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In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open
source software was "free like a puppy is free." Just as you can pick
out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can
download and use open source software without buying a single license. But
puppies become dogs, and dogs need food, toys, training and lots and lots of
love. Even with all this attention, there’s no guarantee your cuddly puppy
won’t develop a vicious streak. Will you need endless obedience classes and a chain
and muzzle to control it? The same goes for open source software. As soon as
you introduce open source into your organization, the real costs, commitments
and risks become clear. 
Aside from low prices, it's also cash flow and up-front loading of risk and money of traditional, on-premise projects that are driving more buyers to SaaS offerings. In an economic downturn, "do more with less" and quick ROI behavior become the norms. But wait, isn't that what open sou...
Thanks to a sketchy notice in the Official Journal of the European Union we now know a tad more about why Intel has taken the European Commission to court. Seems Intel is accusing the EC of making it the butt of a "discriminatory and partial" antitrust investigation because the EC won'...
AMD sent out a short sharp message Thursday morning saying that the way things are going it expects revenues from continuing operations this quarter to be ~25% lower than they were last quarter and that was only $1.585 billion. Its calculations do not include process technology license...
IBM is taking another shot at blowing Microsoft off the desktop and this time it’s got the foul economic winds at its back. In the name of cost cutting, IBM is proposing that companies virtualize their desktops and turn them into thin clients using Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise...
Oracle threw some data integrity protection code over the wall and it's been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel. It reportedly lets the Linux kernel utilize key data protection information for the first time in its life. It's also the first implementation of the T10 Protection Infor...
