.6.2 of its BitDefender for Samba Linux File Servers product. As part of the new release, the company released parts of the updated product under an Open Source license. The specific code now covered under GPL is their antivirus (VFS) engine for Samba. Asked w... (more)

IBM Workplace Managed Client

What if your desktop applications didn't care what operating system was running on your computer? If IBM's Workplace group delivers on the vision they laid out for me in a recent demo of their Workplace Managed Client (WMC), IT departments will have exactly this degree of freedom in their desktop OS selection. Built on the Eclipse project standard, IBM's WMC essentially provides a deskt... (more)

Taking Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and PHP to Their Logical Extreme

Let's play word association. I say "Web Hosting." I bet "fat margins" didn't jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the "where are they nows" of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say "New York City," and I'd wager that "cheap rent" wasn't the first thing you thought of, either. So it may surprise you to learn that one hosting company that's ... (more)

Enterprise Open Source: Where Are You Going, OSS? Supply and Demand

Bob Young recently spoke at the TriLUG Linux Users Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. His talk covered several topics, from why he founded Red Hat, to his latest online publishing venture, Lulu (www.lulu.com), to the need for greater public debate about copyright and patent law. In response to a question from the audience about where he thinks Open Source Software (OSS) will dominate and ... (more)