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Public Open Source Companies: Much Ado About Nothing?

The other day, in the post How Low Can Public Open Source Companies Go? I mentioned that Red Hat, Novell and Sun Microsystems now have such incredibly low market capitalizations that the independent existence of these open source leaders is threatened. The situation is substantially worse a few days later, with Red Hat's share price more than 20 percent lower than it was when I wrote the original post, starting to look like a penny stock. Some readers have suggested that Red Hat, in particular, is a nebulous entity that represents nothing in the end. Really?


How Low Can Public Open Source Companies Go?

While I remain in agreement with many observers who see the economic downturn as potentially very positive for open source, I have to wonder whether we're going to see some of the leadership open source companies swallowed up in all the financial carnage. Red Hat, Novell, and Sun Microsystems are all companies that I'd like to see continue their open source leadership without the meddling of huge corporate parents, but one has to wonder how cheap these companies can get in the public market before their independence is threatened.


Filling the Open Source Usability Testing Gap

Could open source software benefit from more usability testing? It sure seems so, and usability labs are heavily emphasized at big proprietary software companies, especially Microsoft.? In fact, early interface standards in Windows applications, such as common menu options, were largely driven by the experiences of usability testers. Here are some open source projects that are setting a good example when it comes to usability.


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Open source and the bottom line.....

Dell teams with Red Hat on enterprise Linux.....

Nine attitude problems in free and open software.....

Netbooks a challenge and opportunity for Linux.....

Novell and Sun as private companies?.....



Let's Set Reasonable Expectations for Netbooks

Techworld has an intereresting post up today about how Linux-based netbooks are becoming a big driver for business adoption of Linux. We've been covering how netbooks are helping fuel a relatively healthy market for new computer buying, but there are some naysayers. Reports are coming in that many people are returning the netbooks that they purchase. How solid is the netbook trend?


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Novell's third-quarter loss widens, but Linux booms by 30 percent.....

Google Code reverses its open source license ban. Mozilla's and Eclipse's Public Licenses get the nod.....

Four Twitter clients for Linux.....

What open sourcers can learn from the French....



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Novell as Microsoft's client state.....

Battling expensive textbooks with open source texts.....

Would Linux help Adobe pummel Microsoft?.....

Django on Jython: It's here.....

9 Linux myths debunked.....



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Check out Linus Torvalds' rant about security people .....

SpiderOak: Two gigs of online storage for free--and a Linux client.....

Linux 2.6.26 kernel update released.....

Justice is served: SCO ordered to pay Novell millions.....

Do Linux Penguinistas need just need to accept that the world is not ideal? .....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Novell has delivered its Q2 financial results. The company reported $30 million of product revenue from Open Platform Solutions of which $29 million was from Linux Platform Products--up a very healthy 31 percent year-over-year. As Matt Asay notes Novell still lags Red Hat, but enterprise Linux is a two-horse race again.....

Source Labs' Self-Support Suite now supports the open source Eclipse development environment.....

Can Rubinius, a Ruby virtual machine written in Ruby bring back excitement to the open source scripting language?.....



Interviews: Four Open Source Questions for Microsoft

Recently, I got the opportunity to pose a few questions to key people involved with open source efforts at Microsoft, including Sam Ramji (the recently promoted head of Microsoft's open source and Linux efforts), Ori Amiga (Microsoft Group Product Manager, Live Developer Platform), and Susan Hauser (General Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing). They offered up some thought-provoking input on what open source needs, Novell, China, Live Mesh, and other topics. I thank them for taking the time, and please read on for their comments.



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