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Microsoft's Open Source Strategy & The Yahoo bid to get back in the game

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:17:04 -0000

Michael Tiemann picks up where Mary Jo Foley left off. he takes her prescient arguments concerning Microsot's Open Source Strategey and xtends them to Microsot's bid for Yahoo! This is a must read!

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On the morning of February 1st 2008, Microsoft announced an unsolicited bid of $44.6B hostile for Yahoo!, and by the end of the day, Microsoft had lost $20B in market capitalization. Where does this leave Microsoft's open source strategy and the analysis thereof?

Yahoo! was a pioneering "internet company", one of the first to really create and capture value of a world newly web-enabled. And like many of these so-called internet companies (Google was another), Yahoo! built it infrastructure on open source technologies. Why? Better, faster, cheaper: Dave Filo and Jerry Yang were still poor college students back in the day, but smart. (As were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, but that's another story.)

Tags: internet microsoft opensource oss yahoo

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Bringing Open Source to SOAs

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:37:39 -0000

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An eWEEK must read. I think the recent aquisition is having a positive impact on the eWEEK journalist and reporters. What a great series they've put together on SOA. SaaS and the Web 2.0
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Vendors such as Iona Technologies, Red Hat, MuleSource, WSO2, Sun Microsystems and even IBM are pushing open-source components as key pieces of service-oriented architecture implementations.

Iona is heading the Eclipse Foundation's SOA Tools Platform Project, which is building frameworks and tools that enable the design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitoring and management of software designed around a service-oriented architecture.

This is certainly a big win for IBM hardware and Services. I wonder how IONA plans to compete against IBM when IBM hardware and services can combine a one tow enterprise punch usign IONA open source efforts?

I hope the IONA guys know what they're doing. Or this could get ughly.

posted by garyedwards

MuleSource CEO Dave Rosenberg, in San Francisco, agreed. "One of the key goals of SOA is to free up your IT environment from burdensome proprietary standards and vendor stacks that lock you in," he said. "In order to truly control your environment, open source is the only answer." MuleSource maintains the open-source Mule ESB.

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Shaun Connolly, vice president of JBoss, said that the company's "application platform, Web apps, Web services, portal and the overall SOA platform provides more service bus integration for a more open and integrated platform."

This is sad. Red Hat does not yet understand how important the portable XML dcoument/data file format wars are to the future of SOA. The Microsoft Vista Stack, based on OOXML-Smart Documents as the inter application stack transport, will effectively lock Red Hat out of any enterprise transitioning from MSOffice bound business processes.

I guess it's because open source vendors don't see the MSOffice <> MS Exchange/SharePoint Hub as part of a SOA solution, that they don't see the importance of OOXML-SmartDocs.

Red Hat Servers are under assault throughout the USA as Exchange/SharePoint Hub server system move in. The E/S Hubs have an extraordinary connectivity to existing MSOffice desktops, with OOXML-Smart Docs as the transport connecting the two.

The only way Red Hat could ever hope to crack that Vista Stack is by using ODF plugins at the head point; MSOffice bound business processes.

The idea being to let the plugin convert existing documents and business processes to ODF in much the same way that the OOXML plugin for MSOffice carries out the non disruptive conversion to OOXML.

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Tags: apache eclipse opensource oss soa

Posted by: garyedwards

Government - Focus for an OS Desktop

Tue, 29 May 2007 16:52:25 -0000

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Government, to include Federal, State and Local, should be the prime focus for increasing open source desktop market share by vendors such as Novell, Redhat and Ubuntu. Why, because government is required to procure all product and services through an open, transparent and competitive process. As of today, few if any government organizations have complied with this requirement when it comes to purchases of desktop operating systems or productivity tools. In fact, until just recently there have not been competitive alternatives, but now there are. posted by garyedwards
Government, to include Federal, State and Local, should be the prime focus for increasing open source desktop market share by vendors such as Novell, Redhat and Ubuntu. Why, because government is required to procure all product and services through an open, transparent and competitive process. As of today, few if any government organizations have complied with this requirement when it comes to purchases of desktop operating systems or productivity tools. In fact, until just recently there have not been competitive alternatives, but now there are. posted by garyedwards

Tags: davinci government msoffice odf oss procurement

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